Dado Angles at Stairs

[edines33]

Hi we are trying to get a dado rail up and i am sure that this is a common question. Im not asking coz I am a girl who is trying to get things done but I am truely stuck!!


how do you get the correct angles for the rail to go up the stairs???

this lil jobs been waiting to be done since forever and I would rarther it get finished today as it is really driving me nuts!!


any advice will be greatfully welcome

thanks

Emma
x

 

[Diyisfun]

Draw a line at the height you want the dado on the wall
Draw a line at the height you want the dado on the Stairs.

Where they intersect is the angle.

 

[Steve]

If you have a protractor (angle measuring thing often found in a kids stationery set), use this to find the angle of intersection, then half it to find the engle at which you need to cut the mitres.

When I did our stairs, I had an external corner, top and bottom of the slope, so I had to cut a small "fillet" to fill the gap and make the mitres fit and meet properly.

 

[masona]

See "Step 2" here