Balustrade

Clive Durose has over 25 years experience in crafting superior quality stairparts for an impressive balustrade. These balustrade designs are typically used for staircases in the home and commercial property applications where the emphasis is upon style and quality. We offer a superior range of over 50 exceptional quality wood balustrade and spindle designs with an equally impressive range of turned newel posts, square laminated newels and even newels matching the design of the rest of the balustrade. These are accompanied by beautifully moulded timber handrails and handrail fittings. There are several sizes available within the balustrade or spindle ranges. All items are made by craftsmen in our workshops from Oak, Pine, Hemlock. Ash, Maple, Cherry, Walnut, other softwoods and hardwoods. Hand finished barley twisted or fluted balusters are made to order in most of these popular timbers. Each baluster, spindle, newel, rail or other stairpart is supplied sanded ready for polishing after minimal final preparation. At extra cost your stairparts can be supplied ready polished. Please contact us to quote for any bespoke balustrade and wood turning requirements.

Handrails

Clive Durose handrails have been used to create spectacular staircase features. Our handrails have been crafted for bespoke designs for exclusive homes. Using carefully selected timbers we ensure each handrail is finished to a high standard. We also offer CNC machining facilities for the production of continuous handrails and handrail fittings and can also produce panel work and other solid wood components where required.

Wooden Staircase

Clive Durose manufacture parts for wooden staircases, including spindles, newels, newel bases, newel caps, balusters, handrails and handrail fittings. All the parts you need for a beautiful staircase or balustrade. With many years of experience supplying the wooden staircase industry, we have achieved an excellent reputation for helping private customers, joinery manufacturers and house builders to achieve the finest craftsman built stairs as a feature for their homes. We work closely with many reputable joinery companies to produce superior quality wooden staircase parts to our own designs or to bespoke requirements. Our staircase parts are constructed using the highest quality timbers and are subject to stringent manufacturing processes and quality inspection, ensuring that you receive the highest quality products.

Glossary Of Terms

Spindle

Usually this term refers to a turned spindle for use in a staircase or balustrade. A spindle usually has square ends for fitting into the hand and base rails of the staircase

Baluster

A baluster is usually a simple square stair rod or spindle with perhaps very simple embellishment such as a stop chamfer or stop ovolo design.

Balustrade

A collection of stairparts comprising handrail, newel posts, spindles or balusters is usually referred to as a balustrade.

Newel Posts

Newel posts are a key structural element of the staircase. Usually a square or turned post they can be found at the start and end of each section of the staircase. For example at the bottom of the stair or where the stair turns ninety degrees. The newel post is either a complete one piece item or a collection of other newel stairparts such as a newel post base, newel post turning and newel post cap.   Newel posts give strength to the stair and support the handrail which is either mortise and tenonned into the post or affixed to the top of the post in the case of a continuous handrail system.   Newel posts can be made to the same design as the spindles or balusters.

Newel Turning

This is the centre section of a newel post and comprises a square section at the top for the handrail to be fixed to or in the case of a continuous handrail system a spigot at the top to fix into a handrail fitting. At the bottom of the newel turning is a large spigot for secure fixing into the newel post base.  

Newel Cap

A newel cap is a decorative feature on the top of the newel post. It can be a turned cap such as a ball or an acorn shape or can be a simple flat cap with a moulded edge.

Handrail

This should be an uninterrupted length of a suitable material (usually wood or metal) and spans between the newel posts of a staircase. It is a part of the stair that gets most use and wear. Handrails are designed to be comfortable to grip and strong enough to fulfil the need as a protective barrier. Often these handrails have a groove on the underside to accommodate the spindles or balusters. These are available in different sections, styles and lengths as well as in many popular timbers.  

Baserail

A baserail fixes to the side of the stair (string) or to the floor of the landing. Like the handrail it has a groove in the upper side to accommodate the spindles or balusters which should be securely fixed into the groove using appropriate adhesive and fixing techniques.

Infill Strip

Infill strip or fillet strip is a thin timber strip that fills the gap between spindles or balusters when fixed into the hand and baserails. Typically the infill strip will match the timber of the handrail or baserail.

String

The string is another key structural component of the staircase. It is the outer side of the stair into which are fixed the treads and risers

Treads

Treads are the horizontal components of the staircase upon which you tread. These can be made of timber or manmade boards. They are jointed into the string into which they are grooved and wedged. Depending upon whether your stair is painted, carpeted or stained and polished, you should choose the treads and risers to suit.

Risers

Risers are the vertical boards attached to each tread. They close the gap between treads. As with the treads the material used for these is dependant upon your choice of finish for the stair.

Apron

This is the facia of the landing floor that can be seen at the bottom of the landing balustrade. The apron can be plastered and painted or can be made of the same material as the staircase.

Nosing

The front of the tread is the nosing and it is usually rounded on timber staircases.

Nosing Line

The nosing line is the line achieved by placing a straight edge over the nose of several treads. This is the line from which the handrail height is measured to comply with relevant building standards.

Rise

The rise is the vertical distance between each tread measure from the top of one to the top of the next. The overall rise is the distance between floors.  

Go

Go is the term used for the horizontal distance between risers. Overall go is the overall distance the stair travels in the horizontal plane.

 

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