Balaasins for ladders from wood: main types and selection criteria

Beautifully decorated staircase - decoration of any home. The design provides free access to the upper floors, attic, balconies. To protect the rise and descent on the steps, the construction is equipped with fences. Supporting columns supporting the railing are called balusters. These fragments play a decorative role and perform an important function of a reliable support.

Balasins for stairs from wood are hundreds of different options - from simple products to suitable carved columns. The configuration and form of supports set the overall stylistics with a wooden staircase.

Balaasin modifications

The extensive range of wooden racks opens up excellent opportunities for creating exclusive stairs and balustrade. For the manufacture of fender elements, durable wood breeds are used. The natural tree is well staining and varnishing, which allows you to preserve the attractive type of product for a long time.

According to the production technology, the support racks are conventionally classified into three extensive groups:

Accurate columns. Made on conventional lathes, giving balasins different geometric forms in the context - cylinders, rectangles, ellipses. Products are characterized by a simple elegant look and pricing accessibility.

Milling balusters. They are characterized by the presence of original jewelry in the form of longitudinal and screw cuts, made using a milling mill. They are distinguished by an attractive appearance, use wide demand from consumers.

Carved decorative elements. Production technology is characterized by a time-consuming and complex manufacturing process, such balasins are created on specialized machines. Three types of thread are used: sculptural (paintings), deaf (background), openwork (flat blanks).

Stair balusters ensure the safety of movement along the steps. Each person when climbing and the descent, instinctively tries to grope the railing. Products perform a reference function, improve the strength characteristics of the staircase.

The columns made of environmentally friendly wood have a certain warmth, beautiful texture, give the simplest staircase an exclusive presentable look. The tree is organically combined with different materials, styles, interiors.

Balasins used for stair fences hundreds of years ago. They did not lose the relevance in modern design, and handmade products are valued more expensive.

What are the balusters to choose for a wooden staircase: species, sizes and popular wood breeds

Varieties of wooden bassine

Internal and external stairs harmoniously look in combination with railing and fencing of natural wood. Steps with supports and handrails acquire a holistic look, and the staircase design meets the safety requirements.

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A wide selection of balasine can be divided into three main categories:

Flat. Presents made from plywood or wood elements made with ornaments and patterns well fit into beautiful compositions.

Round. It is performed in a strict cylindrical form of solid wood, the cross section parameter varies from 2.5 to 4 cm, differ in good condition with the configuration of stairs.

Figured. Popular sculptural supports are manufactured manually or on special machines with software equipment, using expensive wood for work.

Choosing a balaasine shape, you need to focus on the design and decorative characteristics of the wooden staircase:

For marches in a classic style, square balusters that give the stairs and interior solidity and chic are best suited.

Staircase with wooden balusters in classic style

A small flight march can be independently protecting and decorate with elegant round supports of a small thickness to make the construct of air and ease.

Elegant colonial style stairs are most effectively combined with carved balusters, and the first rebuilding columns must be massive and completed the general type of construction.

Beautiful wood staircase with carved bassines

What kind of wood to choose?

For the manufacture of bassine, only solid wood is used so that the fences are durable, durable and kept considerable load. The masters recommend to perform support pillars and steps from the same wood.

The complexity of wood processing, the number of patterns, ornaments, drawings affect the final cost of the stairs. For the manufacture of balassine, oak, beech, pine and other wood breeds are used, which are distinguished by high operational and aesthetic characteristics.

Oak

Such wood, like oak, is distinguished by a pleasant shade and beautiful texture. Natural wood has high strength and retains the original view of many years. Therefore, ladders with oak balusters have a large amount of active exploitation. The oak is well handled, you can cut the finest patterns and curls on the blanks.

Beech

For hardness, strength and decorative properties, the beech wood is not inferior to oak rocks. Bouquets from beech give the stairs to the extra rigidity, well withstand the load. A man with a mass of body 100 kg can calmly rely on the railing supported by the beech supports. The only drawback is the beech strongly exposed to moisture. Therefore, for many years of exploitation, the staircase balaasine from beech must be carefully treated with special compositions.

Ash

Wood from ash is very solid, often used to make wooden elements and structures. For high-quality indicators, the ash inferior to beech and oak material. But wood has high resistance to humidity and has an attractive natural pattern. In the ash elastic, durable, solid structure, resistant to rotting. Balaasins from ash are well withstanding considerable bending loads.

