Carried in as parts, built up in place
Loft stairs, mezzanine flights, balustrades and handrails for Norwich homes, offices and shops. Each stair is made as stringers, treads and panels in our city workshop, so it goes through a tight doorway and bolts together inside.
Norwich is home. The workshop is in the city, so site visits are easy.
Metal staircases for Norwich
A terraced hallway or a first floor office will not take a finished flight. Separate pieces will go in.
We make steel staircases in Norwich for homeowners, builders and fit out contractors, and most city jobs share one problem: access. Narrow front doors, shared stairwells, upper floors above shops and nowhere to stop a lorry.
So the stair is planned around the route in. Long stringers are split, with bolted splice plates hidden under a tread. Landings come as frames that two people can lift. Balustrade panels are kept short enough to turn on a half landing. A tight stair is put together once in the workshop, then taken apart, finished and brought across the city for our fitters to assemble.
Architectural metalwork in Norwich
Loft, mezzanine and fit out stairs
Send the drawings, or the floor to floor height, the size of the opening and a photo of the route from the street. We can help work the layout up for fabrication, and the estimate is free.
Straight and quarter turn flights for loft conversions and rear extensions, in the terraced streets of the city and out in Thorpe St Andrew, Sprowston and Hethersett. Treads in folded steel, or plates drilled so your joiner can fix oak on top.
Stairs up to mezzanine floors and new upper levels in offices, shops and trade units, from the city centre to Sweet Briar Road, Bowthorpe and Broadland Business Park. External fire escape stairs are made the same way.
Balustrade panels for stair sides, landings and mezzanine edges in vertical bar, flat bar or frames set out for glass. Wall handrails for existing stairwells in mild or stainless steel, made in lengths that will get up the stairs they are for.
The numbers come from your designer
A loft stair in a Norwich terrace is often the tightest part of the whole design, with headroom, pitch and going all competing for the same space. Those figures, along with guarding heights, infill gaps and loadings, are decided by your designer and checked by Building Control.
Our part is to fabricate to the dimensions on the drawings. Signing off compliance is not something we do, and structural calculations are for your engineer. What we will do is tell you early if a detail cannot be made, or carried in, the way it is drawn.
In a listed building or a conservation area, any consent is yours to arrange before we start cutting steel.
Pricing a Norwich staircase
Drawings are the quickest route. Without them, give us the height between floors, the width you want, the room at the head and foot of the stair, the tread type and the finish. For city jobs, add photos of the front door, hallway and any turns.
Being in Norwich means a site measure is easy to arrange, and where a stair sits between existing walls we always measure before steel is cut. Timing depends on the design and the finish. Galvanising and powder coating are done by outside finishers, so that stage needs time. Tell us about parking and loading limits too.
More steelwork in Norwich
The fabricators who make your stair also make driveway gates, boundary railings, Juliet balconies and canopies for properties in Norwich, Taverham, Drayton and Poringland. It is all made in the workshop as separate parts and fitted by our own team, anywhere in Norfolk.
You get a free estimate, and we agree the price with you before any work begins. Our customers are homeowners, builders, landlords and shopfitters.
Gates and railings in NorwichNorwich staircase FAQs
Yes, because it never arrives whole. Stringers, treads, landing frames and balustrade panels come in one at a time and are bolted together in place. If the route is very tight, we split the stringers and hide the joint under a tread.
We make it to the rise, going, headroom and guarding heights that your designer or Building Control give us. Approving it is their job, not ours, so have the design settled with them before we cut steel.
Often, yes. For shops, offices and units around Norwich we can plan the fitting for an evening or a weekend so you stay open. Tell us the hours you can give us and we will say what is realistic.
Yes. They are all a short drive from the workshop, as are Trowse, Longwater and the Airport Industrial Estate. The rest of Norfolk and Suffolk is covered from here as well.
Steel staircases in Norwich, Norfolk
Call 07495 409006 or send drawings, sizes and a few photos of the access. We will reply with a free estimate for the stair or balustrade.