Quote for replacing stair rails etc- your opinion

[LittleMissDIY]

Doing work on my house and had one quote from a carpenter to take off the old fashioned banister/rails of the stairs and replace with glass panels and a handrail. It's a day's work and not complicated they said.

The quote is around £1600 which is a lot more than I thought as the materials aren't that expensive (seen kits etc online for materials alone for £600-ish)

Any comments on this cost? I was impressed with the company but it's a bit out of my budget.

We’re looking to get the same thing done. I’ve got requests out for quotes - will let you know when I hear back.

That's great thanks @Sportsnight

I was expecting something like £500 for the work plus materials.

Just replacing the rails and not the handrail cost a friend about £600. I'm waiting for a quote and expecting it to about that, and that's with dh doing the preparation, removing the spindles and making good before the glass can be fitted.

Who was the company, is it someone like stairfurb? If you’re remotely handy you can buy the components online.
Depending on the system, the glass can be very expensive and glass prices have gone up in the last few months. Has the quote specified the thickness of the glass?

We replaced an 80s special pine plank staircase with a bespoke Oak one with square spindles from a local carpenter. Cost about £4k, and he was here for about 6 days fitting it all. It's a half landing style staircase.

£1600 sounds pretty reasonable, especially for the thickened safety glass, removing all the old stuff and putting in new rails. It's a very skilled job.

We just done this. Our staircase has a half turn and there is galleried landing all around at the top so probably a lot more glass than just a straight up and down stair run.

The stairs also needed repair - two broken treads had to be fixed, the top newel post needed to be replaced and other sections of the wood supports plus we had new solid oak bannisters fitted.

Total cost for all the work was £3400.

I've just had my 70s pine baulestrad replaced with spindles an

And a handrail. Its cost me nearly £900. It took 2 men all day to fit it. I'm very pleased with it. I believe glass is much more expensive so £1600 sounds about right to me.

Thanks for all the comments.

They seem to be a mix of 'do it yourself with a kit' or the price they want is okay!

It's not the stairs, just for clarification. Just one hand rail, newel posts, and the glass instead of the existing spindles.

Is the glass square panels then, not angled? Is it the system that uses clamps (as opposed to ‘frameless’ where the glass sits in a channel at the bottom)?

@dizzyupthegirl86

Is the glass square panels then, not angled? Is it the system that uses clamps (as opposed to ‘frameless’ where the glass sits in a channel at the bottom)?

That's right- glass in clamps. They didn't recommend frameless as said it can move or whatever.

That does seem quite high, though it depends on how much you’re having done.
Would you consider sourcing material and fitting yourself? That post system they’ve quoted is about the easiest one to fit yourself!
They’ll have quoted 10mm glass which is also the cheapest way to do it.