Shaky staircase handrail

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seamus357

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We had a new staircase installed in our home a few months ago. The stairs looks beautiful, but the handrail is very shaky at the bottom. The handrail ends in a spiral (monkey's tail). The buider said this is always the case with this type of handrail. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice about how we tighten it? It really is very loose.
 
Yep. That's the type of scroll we have. Our one shakes fairly badly when you give it a little shove. I don't think this is right for spiral/scroll handrails.
 
seamus357 said:
We had a new staircase installed in our home a few months ago. The stairs looks beautiful, but the handrail is very shaky at the bottom. The handrail ends in a spiral (monkey's tail). The buider said this is always the case with this type of handrail. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice about how we tighten it? It really is very loose.
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I would suspect that your 'builder' has not glued the balistrads in place.

If he had done so they would not be moving.

If it was me I would get him back dis-assemble the stairs and glue it back together.
 
There is no reason, other than poor workmanship or assembly, why this type of handrail would be any shakier than any other design.

We used to have them in our old house in Dublin and they were rock solid, they even survived years of our sliding down them, hanging out of the spindles, the usual kids stuff.
 
I've never seen any handrails rattle unless they've been poorly fitted, as in not glued properly.
 
If its a monkeys tail it should have a threaded bolt through the centre spindle, it need to be re-fitted properly.
 
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