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DriedChalk t1_irbd5fe wrote

I feel like the railing should really be attached to something more secure than the plasterboard

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SchillMcGuffin t1_irbe7ry wrote

I agree. I had a similar railing (in a house constructed in the mid-'70s, I guess anchoring railings in drywall was the style back then), and I cut a portion out of the dry wall to put a cross piece between the rafters behind it, then anchored the railing to the cross piece and restored the drywall.

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yeteee t1_irdydb8 wrote

Rafters are usually the pieces of wood in a roof. I think you meant studs. Outside of that, that's exactly what OP should do, proper and safer way than anything else. It is just a week end project too.

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SchillMcGuffin t1_irf8d9a wrote

The railing was at the edge of a loft, so the anchorage was to a steeply sloping ceiling. They would indeed have been studs if it had been a vertical wall.

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yeteee t1_irfeq70 wrote

Now, that makes sense. Out of context, it was weird.

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