{"product_id":"internal-feature-staircase-metal-balustrade","title":"Internal Feature Staircase - Metal Balustrade","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bespoke internal staircase built from steel, with a fabricated metal balustrade rather than glass. Made in Sheffield, powder coated, and UKCA certified to BS EN 1090-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the stair for an interior where the structure is meant to be part of the look. Flat bar stringers with the tread fixings on show, open risers, and a balustrade made up from bar rather than bought in as a system. Treads in Durbar chequer plate, in solid ash or oak, or closed and ready for carpet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe figure on this page covers a straight flight up to a metre wide, meeting an existing landing or floor level.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlat bar steel stringers, powder coated in any RAL colour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTreads in your choice of three materials, selectable above\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMetal balustrade with vertical bar infills, 920mm above the pitch line on the flight and 900mm on landings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSteel handrail in flat or round section, whichever you prefer. Solid oak or ash handrails are an optional extra at additional cost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStraight flight as listed, up to 1 metre wide, connecting to an existing landing or floor level. Landings, turns and kite winders are quoted separately\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUKCA certified to BS EN 1090-2, execution class EXC2, designed to comply with Approved Document K\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAutoCAD drawings made to your dimensions and approved by you before anything is manufactured\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 year product warranty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSections and thicknesses are set on the drawing for your own span and loadings rather than taken from a standard list, so they are not quoted here. You will see them on the drawing before you approve anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThree ways to do the treads\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tread is the single biggest thing on this page, both for how the stair looks and for what it costs. All three are carried the same way, on welded cleats bolted through the stringer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDurbar chequer plate:\u003c\/strong\u003e hot rolled steel with the raised teardrop pattern, laser cut and folded. The industrial option, and the one with the best grip. It is the plate used on gantries and vehicle steps, and the pattern is rolled into the steel rather than applied to it, so it cannot wear off\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClosed treads for carpet:\u003c\/strong\u003e a steel pan with a solid riser behind it, built to take carpet laid by your own fitter. It gives you a steel feature stair in a hallway where the floor covering has already been chosen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSolid ash or oak:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardwood boards in a pressed steel tread tray. Ash is pale and straight grained, so a long flight reads as one continuous material rather than a stack of separate boards. Oak is warmer and more figured, and suits a darker interior better. The two are the same price, so it is a look decision rather than a cost one. Tell us which when you order\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTimber treads go in bare and are oiled after installation, once the other trades have cleared site. Oiling before that only means doing it twice. Our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/natural-wood\"\u003enatural wood page\u003c\/a\u003e explains how solid timber behaves once it is in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOpen risers, without a row of bars across them\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an open riser staircase, and it is the detail worth understanding before you order one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproved Document K requires that no opening in a staircase allows a 100mm sphere to pass through. On a stair of normal rise the gap between one tread and the next is far wider than that, so something has to close it. The usual answer is a row of slim bars across every riser, which works and which a lot of people then wish they had not had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn this stair the tread closes the gap itself. The steel is folded down at the nosing and up at the back edge, and the two returns on consecutive treads meet in the middle of the riser. Nothing is added between the treads, because the thing closing the gap is the same piece of steel that is already carrying your foot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt works the same way whether the tread is chequer plate or a tray under timber. What it depends on is the rise, so the sum is done on the drawing before anything is cut. Send us the floor to floor height and we will tell you where it lands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo of these are on the site to look at: an \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/projects\/industrial-steel-staircase-durbar-treads-mesh-balustrade-wakefield\"\u003eindustrial staircase near Wakefield\u003c\/a\u003e in chequer plate, and an \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/projects\/steel-staircase-ash-treads-metal-balustrade-manchester\"\u003eash tread staircase in Manchester\u003c\/a\u003e where the same principle is used under timber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe balustrade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe balustrade is fabricated here from bar rather than assembled from a catalogue system. That is the main difference between this stair and our glass ones, and it is why it is priced the way it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe standard run is vertical bar infills between a top and bottom rail, carried on posts off the stringer. The infill centres are calculated for each run so the bays divide equally and still come in under the 100mm sphere limit, rather than being set at a nominal spacing and left short at one end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelded mesh is the other standard infill: framed panels with 2 inch mesh set into them, at the same price as bar. It reads as a piece of equipment rather than a piece of furniture, it costs less than glass over the same run, and it never shows a fingerprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne point worth raising on mesh. A 2 inch mesh is potentially climbable, and opinions differ on how much that matters. Approved Document K no longer carries the guidance it once did about climbable guarding in dwellings, and building control officers take different views in practice. If you have very young children, or you think yours may raise it, ask them before you order rather than after. Bar infills and glass avoid the question altogether.