Local prices on custom made metal railing seem extremely high to me. (Cost
of materials plus $55.00 per foot, plus $40.00 per drilled hole, plus,
plus, plus ...)

The only other alternative that I know about is very inexpensive crappy
metal railing from Lowes or Home Depot.

I would think that more substantial products coule be made where the end
user could purchase pieces and self-install the railing. These pieces
might be top rails, bottom rails, balusters, newel posts, rail end caps,
etc., etc.

Are such products made? How can I find out about/order them.

Pros/Cons of this type iron or aluminum railing?

Thanks.

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Local prices on custom made metal railing seem extremely high to me. (Cost
of materials plus $55.00 per foot, plus $40.00 per drilled hole, plus,
plus, plus ...)

The only other alternative that I know about is very inexpensive crappy
metal railing from Lowes or Home Depot.

I would think that more substantial products coule be made where the end
user could purchase pieces and self-install the railing. These pieces
might be top rails, bottom rails, balusters, newel posts, rail end caps,
etc., etc.

Are such products made? How can I find out about/order them.

Pros/Cons of this type iron or aluminum railing?

Thanks.

normally i would know this sort of thing but i cant quite think right
now so i guess ull just have to keep searching and asking other people

it doesnt seem that expensive really, does it?

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Local prices on custom made metal railing seem extremely high to me.
(Cost
of materials plus $55.00 per foot, plus $40.00 per drilled hole, plus,
plus, plus ...)

The only other alternative that I know about is very inexpensive crappy
metal railing from Lowes or Home Depot.

I would think that more substantial products coule be made where the end
user could purchase pieces and self-install the railing. These pieces
might be top rails, bottom rails, balusters, newel posts, rail end caps,
etc., etc.

Are such products made? How can I find out about/order them.

Pros/Cons of this type iron or aluminum railing?

Thanks.

Iron railing brings back so many memories...The house I grew up in had
ornated iron railings. I remember sanding, painting, and touching up.
There are houses in New Orleans that have ornate wrought iron railing that
is over a hundred years old. Maybe they kept it up or my folks were
obsessive about it. I would go for aluminum.

Local prices on custom made metal railing seem extremely high to me.

Yes. Market price of aluminum shapes is around $1.20/lb these days. You
will pay several times that at a distributor for the unfabricated stock.
And this will factor up again with fabrication.

Down here in Florida you have to have code-approved aluminum hurricane
shutters. These are nothing more than a $3 stock sheet of aluminum from
Alcoa run through a machine that puts a few corrugating bends in, a few
holes punched, and priced at about 20X the input sheet. What a racket.