CABLE RAILING
1 SURFACE-MOUNT POSTS
I first determined the post locations while I was framing the deck, and I added extra blocking to fasten the surface-mounted posts. When the decking was done, I positioned the posts over the blocking, fastened them with structural screws and plumbed them with the supplied setscrews. Then I hid the screws by sliding on the post base trim.
2 INSTALL THE RAIL AND SPACERS
Trim the rails with a miter saw so they’re 1 in. shorter than the distance between posts. Then fasten a rail bracket to each end, with the cable spacers attached equidistant along the bottom of the rail. Level the rail between the posts, then predrill the posts and fasten the rail.
3 FEED THE CABLE
This Deckorators ALX Contemporary Cable Railing System consists of stainless steel cable with a threaded bolt on one end. I fed the cable end through the posts and the rail spacers, then attached a locking nut onto the threaded end.
4 TENSION AND TRIM THE CABLE
At the opposite end, I twisted the provided Pull-Lock fitting onto the cable. I pushed the fitting into the predrilled hole in the post and pulled the cable tight while holding the fitting in place. This Pull-Lock fitting locks onto the cable to hold the tension. Thread and tighten all the cables, starting from the center and working toward the top and bottom alternately. To tension them, hold the threaded stud in place with a hex key and turn the locking nut. Trim the excess cable and threaded stud, and cover both ends with the threaded caps included.