Railings make our Life Safer

Forms of railings

Railings are used to separate and guide, clarify the boundary of split area. And the excellent-design railing can be used as a kind of decoration. According to the form, railing can be divided into internodes’ type and continuous type. The former consists of upright, railing and rung. The later consists of railing, baluster and base. The normal kinds are wood railings, stone railing, stainless steel railing, metal railing, cast stone railing, cement railing and combined railing. And there exits other two kinds: hollow out one and unified one. The former is made up by upright and handrail, and some are decorated with rung and flowers. The later one is made up by ripping fence and railing. The design should take safety, good looking, saving space and convenient installation into consideration.

The requirements of design

There should be some space between stair railing and handrail. Select the first and the last standard level in designing the time board. And the railing should be continually from the ramp of the stair, if the stainless steel handrail fittings is not circle, the handrail’s turning line must be above the kick board line of rest platform. Choosing railings made by different materials is extremely an important factor to deal with the relationship between stairs and surrounding environment, meanwhile, the selection of the color of material and the creating of stair are the key factor to the environmental design. For example, a series of graceful glass railing fixed on the structure of stair by a kind of mental, and the wooden handrail make people feel comfortable and safe, and bring the sense of warm.

Procedures of fixing railing

1.Snap the line on the surface of finished cover, and point out the position of each rail post. 2.Drill a hole whose deep is 50mm in upright by electric hammer, and the bottom depth is 100mm, and drill’s diameter is the same with reinforcing steel bar. 3.Put the column reinforcement into the drill hole with hammer. 4.Penetrate the accessories through the column reinforcement. 5.Weld rail flat iron, and heated by acetylene, then set right in the position of bended and curved, and then cool it down by some cold water, then correct the iron. 6.Weld accessories 7.Fix wooden or stainless steel handrail.

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