CHR Fence & Rail Hand Rails for Outdoor Steps, 5 Step Handrail & Indoor Stair Railing Kit, Railings for Outdoor Steps and Hand Rails for Seniors for Porch Railing & Deck Hand Rail, 4 to 5 Steps

I don't have much experience with construction or renovations, but you will need an angle grinder, cut off tool or die grinder to cut the metal bars. They are thin though, so it's not too difficult and most tools should succeed. They offer you screws for wood and plastic and anchors for cement/masonry. You will need a hammer drill to drill into cement. To note, is that the anchors are permenant so if you want, you can buy tapcons and washers to make the railing installation not permanent. We had an issue during the installation where it looked like one of the legs were cut short, but after we called customer service they assisted us very quickly. Super impressed! The wrought iron is good quality and well packaged, but there was some rust inside. I tried to file it down and spray paint it but time will tell how long it will last. I figure at least 5-7years. Overall a very good railing system for the price. Looks fantastic and is solid! and easy to accomplish if you don't have alot of experience. I recommend this product!

absolutely love this rail, easy to assemble, very strong, looks lovely and has helped me so much getting up the steps to my house

This railing is much sturdier than anticipated. Comes with good quality hardware and screws that actually anchor the railing into the stairs (ie: not too short or whimpy)

It is sturdy and looks good. You need two people to position the support poles to mark the holes for drilling and for installing. Good instructions. The drill bit is not SDS which was needed for hammer drill. Says SDS drill bit avail on request in instructions. Wish they had included that with parts. Leveler tool was not in kit but we had one.

I bought this for a "quick rail" project on a set of stairs. First impressions: a well made railing but from cheap materials. You get what you pay for and in this case it is an even trade. If you are looking for a high end rail on a multi-million dollar property this isn't it. However, for a backyard set of steps it is good enough. As other reviewers have stated this is a complete kit sans tools and while true that is part of the problem but more on that later. I would rate this as an intermediate level project. If all you have at home is a no name drill and all in one bag of tools this is NOT the project for you, especially if you are installing this in concrete. The included instructions are poor at best and wrong at times. For example the instructions state that the covers can be pulled apart so they can be installed at the end. However, the covers I got were one piece. So I had to take the railing apart after install was finished to install the covers. The finish is also poor quality and easily damaged. I managed to scratch it just by sliding the covers down the pillars. The rest of this review is based on my experience installing in concrete. YMMV for wood installs. While the kit comes with everything you need including a ruler, pencil, and a level they are all low quality and cheaply made. The first problem I ran into (which started a cascade of major headaches) was the drill bit. I honestly didn't expect much from the drill bit but incorrectly assumed/hoped I could get at least eight decent holes out of it. Boy was I wrong. I got four good holes out of it by the fifth and sixth hole the drill bit had gotten dull and slipped way deep into the chuck. This caused two issues: one the holes drilled were shallower then I thought and two the drill bit got jammed good into the chuck. I had to spend a good two hours getting the bit out of my chuck so I could use a real concrete bit. Being a "measure twice cut once" kind of a guy I double checked my hole depth with the provided pencil/depth guide. Except that the pencil doesn't actually have the depth guide printed on it. Instead they cheaped out again and simply wrapped the pencil in a printed plastic. This plastic starts slipping after a few uses and gives you a false sense of security. This along the slipped bit gives you shallow holes which cause problems when you install the concrete anchors. Now with high quality anchors you could work around this. The anchors would not go deep enough so after install you can take off the excess thread with an angle grinder and just re-tread if needed. However, again because you are getting barely "good enough" items the anchors will bend/fold under the hammer blows. Good luck at this point getting the anchors out or getting the nuts on/off. So a two hour project easily becomes a two day slug fest. Look I get it when a "good drill bit" costs $10 it is impractical to include it in a kit costing $100 and I am sure it makes the kit more approachable to a DIYer but the buyers need to beware. TL;DR: If everything goes smoothly and you don't run into any surprises this will work fine. However, as in most project there will be surprises and you are best to be prepared. At the bare minimum I recommend a high quality hammer drill (which most DIYers will not have), a decent level, and purchasing your own concrete drill bit. I think the anchors are good enough as long as you have straight neat holes (hence the investment in a good drill bit).