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Locate Wall Studs for Secure Mounting — Locate Wall Studs

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How to Install a Handrail on a Plaster Wall · Step 1 of 5

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Before drilling, use a stud finder to locate a wall stud for at least one of the handrail brackets, preferably the top one, to ensure maximum support. If the exterior siding (like wood siding) prevents accurate stud finding, locate the stud from the interior wall and transfer the measurement to the exterior. Mark the center of the stud on the wall. For the other bracket, if a stud isn't available, alternative anchors will be used.

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now for handrails it's very important to have proper support and therefore hitting a stud is definitely more desirable than just wall anchoring it down luckily for me i did find one stud that was in perfect position for the top bracket now because i have wood siding it's hard to find a wood stud with a stud finder however that's why i went on the interior of the house and actually found where that stud is

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