Replacement decking spindles

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I'm looking to replace part of my decking fencing but can't seem to find the right spindle and balustrade. I've looked at Wickes, Jewsons and Homebase without any joy. Are there any stockists online who supply a wide variety of styles? (Decking was installed prior to house purchase a couple of years ago.)

It looks like the following but is 77cm in length and the square ends are 23cm in length:
http://www.wickes.co.uk/Traditional-Deck-Spindle/invt/540097

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

You could always.......

 

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Thanks for that but I tried Google before posting.

 

[Thermo]

most decent timber yeards or builders merchants will stock a variety and shoyuld be able to match them. They look very much like a richard burbidge traditional spindle

www.richardburbidge.co.uk

 

[Help]

Thanks Thermo. I will give a timber yard a visit. I have found similiar looking spindles, like the Wickes one but the difference is noticeable.

 

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Tried Travis Perkins, Buildbase and Jewsons. Tried a placed billed as a Timber Merchants but they made windows and doors and couldn't help.

Anyway, it does look like very like the Richard Burbidge colonial spindle (http://tinyurl.com/lcuptg) but it's short at one end by about 5mm and also long. I'm not sure whether the spindles would have been cut to size when the fencing were fitted. If they were they were machine cut.

On the off-chance that someone has the same, here's the dimensions I will be sending to some online places to see if they can match it.

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[Thermo]

are they definetly decking spindles. from the picture they look more like internal spindles that have been used on the deck

 

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Well they've been treated with something and comparing the external decking in Travis Perkins they have a similar look and feel, so my instinct is that they are exterior ones. To be honest, they could have come from anywhere, so the search does feel like a needle in the hay stack.

 

[Thermo]

my experiance from that photo says it looks like an internal one rather than a decking one

 

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Still struggling with this. The issue seems to be that the colonial decking spindle is a standard size (900 x 41 x 41mm) which would be fine except the shorter of the two square sections is 240mm where mine is 245mm. Am asking colleagues local to me to check their decking and measure it, with the hope that I can match the same and then approach their installer. Needle in a haystack.

 

[Thermo]

how many spindles are there on the existing run?

 

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Hi Thermo.

I am actually looking to make two extra fencing panels to act as gates to keep pets off the decking, so I need about 22 spindles.

 

[Thermo]

just trying to get my head around this one. give me an answer to the following

the ones you can get are 5mm shorter on the lower square section, that being the only difference?

how many existing runs are there?