Railings of marches and platforms - railings are an integral part of the staircase structure. With the seeming secondary importance of the railings (sometimes they are simply not used), they still deserve special attention.
Guardrails are used to create comfort and safety when moving up the stairs, along with this, they are the subject of staircase design.
Varieties of handrails
Railings can be austere, simple shapes, as well as lush, palatial pieces of art that cost more than the entire staircase. That is why the main aspect of choosing certain types of fences is money, respectively, the higher the cost, the less demand.
What fences will be made of depends on:
- Materials of the main structure.
- Ladder assignments.
- Installation locations.
- Your individual preferences.
At the same time, it is far from important what materials the structure is made of, you always have a choice whether to build a staircase with your own hands or order a ready-made structure. The easiest way is to make it out of wood, for this you only need a screwdriver or a drill, which is much more difficult when the ladder is planned from metal.
Note!
It is necessary to approach the choice of metal for the stairs when making a structure with your own hands with special responsibility. For example, aluminum is too soft and expensive, and cast iron is rough and heavy, while stainless steel is ideal.
It is light enough, durable and not afraid of atmospheric influences, therefore it is used everywhere.
Therefore, the choice of specialists is stainless steel railing for stairs, which you can lean on at any time of the year and are not afraid that they will fall apart.
Street railings
All the inhabitants of the urban jungle are familiar with the simplest and most common representative of this material, literally created for such purposes. On the streets of any city, you will not walk ten steps without bumping into the unpretentious railings that accompany us up the steps to the office or store.
Even if you are young and easily overcome two or three steps, in winter, when they freeze over, you gratefully grab onto the supposedly unnecessary railings. Such stainless steel stair railings traditionally consist of several posts, united by a handrail. Sometimes such a structure is located on one side of the staircase, and on the other only a handrail attached to the adjacent wall.
There are many options for the location of such structures:
- One-sided.
- Bilateral.
- One-sided with an additional handrail.
- Combination of one-way step attachment and two-way one with an adjacent ramp, for the movement of people with disabilities or baby strollers.
Indoor stair railing
At first glance, it seems that stainless steel stair railings can only be used in harsh conditions, but this is far from the case.
They are in perfect harmony with almost any design solution for indoor interiors, for example, the structures look equally advantageous:
- Straight-line with uprights and cross-sections of a smaller section.
- Ornate with curved elements.
- Combined.
- With glass guardrails fixed to stainless steel posts.
- With a handrail made of wood or plastic.
In any version, stainless steel fences look light and almost weightless.Aluminum is the same light material, but it is difficult for it to compete with stainless steel. The thinness of aluminum materials makes structures made of it vulnerable under the influence of heavy loads, possible impacts, which is fraught with deformation and deterioration in appearance.
Advantages
What are the other advantages of stainless steel railings:
- The most important advantage for those who like to do everything on their own, saving on expensive specialists, these structures are prefabricated.
- All parts, fasteners and accessories for stairs can be bought ready-made. You just have to collect and securely fix them on the stairs, you must agree, this is important for those who do not have the skills of welding.
- You can always repair the fence at low cost, replacing only the failed parts.
For your information!
It is unlikely that a stainless steel rail will become unusable.
Rather, you may want to redesign the staircase and use other format bindings or decorations.
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- Installation of such railings can be carried out on an already finished staircase, if you delayed with the decision, what should be the railing.
- Stainless steel railings do not require additional finishing work.
- They are easy to operate and maintain (especially a stainless steel handrail, it is polished by the hands of people moving along the stairs and, without requiring daily wiping, looks "brilliant").
- The durability, practically "indestructibility" of such structures, threatens to bore you rather than add to the costs of the necessary repairs. This does not apply to glass-paneled fences.
- Ease of assembly. Each set of fencing comes with instructions, following which even a beginner will cope with the task.
- And last but not least, you will be pleased with the cost of the structure, which is much lower compared to the cost of similar wrought iron stair railings.
Fencing requirements
There are general requirements for railings of any design:
- Comfortable height of the fence, but not less than 90 cm.
- The distance between the main posts is about 60 cm.
- For a handrail mounted on a wall, the distance from its surface is 7-10 cm.
- If frequent movement of children is expected along the stairs, the distances between the main structures of the fence should be reduced by an additional run along the march and racks in increments of no more than 20 cm.
Output
Now you understand why stainless steel stair railings are in such demand and are recommended by all experts. On the other hand, nobody canceled the ability to combine different materials to create an individual style.
You can easily combine wood and metal, sticking to the color scheme existing in the living space. In the video presented in this article, you will find more information on this topic.
