Stairflight are a UK firm into all things stairs, internal or external - that's why we've put together a background page about our product and origins (relating to balustrade, bannister, banister, stair, stairs, stairparts, staircases) for your interest.

> When you've read enough perhaps you would like to look at our Product Range with a view to updating your balustrade. <

Our stainless steel component system with stainless steel rods or toughened glass panel infills is easily fitted to old stairs or new build stairs by diy enthusiast or tradesman / builder - and it doesn't cost as much as you think!

We can also supply whole staircases made from a wide range of materials such as stone such as granite and marble, glass, solid wood (beech, oak, pine, hardwood, softwood) and steel. These are made by our german partner Kenngott Treppen - choose from the online staircase designer program.

definition of balustrade
A noun
related alternatives bannister, banister, balustrade, balusters, handrail, balustrading
a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling

also Bannister, Roger Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister
English runner who in 1954 became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (born in 1929)

also balustrades - A rail and the row of balusters or posts that support it, as along the front of a gallery / galleried staircase or landing.

[French, from Italian balaustrata, from balaustro, baluster. See baluster.]
Related products also extend to: balcony - a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
baluster - one of a number of closely spaced supports for a railing
barrier - a structure or object that impedes free movement
rail, railing - a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports

Not to be confined just to dictionary definitions balustrade also appears in classical literature:

Here the Emperor sent his minister for Li Po, and here the great lyrist set her mortal beauty to glow from the scented, flower-haunted balustrade immortally through the twilights yet to come.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L.
The galleries were full of fashionably dressed ladies, leaning over the balustrade and trying not to lose a single word of what was being said below.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo
A flight of red freestone steps, fenced in by a balustrade of curiously wrought iron, ascends from the court-yard to the spacious porch, over which is a balcony, with an iron balustrade of similar pattern and workmanship to that beneath.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
We can deliver to most counties in England, Scotland and Wales but ask if outside these areas. Based near salibury, wiltshire we serve mainly southern customers (trade and public) in Witshire, Hampshire, Dorset, East Sussex and West Sussex, Wessex, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire, Northampshire, Cornwall

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go to Product Range or contact stairflight to find out more about our balustrade / banister range