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Sounds logical, but the upstairs ones (3 doors and done 5 years ago) have never cracked. They were glued and I think I used 2 part. Also used bedec water based satinwood this time instead of Dulux water based - which should be better by all accounts - so there’s lots of differences to choose...

Yes, it’s the mitres that are cracking on mine. I even said to the joiner to use glue, but they didn’t - could I squeeze some in now? I had a big space like that on a couple of my architraves, and ended up using a foam noodle filler that was pushed into the gap then caulked in place with Dunlop...

By blow, does that materialise in cracks? This is what’s happened on the architrave downstairs, but I put it down to the mitres not being glued

I’ve got this one

Why not ’no more nails’? I’m about to put new spindles on my landing (builders didn’t meet building regs so I’ve taken out their work to add some more). Mine does have the rebate, so the spindles go in and the fillet spacers will be cut smaller. I was going to use no more nails to glue the...

It's an upwards journey, rising one step at a time

Thanks for the recommendations and advise on process, I'll follow this. However, I already have toupret wood filler (would this suffice instead of Red Devil?) I've also got a load of Dunlop Flexible Acrylic filler, which seems to work very well elsewhere, so will stick with that for now. No need...

Definitely would use caulk rather than sealant. But, I was toying with the idea of wood filler or 2 part filler. Wondering what others use for this job.

I’ve just primed my newly fitted spindles, what do I do about these small gaps at bottom (and top if I’m being picky). Should I use caulk, wood filler, or other? Thanks

Really appreciated all your help with this, great community, so thanks. Thought I could lift a floor board to see if there's anything to attach to, but it's not accessible. I don't know the thickness of the plasterboard and the worry with using the last one above would be that it pulls the...

I still can’t understand how a plug of sorts would work. As if screwing like that, won’t the handrail just be relying on the screw head to stabilise it? The thread won’t touch the wood, and will barely touch the plug. I’m not sure about that one. I don’t think the rail will come out any more...

yes, that’s right (photo attached)

Thanks. Other half is liking the trim idea best atm, so probably go with that unless anyone on here can think of a reason not to?

That was my first thought, but if I drill through the handrail and push a plug in, there will then be a big hole where the screw will go....so it won't hold - doesn't the plug need to be in before the handrail is attached?

It was tight to the wall, so 9mm gap now