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeight is 920mm above the pitch line on the flight, and 900mm on landings and gallery edges, which is what Approved Document K asks for inside a dwelling. The figure only rises to 1100mm where the same guarding carries on out to an external balcony or a roof edge. Our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/handrail-building-regulations-uk\"\u003ehandrail building regulations guide\u003c\/a\u003e sets out where those numbers come from, and the heights change again in a commercial or public building, so tell us what the building is used for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBespoke infill patterns\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of the photographs on this page show balustrades that are not a plain vertical run: angled bars at varying pitches, and rectangular loop balusters. Those are drawn for the job rather than taken off a shelf, and they are priced on enquiry rather than selectable above.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are not a small uplift. A patterned run has several times the number of cuts, welds and jig set ups of a plain one, and every one is laid out individually so the pattern resolves properly at both ends rather than running out halfway. Send us a sketch or a photograph of what you have in mind and we will price it against the flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHandrails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA steel handrail is included, in flat or round section, whichever suits the stair better. Flat reads a little more industrial and sits well with chequer plate. Round is easier in the hand over a long flight. There is no difference in price, so take your pick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSolid oak or ash is an optional extra at additional cost. It is machined from solid and mitred at the changes of direction so the timber runs continuously round a turn rather than stopping and starting, which is where the extra work goes. Several of the staircases photographed on this page have timber handrails on them, so if that is the look you are after, say so when you enquire and we will price it against your flight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the stair runs against a wall, a matching wall mounted rail keeps a hand on the same material the whole way up. Tell us which side the wall is on when you enquire and we will include it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy this costs more than a glass balustrade\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt usually surprises people, because glass reads as the premium material. In fabrication terms it is the other way round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA frameless glass balustrade is a set of clamps and a panel. A bar balustrade is posts, rails and infills, every one cut, jigged, welded, dressed and set out to a calculated spacing. It is a day's work rather than an afternoon's, and the price reflects where the hours actually go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf frameless glass is what you want, our \u003ca href=\"\/products\/steel-spine-staircase-oak-treads-clearfix\"\u003espine staircase with ClearFix glass\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/steel-spine-staircase-invisifix-oak\"\u003eInvisiFix version\u003c\/a\u003e start lower than this page does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/steel-staircase-faq\"\u003esteel staircase FAQs\u003c\/a\u003e go further into what drives the cost of a made to measure flight, along with open risers, kit form delivery and the one measurement we need before we can quote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCan you make one that is not a straight flight?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA straight flight is the only shape that can sensibly be priced from a dropdown. It is nowhere near the limit of what we build. The same staircase is regularly made with:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuarter and half landings built into the flight, finished in the same tread material\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eL-shaped and U-shaped runs, or a dog-leg back on itself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKite winder treads, which turn the stair through 90 degrees without a landing and are often the answer where a landing will not fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWider flights, and floor to floor heights outside the two bands listed above\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnything other than a straight run is drawn and quoted on its own, because no two are the same. Our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/staircase-buying-guide-uk\"\u003estaircase buying guide\u003c\/a\u003e compares the shapes and is honest about which suits which space, and there is a flight that is almost entirely winder in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/projects\/bespoke-london-basement-access-staircase-kite-winder\"\u003eLondon basement staircase\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLandings and gallery edges\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe balustrade on this page runs with the flight. Where the guarding carries on past the top tread along a landing, a gallery edge or a mezzanine, our \u003ca href=\"\/products\/internal-metal-balustrade-powder-coated\"\u003einternal metal balustrade\u003c\/a\u003e is made from the same sections in the same finish, so the two read as one piece of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTell us the lengths when you enquire and we will price the stair and the landing guarding together. Ordering them separately, or from two different suppliers, is how you end up looking at the step between them for the next twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eOptions worth knowing about\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSolid oak or ash handrails in place of steel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBespoke balustrade infill patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLandings or kite winder treads where the layout will not take a straight run\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnti-slip nosings to the tread edges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLED lighting integrated into the stringer or the handrail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo tone finishes, with the balustrade in a different colour to the stair\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsk us for pricing on any of these. The figure on this page is a guide for a standard flight, and every stair is quoted on its own dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTrial built before it is finished\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeature staircases are trial assembled in our Sheffield workshop before they go for coating. On a stair with a fabricated balustrade that matters, because the balustrade, the stringer and the treads all have to line through, and finding a fouling post in our own workshop costs minutes rather than a lost day on your landing. There is more on our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/trial-building\"\u003etrial building page\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDo you deliver and install?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe price on this page is for the staircase alone. Delivery is quoted separately once we know the size and where it is going. We install nationwide with our own team, and we will quote for that alongside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt arrives in sections rather than in one piece, so it will go through a hallway or round a landing opening that a made up flight could never be carried through. A staircase is structural, so if you are fitting it yourself we would recommend a competent tradesperson does it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIs it certified, and what paperwork do I get?