Modern Cut String Staircase With Embedded Glass Panels

Unlike a traditional cut string, where the ends of the risers are hidden by a decorative bracket, on a modern cut string stair, the risers are extended past the string to finish in line with the treads. This creates a “zig-zag” effect when viewed from the side.

Normally embedded glass balustrade sits into a grooved baserail.

However, because there is no baserail on a cut string staircase, the glass sits into a groove on the treads and risers, the glass is specially ordered for each project.

Due to the length of the run on this staircase, the glass has been supplied in two pieces, we then designed each panel so that the join was in the middle of a tread.

Feature treads are optional, however, a normal rounded profile feature tread would not have suited all the square edges on this staircase, as such, we supplied square feature treads to better suit the design of the staircase.

The third riser was also extended down to the floor in order not to see the underside of the feature treads.

Normally the underside of the stairs is covered with plasterboard to hide the wedged construction which doesn’t look attractive. However, it’s possible to have stairs “exposed back” where the underside doesn’t need covering and looks attractive. Due to the width of this staircase, however, 44mm treads were required in order to provide adequate support.

Due to the scale of this staircase, 140mm posts were used, we do not keep these in stock, however, they were ordered in as a special order.

We don’t generally recommend such large posts, the largest post we normally recommend is 115mm and we keep these in stock.

The posts are finished off this a special order “shadow cap”.

At the customer’s request, we ordered in extra large handrail as a special order, again this isn’t something we keep in stock but was requested due to the size of the posts.