Custom staircases in Belœil
We build interior hardwood staircases for the houses of Vieux-Belœil and the streets around it, where the outside of the building is protected and the stairwell is not going to be reopened. A new flight has to fit a geometry that is no longer up for negotiation.
Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team
Eight staircase families. One that fits your home.
In Old Belœil the stairwell does not reopen: its width and its opening are a given. The layout is chosen from what they allow. These are the eight models we build in our own shop, each available in a classic or a contemporary style, and all shown under our staircases.
Straight staircase
The most common layout. Simple, solid, and the least costly to build.
Winder staircase
A quarter or a half turn, to save floor space without narrowing the treads.
Spiral staircase
When you need a way upstairs and there is very little floor to give.
Classic staircase
Closed risers and turned balusters. The warm, timeless choice.
Modern staircase
Exposed stringer and tempered glass. The change people notice first.
Butcher Block
Thick hardwood treads glued on edge. The thickness is the whole point.
Central stringer
One steel beam down the middle, and treads that look like they float.
Luxury staircase
Curves and wrought ironwork, for when the stair is the centrepiece.
How it works, from the site visit to the install
When the stairwell is fixed, everything rides on the site visit: the flight is milled to the figures taken there, never to a nominal size.
A staircase drawn, built and installed by the same team.
Finished floor to finished floor, the run available on the floor, the width of the opening. Nothing is drawn before that visit.
You get a dimensioned drawing and a firm price: layout, wood species, stain, railing infill. 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 stringers are laid out.
Our own crew installs it, in one to three days. No subcontractor: the same people from start to finish.
In Belœil, the stairwell does not move. The flight fits itself to it.
In Old Belœil and the streets around it, a load-bearing wall does not shift and a floor opening does not grow — and on the buildings the town has listed, anything touching the exterior goes through an approval first. That leaves the inside, where everything is settled to the millimetre. In practice: we measure your stairwell exactly as it stands, out-of-plumb walls and out-of-square corners included, and the flight is milled to those figures. No framing to redo, no permit to apply for. The flight is milled in Granby, then installed here and elsewhere in Montérégie.
- The floor opening stays exactly as it is, with no framing work
- The flight is milled to the measured figures, never to a nominal size
- The finish goes on after installation, in the light of the room
What is included, and what drives the price
A custom staircase comes down to four or five 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 layout: straight, winder, spiral
- The number of treads and the height to climb
- The wood species and the stain
- The railing infill: wood, metal, glass
- Moving the floor opening
- Keeping the existing stringers and anchors
- Reusing the opening exactly as it is
- Choosing a common wood species
- Doing the staircase and the railing together
Tell us what you have at home and we will tell you what it costs. The form is right below.
Photograph the stairwell from the upper landing
A view looking down from the landing shows the shape of the opening, the floor space left at the bottom and the ceiling height all at once. It is the single detail that saves us the most time.
Add the height between the two finished floors and the approximate age of the house. The measurement follows, carried out by the people who will build the flight.
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
Flights fitted to stairwells that were never going to move, milled and installed by the same crew. Every entry names the shape of the run, the timber worked and the coating applied.
Is it the railing rather than the stairs?
In an older Belœil house the flight itself often holds up perfectly well: it is the handrail and what carries it that show their age, and that job is counted in days.
