Thanks for the awesome video! The railing looks amazing. Great work.

Wonderful DIY installation video😄

thx very informative,great job!

You just saved me a lot of time and money with this video. Thank you so much!!

Thank you so much! I'm building a deck for a customer and wanted to do the cables for her project. Now I know how, and I can save some bucks as well.

This is great, I plan on rebuilding my deck in about 2 months and I'll be using this for sure!

Beautiful

So glad I stumbled across your page. We're down by the State Park in Porter IN and our backyard backs up to 5 acres of woods. We love our view and now we'll enjoy it even more. Also love the tip of securing the underside of the deck in your other video because we have so many critters too. PS--Love the makeover inside!!

I love the Yogi Bear Shirt. Is that Lake Warrior Swag?

That looks awesome buddy great instructional video! I'm gonna do this soon for my home's back deck. What I like that you did compared to other instructional videos was use the portable drill press on the stairs. May go that route if I don't have the lady around to spot the 45° for me.

Hi, we are trying to buy supplies for cable railing for wood posts on our stairs. They only sell 30 and 45* protectors sleeves, but our stairs are ~38*. Do you think the protectors they sell will still work? I've called and asked and they didn't know the answer for some reason and cannot find this answer anywhere else for any other product but it's unreasonable to assume all stairs are exactly 30*.

Great video… thank you! Did you use pressure treated 4x4 s or cedar?

How would you do a 90 deg turn on a corner post? thanks! GREAT VIDEO! Dave

Thanks for the video! Redoing my deck now and interested in what the handrail design was. Is that a 2x6 top with 2x4 underneath?

Thanks for the video! I've seen a lot of recommendations saying you shouldn't have more than 4' between deck posts to limit sag in the wire. Seems like yours are further apart. Notice any issues with that?

Nice work! What brand of Parts did you use for the cables and fittings?

Great video. The Milescraft drill mate drill press you show is calibrated at 45, 60, 75 and 90 degrees. How to you set it for 30 degrees?

About to do this for my back deck as well. The link you put for the crimp tool you used looks like it’s for the cable pass throughs. But did you use a hydraulic crimp Tool?

Guy looks like Mikey from Orange County Choppers. Of course Mikey could never pull this off. I built a !6’ X 24’ deck with cable railings. 1st you did an excellent job of showing how to do it. 2nd a few things I did slightly different then you. And no mistake your method is just as correct. I used mostly Muzata tools and components off Amazon. I used a aluminum CNC’d template to layout my hole locations then drilled the holes using a jig ( drill press as you call it ). I held the jig in place with 2 hand clamps, then attached the drill and drilled the hole, removed the drill, then the jig. Worked great but took forever to do 320 times. The jig you made is definitely faster. I used tensioners on both ends of all the cables. I have runs of 24’ and 16’ so wanted to make sure I had enough adjustment if needed. It’s been thru 2 Michigan winters & 3rd summer, I have not had to adjust the tension of the cables. I used 316 black vinyl coated and love it! As you said no maintenance. As far as cost cable railings are 20-40% of other options of standard railing components. On the deck itself it’s on 6x6 ground contact post, 40” deep in concrete. 2x12” beams, 2x10” joist. The deck boards are all 16’ long one piece boards. Pain in back side to find enough underaged pieces to do it. Deck boards are held down using the “Camo” deck screw system. Again looks great pain the ^$@ to do but worth it. Then I mounted the railing post on OWT wrought iron black power coated base’s from Home Depot. Expensive but worth it. Again very nice video Sir. Well done, thank you.

Fantastic work, please forgive me but I cannot see the links etc. would you mind posting them? I’d love to get my hands on all this gear.

I'd like to get the crimping too you recommended but your link above is to the 30 degree pass through connectors. What brand of crimping tool would you recommend?

Did you just replace the spindles in your existing railing with cable, or did you replace the posts as well?

Do the tensioners go on both ends of each run? If not, what goes on the other end?

You suggest using 3/16" SS Cable; however, the links for the tension insets all state 1/8th" . I don't find any that are 3/16". Did you mix the 3/16" cable with the 1/8th insets?

Awesome diy and video. One question. How did you do your corners?

Hello, nice work ! I'm looking at the tensioners and it says for 2x2 wood or metal We are using 4x4 for the posts....is that not what you used? does this not work for that sizing?

Could you explain how you did the end of the cable to tighten it?

I wish you would have shown more detail on the crimp end and tightening. Best how to video so far on this but I’d liked more detail

Great job! The links to the supplies in the video description don't match the pictures of the products in the actual video. Which do you recommend I follow, the links or the pics of the products in video?

Super. Thanks for posting this video. Only one issue - looks like when you use the drill press, you don’t set the base on the lumber then “press” the drill bit through. I think you basically eyeballed the angle to be aligned with the base of the drill press. But it looks like it came out ok. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Respectfully. And, again, thanks! Looks great!

Hi! Can you tell me which portable drill press you used?

How do you uncrimp something ? Do you just cut the wire and get a new piece of hardware?

3/16 is 1/16 more than 1/8. 304 is a grade. 1/8 and 1/16 are sizes. You can’t get a 1/16 in a 1/8.

How did you handle the 90 degree corners of the deck?

I’m gathering info on doing cable railing as well. Could you tell me, now that it’s been a year, how your cable is holding up?

I did not see how you drilled the 30 degree (stair) to horizontal (stair landing) transition. I assume you drilled both horizontal and 30 degree half way, just wanted help clarifying.

Great step by step...thank you! I'm using these tips to create a pool fence to keep the grand kids safe. I feel better running the cables vertically as then they can't climb the wires as a ladder. Would you recommend lag to lag as I will be running cables vertically? Otherwise I was thinking of using the tension bolts on the bottom railing and running the cable up, through the top railing across 3.5" then down to another lag. A thought would be to clad the top railing so the cable cross over was hidden. Any thoughts? Also, have you ever used a one way clamp? I saw it being used on a This Old House video at 5:10. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rNWggLxkl6-YZ3U.html

Looks good, wonder about 'the code', however, looks like a child could climb over.