Stair railings and guards in Belœil
Handrail, guard, balusters: for Belœil homes we shape interior work in hardwood, in metal or in tempered glass. On an older flight the question is not which model to choose: it is how to reach the height required today without erasing what gives the stairwell its character.
Measured, milled at our workshop, installed and finished by our own team
Five railing families. One that fits your stairs.
On an older flight the question is not which model to pick. It is how to reach the height required today without erasing what gives the stairwell its character. 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 measures how far short the height falls, and finds the sound piece the profile will be copied from.
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 Belœil, we raise the guard without changing its design.
It is the request that comes up most often in the older housing here: the moulded handrail and the turned balusters are worth keeping, but the whole assembly sits ten to fifteen centimetres below what is required today. Replacing it with a stock model fixes the height and empties the stairwell of its character in one move. We take the profile off a piece that is still sound, shape it again in the same species, and refit the run on lengthened newels. The height becomes compliant, the design does not change. Our Granby workshop covers the whole of Montérégie.
- The profile is copied from an original piece still in good condition
- Missing parts are shaped again in the original species
- Newels are lengthened or remade when the height falls short
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 the age of the house, not just the height
The current height of the handrail and the approximate period of the house tell us more together than either does on its own. On an older assembly, both the gap to be made up and the way to make it up depend on what the stairwell is already carrying.
A straight-on photograph taken halfway up shows the handrail profile and the baluster spacing in one go. Add one of the base of the starting newel if anything has play in it.
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
Assemblies reworked to a profile already in place, shaped at the bench and put back by the people who made them. Every entry gives the infill chosen and the treatment the handrail received.
And if the flight itself needs rebuilding?
A new handrail on a flight whose treads are hollowing and whose stringer has started to work will underline the wear rather than correct it: at that point the job changes scale.
