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Home Improvement > Stairs > How to Install a Wood Stair Railing Kit

Learn how to replace old wrought-iron stair railings with beautiful wood banisters, balusters and railings.

Use a bar level and pencil to transfer the shape of the newel post's rectangular face to the opposite wall. Find and mark the center of that transferred rectangle.

Center the stained oak rosette on the rectangle's center and trace the round shape on the wall. The rosette is a piece of decorative oak molding that came with the railing system -- the handrail will actually terminate at the rosette and attach to it. The manufacturer pre-drilled holes to attach it to the wall and to mount the handrail.

Position the rosette in the traced circle with the larger bolt hole upwards, insert the toggle bolt, and tap it with a hammer to make a reference mark on the wall behind.

Bore a hole at the reference mark that is big enough to slip the toggle through the wallboard.

Insert the bolt through the rosette and screw on the toggle. Pinch the toggle closed and push it through the hole you just bored. The toggle will flip open inside the wall.

Hold the rosette away from the wall as you use a power drill/driver to tighten the bolt. Holding it away from the front of the wall brings the toggle in contact with the back of the wall to stop it from spinning as you tighten the bolt. Once you have secured the bolt, the toggle will brace against the back of the wall and hold the rosette firmly in position.

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