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Birch

In the production of Balyasin Berezu use less frequently of other species of trees. It is characterized by the structure of medium density and hardness, but very good viscosity. The disadvantages of birch wood include a tendency to cracking, a high percentage of drying, exposure to rotting. The masters appreciate Birza for good properties when processing and the ability to perform complex patterns. Painted birch balasins can be given the form of a mahogany, gray maple, structural walnut.

Pine

The main advantage of pine wood is ease of processing due to the soft texture. The tree has a pleasant resinous aroma, with due impregnation resistant to high humidity and rotting. Pine is well treated with cutting and grinding tool. Due to the high porosity of wood, the paint absorbs unevenly, which reduces the quality of the coating, and with the time of balusters can darken.

Larch

The larch color varies from red-brown to brown shade. Wood hardness is inferior to oak material, but superior to its strength due to a large number of resinous inclusions. Additional advantage of larch - inconsistence of rotting and high strength. In the process of exploitation of balasins from larch, it does not cord, but in the drying process, education in the billets of internal cracks is not excluded.

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Dimensions

In order to correctly select an option for the design of the staircase panel by balasines, measurements and calculations of the staircase should be carried out at the design stage. The general view of the staircase and premises, the amount, length and width of the marches, the position of the sticky are taken into account. The number of balassine depends on the length of the structure.

Since the supports are primarily intended for fencing, you need to observe the distance between the columns. The dimensions of the balossine depend on the configuration and dimensions of the stairs, the standard column has a size of 50x50 mm.

Initial poles, columns and basic supports have unequal dimensions. The dimensions of the most moved products are presented in the table.

No. p / p	Name details	Form of product	Material of manufacture	Typical size of one unit, mm
one	Stamp initial	Ku	Larch	150x150x1250
170x170x1250
100x100x1250
120x120x1250
2.	Stamp initial	Ku	Oak	150x150x1250
170x170x1250
100x100x1250
120x120x1250
3.	Stamp initial	Ku	Pine	100x100x1250
120x120x1250
four	Stamp initial	Figured	Pine	80x80x1200.
100x100x1200.
120x120x1200.
150x150x1200.
five	Stamp initial	Figured	Larch	80x80x1200.
100x100x1200.
6.	Stamp initial	Figured	Oak	80x80x1200.
100x100x1200.
7.	Stamp initial	Figured	Ash	80x80x1200.
100x100x1200.
eight	Column		Pine	100x100x3000
120x120x3000
150x150x3000
nine	Baluster	Figured	Pine	50x50x900.
60x60x900.
80x80x900.
100x100x900.
120x120x1000
				150x150x1200.
10	Baluster	Figured	Larch	50x50x900.
40x40x900.
eleven	Baluster	Figured	Oak	50x50x900.
40x40x900.
12	Baluster	Figured	Ash	50x50x900.
60x60x900.

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For individual projects, it is worth contacting the masters who can order the manufacture of a balasine under the order. In the preparation of dimensional calculations, the specialists take into account the strength of materials and the load that different wood species can perceive. Therefore, the dimensions of the balaasine may vary, depending on the material of the manufacture. When the project is ready, proceed to the calculation, milling or cutting of the balossine.

Height

Depending on the shape and execution of the stairs, the height of the balusin ranges from 650 to 1000 mm. To get a reliable and durable fence, balasins are attached to the theettes or steps. Standard adopted height of support pillars in 900 mm. If products are performed under the order, at the request of the client, the height of the baluster can be increased.

You can calculate the height of the baluster by the formula: the difference between the height of the railing and the handrail is taking into account the width of the coating of the stage.

Dimensions of the stair panel according to GOST

At the beginning and end of the steps (if well, on each side), on the corners of the marches, there are high and more massive nursing pillars or columns with a thickened cross section, which give the construction a finished look.

Distance between Balyasyn

Purpose Balyasin - create a solid fence and increase the rigidity of the stairs. Therefore, when installing pillars, it is necessary to observe a specific step of the support racks. Requirements are regulated by GOS 25772-83.

The distance between the balusters of the stairs is:

Home wooden stairs - up to 150 mm;
Combined, on-screen railings - 300 mm;
Staircases in children's institutions - 100 mm.

In cases where there are children in the house, in order to safety, you can install balusters in 10 cm increments. When used to fencing flat bassine, they are installed often and close to each other to get an interesting picture.

The support pillars adorn the staircase and make it safe for operation. So that the structure looks aesthetically attractive, the balusters must fit the style and direction of the interior or exterior. Inter-storey or street construction can effectively combine the architectural ensemble of the structure into a single integer.