Measuring the Distance Between Porch Spindles
Saturday, September 23rd, 2006|
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When I was building my new front porch, installing the spindles was one of the last things I had to do. Luckily, I have a very good eye and there were no curveballs. I spaced the spindles at the minimum gap code allowed…4 inches. They lined up as close to perfect as anyone can expect for a nice country style porch. I knew there was a more defined way to do this, but didn’t really need to look into it because of my master craftsmanship (haha).
Well, there is a proper way and here it is. Bob wrote a wonderful post on how to do it with a variety of alternatives to choose from as well as the exact measurements necessary. Good job Bob and William! Funny, I don’t remember learning about any “Inter-spindle gap” growing up…hmmm.

