ESTRIE · MRC DE LA HAUTE-YAMASKA

Stair railings and guards in Granby

Rebuilding the guard of an interior staircase without touching the flight: infill replaced, hardwood grip remade or kept, posts retained when they answer. With the workshop at 805 boulevard Industriel, a part taken down in the morning can be back up by evening.

Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team

6–8 wks
TYPICAL LEAD TIME
4
INFILL OPTIONS
3
REGULATED VALUES
100%
MADE IN QUÉBEC
OUR RAILINGS AND GUARDS

Five railing families. One that fits your stairs.

With the shop at 805 boulevard Industriel, a part taken off in the morning can be back in place by the evening. Here are the five ways to change it, all set out under our railings and guards.

METHOD

How it works, from the site visit to the install

On a partial job the sequence tightens: what comes off at your place goes to the bench and comes back the same day.

Custom interior staircase and its guard, designed, built and installed by Escaliers Messier

A railing drawn, built and installed by the same team.

01
We measure at your place

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.

02
Drawing and quote

You get a dimensioned drawing and a firm price: infill, handrail, fixings. Nothing is cut until you approve it.

03
Built in our shop

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.

04
Installation and finish

Our own crew installs it, in one to three days. No subcontractor: the same people from start to finish.

In Granby, the part goes to the bench and comes back the same day.

Most requests here are not full replacements: an infill to change, a wooden grip to remake, an upright to rework. What is different in your town is the calendar. A grip taken off in the morning goes to the bench and is back in place before evening, because there is no travel to absorb. An hour up the road, the same part would wait for the next run. The rest of Estrie is served from the same bench, just not on that calendar.

  • A part removed, reworked at the bench and refitted the same day
  • Spacings measured at your place, never taken from a catalogue figure
  • Uprights kept whenever their section and their fixing hold up
Guard with white balusters and a stained wood handrail on a straight flight
WHAT YOU GET

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.

Included in every project
  • 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
What pushes the price up
  • 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
What brings it down
  • 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.

QUOTE REQUEST

Two photographs beat any description

The gap between two uprights, how high the grip stands at present and the material of the infill: those three tell us already whether the work stays light. The rest is settled when we measure.

Say too which part is concerned: the flight on its own, the landing return, or both. The number of parts to shape changes, and the schedule follows.

One shot of the upright over its full height, plus a wide view of the stretch involved: that is enough.
Only your name and email are required. We reply within 24 to 48 business hours.

TURNKEY SERVICE

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.

Custom staircase design work at the Escaliers Messier workshop

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.

Hardwood staircase being built at the Escaliers Messier workshop

Manufacturing

Milled at the workshop, in hardwood. Every staircase is built for its own opening: nothing is assembled in series or pulled from stock.

Custom interior staircase being installed on Montreal's South Shore

Installation

Installed by our own team, in one to three days. Adjustments are made on site, against the real opening rather than the drawing.

Sanding a hardwood staircase during a restoration at the Escaliers Messier workshop

Restoration

Straight, winder or spiral, classic or modern — measured at your home, milled at the workshop, installed by our team.

PROJECTS

A few of our projects

Assemblies rebuilt without taking the flight apart, shaped and then refitted by the same crew. Each entry names the uprights, the infill fitted and the finish of the grip.

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THE OTHER JOB

And if the flight itself needs rebuilding?

A new infill fitted to stringers that have moved does not keep its promise: past a certain amount of play, the whole climb goes back to the workshop, and the schedule has nothing in common.

CUSTOM STAIRCASES IN GRANBY →

Frequently asked questions

Can the work fit into a single day?
Often, yes, when only the infill is at stake and the parts have already been shaped. With the workshop in town, a grip taken down in the morning goes back to the bench and is refitted before the end of the day. What takes time sits upstream, in the making, never in the fitting.
Is the glass ordered to measured dimensions?
Yes, every time, and that accounts for the largest share of the lead time. The panel is cut after the drawing, to the spacings taken at your home. No standard size lands squarely on an assembly that is already standing.
Do the uprights have to be changed at the same time?
Not as a rule. We check the section of the post and its fixing to the floor; if both answer, they stay. Otherwise an upright is remade on its own, without the rest of the assembly coming down.
Railing, guard, handrail: where does one stop and the next begin?
A guard closes an opening, a handrail gives the hand something to hold, and everyday speech calls the pair of them a railing. The distinction matters because the requirements do not bear on the same elements. The Journal devotes a full piece to it.
Will you rebuild an assembly fitted by another manufacturer?
Yes, and that is in fact the most common case. Nothing requires the flight to have come from us for us to rebuild its guard. We measure what is there as it stands, existing holes included, and work with whatever holds.
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ONE TEAM, FROM MEASUREMENT TO INSTALLATION

The staircase you have in mind, down to the millimetre.

Tell us about the room, the height to climb and how the space is used. We will tell you which layouts are possible in your home, and what each one involves.

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