This thread was driving me nuts so I swung by tonight. It is definitely stock flat bar (sorry - left my tape measure at home, normally have it with me in my backpack...), with rounded ends by hand. It is also not just re-purposed scrap material - it's an engineered solution.
My bet is that BuildingScout has it right on - there will be a flat wood or "plastic wood" railing screwed on top of it. I swear, though, this whole railing fiasco has all the symptoms of someone's first practical real-world project (and perhaps their last...). Yep, it's cute and fancy to draw it all up. Real life? Not everything gets positioned with millimetre accuracy... I can't imagine the nightmare they're dealing with of nearly customizing every single railing piece when they don't fit properly.
@RegionWaterloo @berryonline @janemitchell What are these flat bars for? Big discussion on @WRConnected about them. pic.twitter.com/1TCHE7N3qc
— iain (@Canardiain) July 12, 2016
My bet is that BuildingScout has it right on - there will be a flat wood or "plastic wood" railing screwed on top of it. I swear, though, this whole railing fiasco has all the symptoms of someone's first practical real-world project (and perhaps their last...). Yep, it's cute and fancy to draw it all up. Real life? Not everything gets positioned with millimetre accuracy... I can't imagine the nightmare they're dealing with of nearly customizing every single railing piece when they don't fit properly.