Glass Railing in Oakville

Project Spotlight: Custom New Build, South Oakville

The home was a custom new build in South Oakville, with a mono-stringer floating staircase as the centrepiece of a two-storey open foyer adjacent to a glass-enclosed wine cellar. While the stair structure and maple treads were specified by the architect, the glass guard system was our primary scope and the detail that ties the whole staircase together visually.

The guard is 12mm tempered glass, core-drilled and mounted on individual standoff hardware along the open edge of every tread, rather than a continuous base shoe channel. This approach was chosen specifically because the mono-stringer design left each tread independently cantilevered, so the glass needed point-fixing at each tread rather than a single continuous run. A slim brushed stainless cap rail sits on top of the glass, angled to follow the stair pitch and providing the graspable handrail required by code.

The standoff spacing was calculated to meet Ontario Building Code guard requirements while keeping the hardware as minimal as possible against the glass, preserving the open sightline toward the wine cellar and the textured wall finish behind the stair.

Glass panels were templated after the stair structure and treads were installed, fabricated to the individual tread profile, and installed in sequence up the run. Project time for the glass railing scope: 5 working days from template to final installation.