Couldn't really find a thread on this so....Want to install a wood decorative handrail on the outside wall going up to the bedroom. Anyone have experience or info on this like where to purchase etc...?Thanks in advance.

You can buy handrail and brackets at any Lowes, Home Depot, Menards, etc. The bigger problem is finding something inside the RV of any substance to attach them to.

I want to do this too but I can't find a stud or solid point to mount onto. Tried a stub finder but that didn't work so I follow this thread.

Unless there was one built in, there is probably nothing in an outside wall to attach to. Mostly the walls are some type of laminated foam with a thin hardboard sheet on both sides. Very little or no framing at all. Suggest attaching a nice well-finished hardwood board to the wall with good adhesive and a few short mollies, then attaching handrail to that.

You might have to install an exposed backer board. This involves making a nicely finished board that span the entire area where the hand rail will be mounted. I have done then in 3/4" Oak with nicely routered edges and a nice stain and urethane finish. This board is screwed to anything and everything that's structural in the wall. It then becomes the mounting surface for the hand rail brackets. You may have seen something similar in public bathrooms, as it's a common technique for securely mounting handicap grab rails to an existing wall, where studs do not end up in places that would be suitable for mounting the bar, and there is no blocking installed inside the wall, between studs. In another case, I built a custom handicap entrance rail for our motorhome. It is a complicated affair made of 1/2" black steel gas pipe, bent with a conduit bender. The railing is attached to the floor with pipe "floor flanges" and the upper end is welded to a piece of 1/8" thick steel flat stock that spans from a window flange to a door flange, where it is securely screwed tight.

Johno02 wrote:Unless there was one built in, there is probably nothing in an outside wall to attach to. Mostly the walls are some type of laminated foam with a thin hardboard sheet on both sides. Very little or no framing at all. Suggest attaching a nice well-finished hardwood board to the wall with good adhesive and a few short mollies, then attaching handrail to that.Good info...thanks.

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Johno02
Explorer
Nov 30, 2016
Unless there was one built in, there is probably nothing in an outside wall to attach to. Mostly the walls are some type of laminated foam with a thin hardboard sheet on both sides. Very little or no framing at all. Suggest attaching a nice well-finished hardwood board to the wall with good adhesive and a few short mollies, then attaching handrail to that.
Colo_Native
Explorer
Nov 30, 2016
I want to do this too but I can't find a stud or solid point to mount onto. Tried a stub finder but that didn't work so I follow this thread.
wing_zealot
Explorer
Nov 30, 2016
You can buy handrail and brackets at any Lowes, Home Depot, Menards, etc. The bigger problem is finding something inside the RV of any substance to attach them to.

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