The build feed

What you are actually looking at.

The feed mixes residential and commercial work, interior and exterior, finished installs and shop-floor progress shots. A few patterns to look for as you scroll, because the photo alone does not always tell you what the stair is:

• One central beam under the treads — that is a mono stringer. The treads cantilever to either side, and the visual lightness comes from a single HSS tube doing the structural work.
• No visible stringer at all, treads coming straight out of the wall — cantilevered. There is a steel armature buried in the wall framing carrying every tread; the wall got engineered before the stair was photographed.
• Two outside stringers — conventional. Most of the commercial galvanized work in the feed is built this way because it is the cleanest path through BC Building Code Part 3.
• Stainless cable on the railings — that is cable, not glass. Cable lets the staircase keep visual transparency while staying inside code for guard infill openings.
• Charcoal or matte-black finish on interior steel — typically a two-coat shop powder coat over a phosphate pre-treatment, not field paint. The field-paint version always loses its colour around the handrail within five years.

If a photograph in the feed is close to what you have in mind, the fastest way to scope it is to send the image plus a rough plan or staircase opening dimension to contact. We will tell you whether the support method in the photo will work on your site, and what a similar build typically lands at.

Want the project-level write-ups instead of the photo feed? See selected projects for finished installs with the brief, the support strategy, and the finish system spelled out.