A cap usually refers to something that goes on top of
something else. You wear a baseball cap on top of your head and use a
bottle opener to remove the cap from the top of the bottle.
When building a stairway handrail system, a cap can
refer to two different objects.
1. A cap can be a piece of finish building material that runs at an
angle, vertical or horizontal. Most solid drywall guardrails will use a
1 x 6 to finish the top of the wall off.
2. A cap can also be a decorative object that would be placed on top of
a post or other parts of the stairway and handrail.
It's hard to imagine, but a few 10 dollar post caps can take an ordinary
stairway and turn it into something extraordinary. If you're planning on
building a fence, staircase or decorative handrail, go down to your
local lumber yard and see if they have any caps that you can use for
your project.
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