dado rail up stairs

[JohnD]

And if you really can't make them join up elegantly, put a stop-end on each. A half-round end might look good, if you do a square one, chamfer off the edges.

 

[masona]

I'm guessing the starting point of the angle at the bottom of the staircase is wrong.

 

[Diyisfun]

If the dado rail is to go up a stairway, measure the required height for the rail at the points (top and bottom of the stairs) where the skirting board changes direction for the stairway, and use a chalked line between these marks to set the line for the rail.

The above was taken from http://www.practicaldiy.com/carpentry/dado_rails/dado_rail.php

 

[splinter]

If the dado rail is to go up a stairway, measure the required height for the rail at the points (top and bottom of the stairs) where the skirting board changes direction for the stairway, and use a chalked line between these marks to set the line for the rail.

The above was taken from http://www.practicaldiy.com/carpentry/dado_rails/dado_rail.php[/QUOTE]

That will not work and is not a very accurate way of marking out a stairway .the measurement on the stairs should be 90degrees of the angle of the staicase .Simple as that

 

[Diyisfun]

Splinter wrote

That will not work and is not a very accurate way of marking out a stairway .the measurement on the stairs should be 90degrees of the angle of the staicase

90 degrees of the angle will give a vertical line.
Diyisfun wrote:

If the dado rail is to go up a stairway, measure the required height for the rail at the points (top and bottom of the stairs) where the skirting board changes direction for the stairway, and use a chalked line between these marks to set the line for the rail.

This gives the height of the dado

 

[splinter]

Splinter wrote

That will not work and is not a very accurate way of marking out a stairway .the measurement on the stairs should be 90degrees of the angle of the staicase

90 degrees of the angle will give a vertical line.
Diyisfun wrote:

If the dado rail is to go up a stairway, measure the required height for the rail at the points (top and bottom of the stairs) where the skirting board changes direction for the stairway, and use a chalked line between these marks to set the line for the rail.

This gives the height of the dado

A measurement at 90 degrees of the staircase will give a paraell line (which is right) not a veritical line, no where in your post does it mention a measurement taken at 90 degrees of the staircase

 

[Diyisfun]

Splinter..Dont shot the messenger, I sent an extract & link from a web page. As reading the post the poster seemed confused.
Both ways will work.
When I did mine, I measured at 90 to the stairs & where it bisected the dado that was the change in direction.
I am not a pro, just a meticulous DIYer (well was this house finished now)