Fixings & Fasteners
The screws, coach screws and throughbolts that actually hold the job together. Stainless where it is on show or outdoors, sold in packs so you are not short on the day.
The right screw for what you are fixing to
This is the single most common thing people get wrong, and it is why a clamp will not pull up square or a bracket works loose after a winter. Steel, timber and masonry each need a different fixing, and a screw that works beautifully in one is useless in another.
- M8 x 30mm glass clamp screws, pack of 20. Machine thread, for clamping into a tapped hole in steel. These are the ones that go with our clamps onto a steel post or a steel stringer
- Size 14 glass clamp screws, pack of 10. Woodscrew thread, for timber and for masonry with a plug. The equivalent fixing where there is no steel to tap into
- M5 x 20mm button head handrail screws, pack of 20. The small stainless screws that fix a handrail down onto its brackets, with a domed head that does not catch a hand
- M10 coach screws, 75mm or 100mm, pack of 10. The heavier fixing for posts and brackets into timber or into masonry with a resin or plastic anchor
- M10 balcony throughbolts, 300mm or 500mm, pack of 4. Long bolts that pass right through a wall and plate off on the far side, which is how a walk out balcony is anchored properly rather than hung off anchors in the face of the brickwork
Count before you order
Most glass clamps take two screws each, and it is worth having a couple spare. A dropped screw on a scaffold is gone. Packs are cheap set against a second trip.
If you are not sure
Tell us what the fixing is going into and what it is holding, and we will tell you which of these it is. Substrate matters more than load on most balustrade work: the fixing is rarely the weak point, the thing it is screwed into usually is. Perished mortar, thin blockwork and plasterboard all need thinking about before anything is drilled. Email us with a photo if in doubt.
Not a standard size?
This is made to order in our own Sheffield workshop, so it can just as easily be made to your dimensions instead. Send a photo and rough sizes and we will price it.