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Aluminum Railings, With Glass or pickets
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Revised 09/30/02
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| This photo shows a continuous style railing with glass on a very nicely done deck that was built
by the homeowner. Note: All small photos with a blue border are a link to a "product page" that can
be downloaded and printed by the viewer. | 1 |
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| Thumbnail to the right shows a very nice older home on the water near Purdy, WA (Gig Harbor
area). This turned out to be a nice picture with the color contrasts against the white picket railing, take
a look. | 2 |
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| This photo shows an intermittent top rail in both glass and pickets as does the one below which
is done with slightly larger posts. | 3 |
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| This photo shows the intermittent top rail plus a waterproof deck surface (see our vinyl section) | 4 |
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| This photo shows also shows a waterproof deck surface (vinyl) along with railings | 5 |
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| This photo shows an extensive deck remodel (with waterproof surface) using a small profile railing system mounted on the side (fascia mounting) which gives a clean look and no penetrations of the deck surface. | 6 |
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| This small photo links to a product page showing three large detailed photos of the project where aluminum railing and a waterproof vinyl membrane were used for a nice end result. View is to the West towards the Narrows Airport over Puget Sound and looking at the Olympic Mountains. | 7 |
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| This photo is of a new home in Federal Way, Washington with a view to the west toward the
Olympic Mountains looking over Puget Sound | 8 |
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| This shows a commercial marina done with the "Intermittent Top Rail" style of railing. Loading
is different and we had to do much more anchoring to meet code requirements. The results were very
nice. This is only a small part of the job. | 9 |
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| This photo is of an older home in North Tacoma showing a "Railing Kit" installed by the
homeowner. Their water view is to the north over Commencement Bay. | 10 |
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| Photo here shows two levels of our "continuous top rail system" on a waterproof deck. The home
sits above Ruston way on the Tacoma waterfront near the old Dickman Mill with a beautiful view of the
bay towards Seattle. | 11 |
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| This photo shows a fascia (side) mount on a older home undergoing extensive remodeling in North
Tacoma. | 12 |
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| This house shows the most extensive railing kit we have sold to date. Homeowner did a
great job on a difficult site with top and side mounted posts using glass and pickets. This photo is only a
small part of the project. | 13 |
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| A double deck with octagonal profile on two levels and with railings around the interior pool. Great view of the
sound towards Steilacoom, WA and the 2001 earthquake epicenter where we were when the quake hit while installing
glass on another project. Used pickets on the exterior stairs and glass on the deck. |
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| Another waterfront home. This one was on Day Island and included an upper deck with glass and a gate, a bulkhead with a
glass railing on top of it plus a gate to the beach. One of the photos shows the epicenter of the 2001 quake between Anderson Island
and the Nisqually Delta. We were installing glass when the quake hit. |
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| A shot of a roof deck and railing done by the homeowner in Burien just west of SeaTac Airport. |
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| A nice job done by the homeowner and his boys consisting of landscaping with a lot of stonework, two waterproofed decks and a picket railing system. | 17 |  |
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| A tough job done by a homeowner in Tacoma. A side mounted system with lots of angles, levels and stairs. Results are very nice. | 18 |  |
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| A continuous top rail system with glass and pickets in Tacoma showing a top and side mounted post on the stairs and
one of two gates, one for the family pet and one for a fire escape. | 19 |
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| A continuous top rail system with glass and pickets on Vashon Island that shows pretty well the post placement on the deck, the continuous top rail and a transition to a stairway with pickets. One of the better set of photos of a deck with this system. | 20 |
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| A continuous top rail system in brown with glass on a high cantilevered deck (was a long way to the ground on a steep
hillside) with an aluminum diamond plate deck surface. One of the more interesting photos of a deck. Job was on Mercer Island
near Seattle.
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| A pencil line drawing (size=69KB) of three styles or brands of side mounted base configurations
shown to scale on a 2 x 10 rim joist with 1-1/2" deck material. "A" is a 1-1/2" post, "B" is a 2-3/8" post
and "C" is a 2-1/2" post showing a separate mounting bracket.
These depend on brand wanted and other considerations that need to be discussed prior to any final
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| A pencil line drawing (size=90KB) of a typical top mounted railing post. | 23 |  |
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| A page showing post, top rail and some anchoring clip details for you to understand the various products available for your deck and how it all fits together. | 24 |
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| A page showing a complicated kit installed by the homeowner in the Browns' Point area of Federal Way, WA
Black glass was installed for a great affect. | 25 |
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| This is a 3 story deck on the waterfront in Purdy near Gig Harbor, WA. Railings in white outline the three decks very
well with the house color in the background.
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| This page shows a side mounted continuous top rail system in brown on a very well built deck in Clyde Hill, WA just west of
downtown Bellevue. Deck surface is iron wood that has been sealed and presents a very luxurious finished look to the deck addition
with the brown railing framing the deck and clear glass accenting the overall look.
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| This page shows a system around a pool in Gig Harbor, WA. The railing is the heaviest we sell, height was 48 inches for code and the post spacing was 48 inches. Gates were customized to match the necessary details. Picket would have looked very nice too in place of the glass, but you wouldn't have had the windbreak that was needed on this site.
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| This photo shows a color sample sheet from one of our suppliers. It is for the larger flat top system as seen in Photos #16, 19, 20, 21, 27and 28. A round top is also available as seen in the stairs on #20 and in the parts on the right side of photo #24.
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| This photo shows kit installed by the homeowner. It is a side mounted system installed around the roof of an attached garage which made very good use of the space. They ended up with a great place for two young children and the family pet to play and had a very nice place to dine out in style with a view of the Sound in Tacoma, WA just below the narrows. One photo is towards Fox Island with the Olympic Mountains in the background and the other toward Steilacoom and more islands. It is the same large top rail system as seen in Photos #16, 19, 20, 21, 27and 28 and that used in our cable systems. A round top is also available as seen in the stairs on #20 and in the parts on the right side of photo #24.
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| This job was in Steilacoom, WA and was a large remodel a part of which was a waterproof deck/car port roof and the railing system shown here. The use of trellis panels on the carport roof and end of the long deck combined with the picket railing system resulted in a very nice finished job. Owner is very happy.
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| This is another of our kits installed by the homeowner. He removed the old deck surface and railings and went back a new surface with the aluminum railings. With the accents, flowers, etc. it is a very nice looking job. The owner is very happy with the finished project.
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| This style of picket system was selected since there had been an earlier addition using the same brand
and the homeowner wanted to keep things the same. We added the standard posts and used the supporting columns for
the canopy to fasten the top and bottom horizontals as needed. This can be done with existing wooden columns also.
Note the stairway landing and turn. The post on the inside of the turn has to be extra tall to adjust for riser postition.
It is best to keep the fall-line of the toes of the upper stair section to hit the post at approx. 36" above the
deck to make the transition down the stairs.
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| This was a kit installed by the homeowner surrounding a pool near Bellevue, WA done in late summer of 2002.
Special attention was given to using a simple to install system that would meet local building codes. Homeowner did
a nice job.
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| This is a railing system that we are bidding on a condo in Hawaii as of 12/02. We believe it is the
best for the application for several reasons that we have discussed with the owners. Photo inserted for his use.
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