Custom staircases in Saint-Amable
In Saint-Amable the median year of construction is 2005, and more than half the properties on the roll date from after 2000. The original staircase is not worn out here: it is a stock flight, put in as fast as the build allowed, in whatever species the developer had settled on. We make its replacement in hardwood, to the dimensions of the opening already framed.
Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team
Eight staircase families. One that fits your home.
Here, the staircase you already have is still in good shape: the opening meets today’s code and the structure is sound. What dates it is the look — the guard, the wood, the front of the treads. 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
On a staircase under twenty-five years old, the question is not whether it holds. It is how far to take it back — and that is what the site visit settles.
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 Saint-Amable, we don’t rebuild the staircase. We rebuild what you see.
Houses here are recent: the median build year on the roll is 2005. So your staircase is not worn out — it is simply a builder’s model, put in fast during construction, in whatever species the contractor had on hand. When the stringers and the anchors are sound, we leave the structure where it is and rebuild the treads, the guard and the handrail. You get the effect of a new staircase without the job a new staircase means. We build in Granby and install right across Montérégie.
- Stringers and anchors stay when they are sound
- Treads, guard and handrail can each be redone on their own
- Nearly every shape in our range is still open here
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.
The most useful thing is a photo of the stringer from below
In Saint-Amable the year of the house can be read off the roll, and it already tells us how the upper floor was built. What it does not tell us is how the supplied flight was fixed at the top and at the bottom: one photo from underneath settles that in a second.
Add the height measured from one finished floor to the next, and say whether the basement was completed when the house was handed over. We then come out and measure it all on site, bringing the cabinetmaker who does the cutting.
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
Three recent builds, from approved drawing through to the last coat: the layout chosen, the species, and the treatment given to the stringer.
Is it the railing rather than the stairs?
In stock built after 2000 the flight holds up perfectly well and it is the guard that shows its age: catalogue balusters, posts at an imposed spacing, one drawing repeated down the whole street. It can be replaced on its own, without taking off a single tread. That, by a wide margin, is what people here ask us for.
