Stair railings and guards in Saint-Hubert
We replace the interior stair railings and guards of Saint-Hubert homes, in hardwood, steel or glass. The light ornamental ironwork of the post-war bungalow has aged as one piece: it runs down to the basement without a break and is held at two or three points.
Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team
Five railing families. One that fits your stairs.
The ornamental ironwork in post-war bungalows has aged as one piece: it runs down to the basement without a break, and it never had a single post. Here are the five ways to change it, all set out under our railings and guards.
Handrail
Changing the handrail alone: the smallest budget for a real difference.
Custom guard
Same height, same code compliance, but a design you chose rather than inherited.
Glass railing
The most light, and the most dramatic change of the five.
Metal railing
Slim steel balusters, matte black. The contemporary look people ask for most.
Railings and handrails
All four families together, to compare before you decide.
How it works, from the site visit to the install
Here the site visit starts with one simple question: what is the assembly screwed into? The answer decides everything else.
A railing drawn, built and installed by the same team.
We take the dimensions from the nose of the tread, regulated height included, and we note what can stay in place. Nothing is drawn before that visit.
You get a dimensioned drawing and a firm price: infill, handrail, fixings. Nothing is cut until you approve it.
Everything is made in Granby, in our own shop. Count six to eight weeks between the approved drawing and the install. We check the dimensions a second time once the parts are laid out.
Our own crew installs it, in one to three days. No subcontractor: the same people from start to finish.
In Saint-Hubert, the railing is screwed into drywall. That is the problem.
The bungalows and cottages built here between 1960 and 1980 nearly all carry the same assembly: light ornamental ironwork, made in one piece from the top of the stairs down to the basement. It rests on no post at all. It is screwed to the wall at two or three points, often into the board alone, and decades of paint have drowned the welds. This is not a question of looks: an assembly held by three screws in drywall will not stop anyone. We take the whole thing down, refix into a framing member, then put back a guard at the height required today. Milled in Granby, fitted across the South Shore.
- The whole assembly comes down without damaging the wall finish
- Fixings are taken back into the stud or the stringer, never the board alone
- Height is restored over the full run, from the top step to the bottom landing
What is included, and what drives the price
A custom railing comes down to three or four decisions, not more. Here they are, so you know what to expect before you even call us.
- The site measurement, at your home
- The dimensioned drawing and your approval
- Manufacturing in our own shop in Granby
- Installation and finishing by our own crew
- The total length to cover: flight, landing, upper-floor opening
- The infill: turned wood, steel balusters, tempered glass
- The number of sections and corners
- A curved handrail rather than a straight one
- Keeping the existing posts and fixings
- Replacing the handrail only
- Choosing a standard infill rather than glass
- Doing the flight and the landing in one visit
Tell us what you have at home and we will tell you what it costs. The form is right below.
Tell us what the railing is fixed to
Two details frame the job: the present height, taken from the floor to the top of the handrail, and what the assembly meets — a wall, a newel, or both.
Push the railing with your hand before writing to us, and note where it gives: mid-descent, or close to a fixing. That one detail separates a re-anchoring from a full replacement.
From the first measurement to the last tread, one team.
We subcontract neither the manufacturing nor the installation. The same team measures, mills and installs — and that is what allows us to correct on site the discrepancies no drawing ever anticipates.
Design
We measure the opening at your home, set out the rise and run, and settle the wood species and the railing. The project is fixed before a single piece is cut.
Manufacturing
Milled at the workshop, in hardwood. Every staircase is built for its own opening: nothing is assembled in series or pulled from stock.
Installation
Installed by our own team, in one to three days. Adjustments are made on site, against the real opening rather than the drawing.
Restoration
Straight, winder or spiral, classic or modern — measured at your home, milled at the workshop, installed by our team.
A few of our projects
A few assemblies of the same order, drawn and milled at the workshop before being fitted on site. Each entry states the infill material and the finish.
And if the flight itself needs rebuilding?
Treads hollowed in the middle, split risers, a stringer that creaks at every step: a new railing will not redeem a flight that far gone.
