What are stainless steel stair railings

Stainless steel railing

The use of stainless steel for domestic needs is widely used because of the possibility to increase the life of a particular structure. In addition, the ground metal surface is very beautiful and blends well with any design. The stainless steel is also used for fencing stairs and landings, which, in fact, will be discussed below, as well as you can explore the video in this article.

Types of stainless steel fences

Stainless steel railing

First of all, the installation of a barrier from any material complies with the standards provided by the safety instructions - this protects your health and life itself. And, of course, these are additional opportunities for the design of the interior or exterior of the building.

Most often, the design of this type of fence consists of pipes of different diameters and rods, but sometimes balusters are connected by rows of cables, and sometimes wood is also added for handrails (see also the article Wooden stair railings - wood features).

Fencing for marching designs

Profile stainless steel railings on the marching structure

• In this case, stainless steel stair railings are not responsible for the stiffness of the whole structure, because the long straight spans themselves are rigidly designed. Because of this, the railing can be done with any design, using the marches themselves as a basis - this is very important for solving the problem of loosening balusters, because the rack can be fixed using the characteristics of the span.

One of the options for fixing the railing on the marches

• If you look at the photo above, you will see that the railings have a double margin of stiffness, as it were, due to their design. Firstly, the balusters are immured into the body of staircases, and there the hedgehog is welded to the reinforcing frame of the structure. Secondly, when turning to the next march, the fence is not interrupted, that is, the handrail, smoothly bending, turns in the opposite direction, thereby creating several rows of supports on one rail.

Fastening balusters with heels

• Balusters are most often attached to metal stairs with a heel, which is a single whole with the stand (see also the article Metal fences for balconies, stairs and terraces in apartments and country houses). The strip (heel) is fastened to the step with the same stainless bolts, and the head, as a rule, is covered with a decorative cap. You can, of course, use welding for this, but the design will lose its elegance.

Using cables instead of jumpers

• Often, steel cables are used as jumpers between the balusters, passing them in several rows, and sometimes they pass through racks and sometimes they are mounted on special brackets. In order for the cables not to sag, the distance between the posts should not be made more than 1200 mm, and the thread itself usually has a diameter of 3 to 6 mm. When installing such structures, special devices for cable tensioning are used.

Enclosures for spiral staircases

• In some cases, the spiral staircase is formed of short straight marches, and then making and installing a handrail with your own hands does not present any particular difficulty - the whole structure is assembled in the same way as marching devices. But if the ladder spiral is continuous, that is, the design is made in the form of a screw (hence the name is a spiral staircase), then the fence should be exactly the same.

Pipe bending machine

• Pipe bending machines with rollers of the desired width (for pipes of different diameters) are mainly used for pipe bending.. On such devices there is a software control, so you can accurately calculate the required bend of the spiral and the number of turns on one handrail

Council If you decide to bend the tubular profile with a manual pipe bender, then determine where the longitudinal joint is. So that it does not dissolve during deformation, then install it so that it falls on the convex side of the bend.

Railing for spinal stairs

Stainless steel railing on the ridge ladder

• To begin with, let's look at the very definition of the ridge ladder, or rather, with the features of its design. Such a ladder consists of several links connected to each other and they are held, thanks to the welded in advance kosour (beam or beam with a ridge for installation of steps). The installation of the ladder itself is quite simple, which is not the case with the rails, if they have to be curved in the form of a spiral, but basically the enclosures of the principle of mounting adventures is similar to marching ladders.

Council For fastening fences to spinal stair designs it is best to use balusters with a heel end, which is fixed by bolts to the step.

Accessories for stainless steel railing

• Components (profiles, clamps, bolts, washers, caps and so on) for ladders of any type can be ordered separately from each other and even made to order. The most difficult thing is with the spiral staircase, where the spiral of the handrail in each individual case is purely individual, from which, naturally, the price of such railings also grows. It is better to order such barriers in specialized points where they are produced on high-quality equipment.

Conclusion

By and large, the fence of stainless steel stairs are the most durable construction of all materials used for this purpose, besides, they have the longest operational life. Such handrails can be used for stairs of any material, the main condition here is the possibility of high-quality fastening (Read also the article Cast-iron railing for stairs - an impression of respectability, nobility and security).