You can't post pics on here without them coming from a place like Photobucket. So you'll need to set up an account with one of those type places and put your pics in there, then you can transfer them to here. It makes it a little more complicated, unfortunately. Good luck!

I haven't been having any problems. If you edit your message after the preview then you have to select your image file again otherwise it won't show up.

A quarter inch might be his issue as he would have to replan his stair setup or shim as needed. Also, he may just simply want to make that extra profit on making the posts himself and also has a lot of pride invested in making up his own finish product, this is quite specialized. Most stair manufacturers provide everything as an assembly, planned to fit together as one. I'd start talking to other contractors instead of going with this guy as seems he laid out his strategy and its a take it or leave it kind of thing.

My photos suddenly didn't show up the other day. I have an IE browser. My computer son downloaded (I hope that is the right word) the Chrome browser to my computer. When I want to post pics, I can switch over to the Chrome browser, and everything works fine. In the meantime, I (like you) posted my problem on the Rose Gallery, and someone (was that you Patty?) told me to use the HOUZZ PHOTO button at the bottom of the box rather than the PHOTO button. I tried that with my usual IE browser and it worked. Then I got an answer back from the GW tech support who told me to try clearing history and cache, and then reopening the browser. I confess--I haven't done that because my computer son said it won't make any difference. Finally, Tamara posted an explanation on the Rose forum (which I copied on the Rose Gallery post) which explained that IE is being slowly phased by Windows which is coming out with a new browser called Edge--so there won't be much updating with our IE browsers any more--which might mean a number of functions might eventually not work well on IE. However, if you get Windows 10 which is coming out shortly, you will have the new browser. (I hope I phrased all those statements correctly. I'm not a computer person.) So there you have several solutions to the pic posting problem. I'm using the HOUZZ PHOTO button or the Chrome browser. Either works fine at the moment. Hope that helps. Kate