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looking for a staircase

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  • 03-03-2008 11:21pm
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    marielle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭


    Hi there, I am building at the moment and have to find someone to make me a staircase. Trouble is, i don't like wood, or carpet covered wood, or even painted wood! But i need a closed staircase because i need the wall this is going to create to attach my future plasma screen and also i need to be able to drill into the risers to fit some LED ligths on every few risers so basically, i'm stuck with wood:( unless anyone has any other suggestion?
    I also would like the banister to be only glass, i would even like to have no stainless at all in it, just the glass sheet. Is that even possible and by that i mean do the building regs frown upon it?
    I was wondering if it would be possible to have wooden risers and to use wood for the overall carcass of the staircase but then have stone or polished concrete treads. Would anyone know anyone who would do something like that? Thanks a mil


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    #2
    ircoha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭ircoha


    Maybe http://www.strandjoinery.ie/stairs.html can help

    or http://www.spirecoengineering.com/


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    JoeB-
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    You could have the staircase made from cast concrete... this could be coloured and polished for a unique staircase. More or less everything is your choice, including the surface texture and the colour... the LEDs could also be incorporated (by making a suitable mould).

    I don't imagine many companies would do this or that it would be cheap, however it is possible...


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    JBCFord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭JBCFord


    Hi we have worked on projects like this for the commercial sector and private sector

    With a Metal stairs construction you can apply any finish desired to threads,risers and stringer using marble, granite, rubber, timber, tile, mosaic tile, laminated glass and mirror, deco metals and textured metals coloured plastics and leathers

    Balustrading in toughened glass sandwiched between metal stair stringers,you can have a combination of balustrading materials once it’s within code for its application
    Handrails in chrome, timber, leathers or a mix of materials

    If you’re completing commissioning a stairs to be built all applied loading of decorative materials and finishes weights must be calculated well before construction on the stairs starts

    Regards jbcford


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