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUKCA marking is a legal requirement for structural steelwork placed on the market in the UK, and a staircase is structural steelwork. It is not a badge or an optional extra, and a stair supplied without it should not be going onto your building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDio-Met is certified to BS EN 1090-2 with documented factory production control, coded welders and calibrated equipment. Every stair leaves here UKCA marked, with the certification issued against the goods. More on what that covers is on our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/ukca-certified-balustrade-balcony-staircase\"\u003eUKCA certification page\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStructural calculations are a separate piece of work. We can provide them, but they are chargeable individually and are never included in the price on this page. If you know calculations will be asked for, say so when you enquire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe guidance on this page reflects what we typically supply and is offered in good faith. It is not a structural specification and it is not a substitute for project specific design. Rise, going, headroom, guarding, fixings and the structure you are fixing to all vary, and final compliance for your project rests with you, your designer or your building control body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFixings\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery fixing needed to bolt the staircase together is supplied with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWall and floor fixings are not supplied on a supply only order. The right anchor depends on what your building is made of and what condition it is in, and that is not a call we can make from here. Fixing points come drilled ready and your installer selects anchors to suit the substrate. Where we install, we take that decision on site and provide them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eFinish\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowder coated in the colour of your choice, black being the most common on this stair. What to expect from a coated finish, and how to look after it, is on our \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/material-finishes\"\u003ematerial and finish standards page\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSee them in use\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery one of these was drawn, made and installed by us. Photographs, dimensions and what the job involved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/projects\/industrial-steel-staircase-durbar-treads-mesh-balustrade-wakefield\"\u003eIndustrial staircase with Durbar treads and mesh balustrade, Wakefield\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/projects\/steel-staircase-ash-treads-metal-balustrade-manchester\"\u003eSteel staircases with solid ash treads and metal balustrades, Manchester\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/projects\/bespoke-london-basement-access-staircase-kite-winder\"\u003eBespoke kitewinder basement access staircase, London\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/internal-feature-staircases\"\u003eAll internal and feature staircases\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBefore you order\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/staircase-buying-guide-uk\"\u003esteel staircase buying guide\u003c\/a\u003e walks through shape, construction, treads, balustrade and what drives the price. The \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/staircase-building-regulations-uk\"\u003estaircase regulations guide\u003c\/a\u003e covers rise, going, headroom and guarding, and \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/staircase-classification-uk\"\u003estaircase classification\u003c\/a\u003e explains which set of rules applies to your building.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSend us your floor to floor height and the opening you have to work with and we will tell you what will fit. Call \u003ca href=\"tel:+441142439009\"\u003e0114 243 9009\u003c\/a\u003e or email \u003ca href=\"mailto:sales@diomet.co.uk\"\u003esales@diomet.co.uk\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dio-Met Fabrications","offers":[{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Durbar chequer plate \/ No balustrade required","offer_id":57789334978900,"sku":"IFSMB-0001","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Durbar chequer plate \/ One side of stair","offer_id":57789335011668,"sku":"IFSMB-0002","price":5400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Durbar chequer plate \/ Both sides of stair","offer_id":57789335044436,"sku":"IFSMB-0003","price":7300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Closed treads for carpet \/ No balustrade required","offer_id":57789335077204,"sku":"IFSMB-0004","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Closed treads for carpet \/ One side of stair","offer_id":57789335109972,"sku":"IFSMB-0005","price":5400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Closed treads for carpet \/ Both sides of stair","offer_id":57789335142740,"sku":"IFSMB-0006","price":7300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Solid ash or oak \/ No balustrade required","offer_id":57789335175508,"sku":"IFSMB-0007","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Solid ash or oak \/ One side of stair","offer_id":57789335208276,"sku":"IFSMB-0008","price":6400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 2000mm \/ Solid ash or oak \/ Both sides of stair","offer_id":57789335241044,"sku":"IFSMB-0009","price":8300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Durbar chequer plate \/ No balustrade required","offer_id":57789335372116,"sku":"IFSMB-0010","price":5800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Durbar chequer plate \/ One side of stair","offer_id":57789335404884,"sku":"IFSMB-0011","price":8300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Durbar chequer plate \/ Both sides of stair","offer_id":57789335437652,"sku":"IFSMB-0012","price":10800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Closed treads for carpet \/ No balustrade required","offer_id":57789335470420,"sku":"IFSMB-0013","price":5800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Closed treads for carpet \/ One side of stair","offer_id":57789335503188,"sku":"IFSMB-0014","price":8300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Closed treads for carpet \/ Both sides of stair","offer_id":57789335535956,"sku":"IFSMB-0015","price":10800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Solid ash or oak \/ No balustrade required","offer_id":57789335568724,"sku":"IFSMB-0016","price":6800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Solid ash or oak \/ One side of stair","offer_id":57789335601492,"sku":"IFSMB-0017","price":9300.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Up to 3000mm \/ Solid ash or oak \/ Both sides of stair","offer_id":57789335634260,"sku":"IFSMB-0018","price":11800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/3052\/8852\/files\/1-steel-staircase-ash-treads-black-balustrade-manchester.jpg?v=1791025136","url":"https:\/\/diomet.co.uk\/products\/internal-feature-staircase-metal-balustrade","provider":"Dio-Met Fabrications","version":"1.0","type":"link"}