Balustrades built on a posted frame with a handrail, in stainless steel, hot dip galvanised steel or powdercoated steel in any RAL colour. Infilled with 10mm toughened glass, or with tensioned stainless steel wire rope where you want the view kept as open as possible. Priced by the metre and made to your sizes in our Sheffield workshop.
Frameless glass gets the attention, but framed is what we sell most of, and usually for good reasons rather than budget alone.
The posts carry the load, so the infill is infill rather than structure. That means 10mm toughened glass instead of thick laminated, lighter panels, simpler fixings and a much lower price per metre. It is far more forgiving to install, because the posts are bolted down at intervals rather than the whole run depending on one continuous channel being dead level. And if a pane ever gets broken, you swap that panel rather than taking a run apart.
The handrail matters too. Because a continuous handrail runs across the top and is capable of retaining the glass, toughened glass is acceptable here where a handrail free frameless run would need laminated. That single difference is most of the cost gap between the two.
Both use the same posts and handrail, so the decision is about what you want between them.
Wire rope is not suitable everywhere. Horizontal wires can be climbed, so it is the wrong choice where young children will use the space unsupervised, and building control will sometimes say so. It also gives no wind protection at all. If either of those matters, buy the glass.
The handrail is a choice of its own: tubular stainless, steel colour matched to the posts, or a machined hardwood profile over a steel flat bar so the steel still carries the loading.
Posts are base plate fixed as standard, bolting down through the deck or landing. They can be concreted into the ground instead, or side fixed to the face of the structure, which keeps the floor finish unbroken and pushes the balustrade outboard so you keep the full width of the terrace. Side fixing costs more per metre because of the heavier bracketry.
Corners are priced into each product rather than sold separately. Count every change of direction: an L shape is one corner, a U shape around three sides is two. Add every leg of the run together for the total length.
1100mm high as standard, 900mm internally and on stairs and ramps. Frosted privacy glass and tinted glass are available on every glass system in this range.
Nothing here matters unless you are writing the specification or answering building control.
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.
