The Brief:  Fabricate and install a solid, flat, brass handrail with concealed fixed to an existing spiral staircase.

 

Materials Used: Solid brass

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Fabrication: The fabrication process included some of the following steps:

• On-site, we measured the existing staircase and used a stud finder for stud locations behind plaster. 

• We calculated the length of the total materials for the development of the elliptical rail. 

• We built a mock staircase assembly on the workshop floor, with verticals members to represent studs on site. 

• We created roll brass sections in 3 plains, to create required radius, required twist of the bar and required incline.

 

Installation: The installation process included some of the following steps:

• Stud location was marked on the walls at chosen connection points. 

• A 16mm hole was drilled through the plaster into the timber stud, and our wall brackets were screwed into the studs. 

• All brass rolled sections were tig welded to the brackets and each other on-site.

• Final polish with scotch bright was applied to all sections.