[Closed] Where to sell stone balustrade?

F h brundel on Millbrook road might do the glass posts.

Get the local architectural antique place to come and have a look. Worth a pretty penny to the right person.

We went for a cable system rather than the extra job of more glass to clean. S3i are where ours came from. Fitted by local landscape chap.

My only input is that if you go down the ‘stainless post with glass panel’ route, pay the uplift from brushed finish to smooth finish on the post.
Given where you live (relatively close to the coast) the brushed posts will be showing ‘tea staining’ within months and it’s a bugger to get rid of.  It’s only unsightly rather than anything worse but a shame for your new multi £k installation to look like it’s rusting away after 6 months.

I d put them on the Facebook architectural salvage group, no idea of value. I have nicely weathered balustrade but my top plinths were supplied hollow and filled with concrete on assembly, with iron rod, so difficult to move.

Sending details to a few architectural antique places.

Going for cable not glass for cleaning reasons - good shout, thanks!

Let's see what we get for the stonework. If anyone here wants to join the bidding frenzy then PM me.

Opening bid. You pay me and I'll take a sledgehammer to it :D.

Stand beneath it and I will give it a hefty shove 🙂

Brundles usually the go to for stainelss steel posts.
If you can sketch then draw out the glass you want and find a company near you to do make it for you. ( the glass that is)
One of the fabricators I use for structural steel makes a mint supplying and fitting this stuff. It all glues and screws together and you just bolt / clamp the glass in. The markup is huuuuge, and its one of those products that looks good, so the customer justifies the expense.

I will check Brundles - decided to go for cable rather than glass as I don't fancy cleaning 2x25M of glass every time is rains/pollens/bird shite

I’ll teach you how to use a dolly & squeegee. You’d have that cleaned in 30 min tops.

After spending lots of time looking at either cable or bar balustrades because we don't want to clean glass ones I have been told that they don't look as nice as glass ones and that I do want glass ones.

So all the points about letting creepers grow through the cables, the glass scorching the patio, the extra cleaning, the worry about scratches were all my imagining.

Does anyone have a glass balustrade who can share their experiences and photos if possible?

I look after a University (in Southampton). we have lots of stainless and glass balustrade. It looks lovely but it's very expensive when anything breaks and even internal areas needs lots of cleaning. I'm guessing in that location it may need to be toughened and laminated.

We used VR Construction for the last staircase. This was custom made welded and smoothed on site so rather pricey.

Jeff

we buy a fair bit of salvage masonry, majority through gumtree. There's plenty stuff on there so lots of people are looking for materials

Now and again if we need something special we'll got to a salvage yard but they will properly rinse you...check out prices on someone like Brick & Stone in Broxden. Give you an idea of what they'll be selling at.

We got ours from SHS (before they went into administration) although they relaunched.

Love them and have never cleaned them. Been fitted over 18months, will try and sort a picture.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/DFKuzSGDXuSwzGwS8

Link to a couple of pics of ours. I was looking at cable but with little grand kids glass was better. We wanted something not to block the view and the good thing is it also acts as a wind break!

@db I have no need whatsoever of a glass balustrade, but that looks smashing. I imagine it is rather wonderful to sit there enjoying a post ride glass or two!!

db - that looks great and is what we want but not sure we believe the self clean maintenance free adverts.

I will be showing this post to my wife and she is both female and quite particular about cleaning.

Please can you and your partner, if there is one, share your full and frank views about living with that and also, how long you have had it.

Cheers

Also DB - what was the approx price difference between glass and cable?

A man of your skills could probably fit the cable system yourself. The glass option would be trickier to diy I expect.
We priced both up I’ll try and dig out the quote. Very happy with the cable system. Took a small section out tonight so my two nephews can shift 2t of topsoil off the side on Wednesday.

I found an almost complete circle of sandstone ‘curbs’ amongst some FLYTIP I had to remove a good few years ago.
Took it to a local landscapers yard and got £60 for it, I can only presume he got 3x the price when he passed it on to somebody who could use it.

I’ve been back a few times over the years to sell him stuff that other people have thrown away 😉

DT - any numbers would be good. I was a great idea she had with no actual details or cots. I have no idea if this is £1,000 or £5,000 assuming I remove and fit. I still want a decent brickie to put the top layer on as I know I will not get straight. level and even over all of it

About 25M with at least 5 corners

Sorry for the delay. Apparently was about 3k but that was the company coming to do the survey as well as the fitting as I have a history measuring glass and getting it wrong. The run is straight about 15m but has two drops in height. Actually was about 3years ago and honestly never cleaned it. Seems to just clean itself in the rain. I’m sure it would look better if we did but so would the conservatory windows and life is too short to do that.