Steel balustrades and railings with metal infill, from plain vertical bar to ball tops, hoop tops and ornate scrollwork. Hot dip galvanised as standard, powdercoated in any RAL colour, made to measure in Sheffield for stairs, landings, terraces, ramps and boundaries.
Glass gets specified by reflex, and it is not always the right answer. Metal infill is worth considering when:
Vertical bar infill is the traditional and most common arrangement: solid round or square bars between a top and bottom rail. The spacing of the bars is set by the regulations rather than by taste, which is why you cannot simply widen the gaps to save money.
Ball tops and hoop tops are the same bar infill with a decorative head. A 30mm cast ball finial on each bar is the classic English boundary railing, the one most conservation officers accept without an argument. Curved hoops between the bars give a softer, rounded line and no points. Both cost the same and both suit period property, front garden boundaries and churchyards.
Ornate and decorative takes bar infill further with scrollwork, collars, finials and shaped detail. This is what we make for ramps, period restorations and anywhere the railing is meant to be part of the building rather than just a barrier.
Railings can also be made short, to sit on top of an existing low garden wall, which adds height and security without rebuilding the brickwork. If you want an open metal balustrade with no bars at all, tensioned stainless wire rope is on our framed glass and wire balustrades page.
Raw steel is cheapest but will start to rust within days outdoors, so it only makes sense if you are priming and painting it yourself. Hot dip galvanised needs no upkeep and lasts decades, but it is bright silver weathering to grey rather than a colour. Galvanised then powdercoated puts your colour on zinc, so a chip on site does not start rusting.
One exception worth knowing: where the horizontal rails pass through holes in the posts and are assembled on site, powder coat gets scratched as the bars are fed through, so that type is offered in raw steel or galvanised only. The product page says so where it applies.
1100mm high as standard, 900mm internally and on stairs and ramps. Let us know whether the posts are concreting into the ground or bolting down, and roughly what the run has to follow, and we will take it from there.
Worth reading only if you are specifying the job or sending it to 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.
