Fence Railing in WA?

[LoriB]

Hi everyone! *Ü*

I've been searching everywhere for the railing to make those 3-compartment glass storage bins, but can't find them at any Home D. or Lowe's near me (Maple Valley, WA). Does anyone know where I can find it locally?

Thanks!
Lori

[Bubbyanne]

Hi Lori,
I live in the Tri-Cities and ended up getting some at Muffet & Sons. Nice people. Not exactly near you but try some local fence people and see what you find.
Here's a snippet of a post I wrote in another thread about what I did to get some fencing for my glass storage.

I went to Home Depot and found the vinyl fence rails. In our area, it cost $16.89 for a 16ft length and we'd have to cut it in the parking lot (they won't cut plastic for you) just to get it to fit in our full sized chevy blazer and get it home. It would cost about $80.00 to get as many pieces as I need.

So I did some calling around to fencing places, just to see if I could get scrap pieces. I found a place that will sell me 3ft pieces for $1.25 each and we can fit them in our vehicle! In addition they'd said they could cut and clean it for me for a little more. I didn't even ask how much because we can do that ourselves. So I'm getting 75 feet of 2X6 vinyl fence rail for $31.25.

Here's my whole post if you want to look, there's a link at the bottom to make a tool caddy from the left over scrap pieces.
http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/sh...8&postcount=49
I hope you find someone who puts up vinyl fences in your area and get some scrap too. Many of the pieces I got were quite a bit longer than 3 feet so I was able to get more out of what they sold me than anticipated.
Best of luck

[EaglesLegacy]

Huge stack of fence rails in our local Home Depot in Liberty Lake (Spokane) Wa.

[BBB]

I know Ziggys carries it also here in Spokane. CIndy I am right across the river from you. Another thing to try is to call Fencing companies and ask them about their scraps.

[Kevan]

Originally Posted by LoriB

Hi everyone! *Ü*

I've been searching everywhere for the railing to make those 3-compartment glass storage bins, but can't find them at any Home D. or Lowe's near me (Maple Valley, WA). Does anyone know where I can find it locally?

Thanks!
Lori

They have it at the HD in Aberdeen. I bought was just there.

[Vanityfaire]

Did you try McLendon's Hardware. They are family owned and may have it. I live in Kent. Hi neighbor.

[artsyuno]

Contact a nearby Lowe's store. They'll order it for you.

[EaglesLegacy]

BBB, we should get together some time.

[LoriB]

Thanks everyone for all your helpful info! I just got back from vacation, so sorry if I couldn't get back to check this thread sooner.

BubbyAnne—I'll definitely have to check out your tool caddy idea, but I couldn't find it with that link. If you wouldn't mind emailing me at ashlyndesign@comcast.net, maybe we could get it to work?

Vanityfaire—I'm going to try that McLendon's place this week and see if I can snag some, thanks so much!

*Ü* Lori

[Bubbyanne]

Hi Lori,
Here's the actual image of the tool caddy that Joanie (Flaming Idiot at WC and Imelt4U here @ LE) made, taken from that thread.



Here is one of the two I made for myself. (front and side view)
This one is for my tools the other is temporarily holding some glass.
As you can see I added magnet strips on the side to hold my smaller tools that might get lost inside the caddy compartments. I now use the bottom long compartments (empty in the pic) to hold my punties and chop sticks. Oh and it's a lot fuller now as these images are old and I've gotten a ton of tools now.
Sorry for the lousy images, it's all I had right off hand.

[Kevan]

Originally Posted by Bubbyanne

Hi Lori,
Here's the actual image of the tool caddy that Joanie (Flaming Idiot at WC) made, taken from that thread.

Ooo...I needs me that. I'm making one of those. Thanks for showing that.

[Bubbyanne]

Pretty cool huh Kevan,
It's so nice to have all my tools organized and the best thing was I didn't have to cut any pieces especially for these caddies I made because they were the scrap from my glass storage. It just worked out that the pieces were the right size.
Kudos to Joanie for showing these in that thread. Really quite inventive of her, I must say.

[LoriB]

Yeah! Thanks so much for posting the pics here! I'm hoping to pick up some railing this weekend and my hubby has already been warned I've got a long "honey do" list for him! LOL Great idea for storing and sorting all the little rod scraps I've been collecting!
*Ü* Lori

[LoriB]

Oops! I forgot to ask...I haven't decided whether to cut my rails down to 12" or 13" lengths. Do you guys have an opinion as to which is easier to store you glass in—do you like it hanging out a tad, or is it best to put the entire rod inside to avoid dust??
Thanks!

[Bubbyanne]

I cut mine 13" so I wouldn't have any rods sticking out. I'm a clutz and didn't want to be knocking my hand on them. Mine were cut from scrap so I could cut them that long because I was going to have left over pieces anyway. I've had no trouble getting my rods out either.

I think most cut theirs in 12" because the rails come in 16 foot lengths and you can get the most out of your purchase that way. I could be wrong though, it's been known to happen before.

[teachertracey]

I couldn't find that fence railing here, but I will say that rain gutters work very, very well,and they're cheap.

[LoriB]

Yippee! Just wanted to let everyone know I found some in the Lacey Home Depot store, and they even cut it in half for me to put in the car! ;-D

[Bubbyanne]

Glad you found some. You'll have to share a pic of your storage once you're done and maybe even once you've loaded it all up.
Have fun!

[tiggybubba]

I have mine cut 12" but my cabinet is 14" deep. That way if some are 13" i wont snag them when I walk by.