Cost estimate for glass stair railing

Parapet railing VSG 90cm high, with stainless steel posts and handrail - 3.5m for 1250 net including installation. Offer is 4 weeks old. So you have to reckon with 300-400 net per running meter.

Only with drawings or pictures (if already finished) can the prices be evaluated.

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I did it like this a few years ago: I ordered the metal parts from one of the online railing shops (for me: stainless steel from Cosch, full recommendation). There you can immediately see the prices and get a feel for material costs. They also provided good advice over the phone. Then I ordered the glass cut to size from a glazier, with the necessary drillings. For this, I simply prepared a tender and emailed it to various glaziers, the contacts I searched for online (e.g., eBay). Overall, this was much cheaper than comparable complete offers I found.

Warning: there are big differences in glass. Back then, for example, many eBay complete railing offers were certainly not suitable as fall protection (too thin). For me, it became laminated safety glass made from heat-strengthened glass, as a compromise between residual fall protection after glass breakage (possibly problematic with laminated safety glass made from tempered glass) and lower probability of glass breakage (compared to laminated safety glass made from mirror glass). Also consider the possible glass properties. Thicker glass looks slightly greenish, for example, whereas there is "purer" special glass.

I did it like this a few years ago: I ordered the metal parts from one of the online railing shops (for me: stainless steel from Cosch, highly recommended). You can see the prices immediately and get a feel for material costs. They also gave good advice over the phone. Then I ordered the glass cut to size from a glazier, with the necessary drillings. For that, I simply made a tender and emailed it to various glaziers; I found the contacts online (e.g., eBay). Overall, this was much cheaper than comparable complete offers I found. Beware: there are major differences in glass. Back then, many eBay complete railing offers, for example, were certainly not suitable as fall protection (too thin). For me, it ended up being laminated safety glass (VSG) made of toughened laminated glass (TVG), as a compromise between residual fall protection after glass breakage (which can be problematic with VSG made of tempered safety glass (ESG)) and a lower probability of glass breakage (compared to VSG made of mirror glass). Also consider the possible glass properties. Thicker glass, for example, appears slightly greenish, whereas there is "purer" special glass.

Yes, that is all correct. Meanwhile, as a private person, you can no longer get v2a or glass cheaply. I could hardly believe it, but for me, a railing including installation was just as expensive as ordering the material. And I already get stainless steel at a good price.

It certainly depends on the type of glass used, the length of the glass staircase, and the specialist company. But you will have to pay a few thousand. Since you want to use it daily, you should not hire the cheapest glazier :)

I am bringing up the topic again due to current reasons. We want to equip our staircase with an all-glass railing (90cm high).

We have contacted 4 companies and have so far received one offer of €16,000 including installation. This involves approximately 5.2 linear meters of laminated safety glass with a total thickness of 17.52mm. We requested an offer for [weißglas]. Commonly used float glass has a distinctly greenish tint at the edges, which we did not want. With float glass, we would come to about €12,000. Included in the €16k is an attached stainless steel finishing strip and installation using point holders.