Elevate Your Exteriors: Exploring External Decking Stair Balustrades

External stair balustrades have many practical uses, namely making your garden stair builds for any raised decking or balcony projects far safer. However, they can also imbue your garden with an additional design flourish, pairing beautifully with any pre-existing decking spaces. In this article, we will take a look at when to build external stair balustrades in your space, as well as showcasing the design advantages they have when implemented effectively. Let’s take a look.

NeoTimber’s composite railing is designed to be a modular, adaptive system, and can be easily installed onto both straight surfaces and as external stair balustrades. Fitting a raised deck or a balcony space is a great way to make more out of an awkward raised garden, rather than simply digging up the ground and flattening it. To work out how many balustrade posts and rails you will need for your space, use our helpful calculator, which will give you an estimate of your requirements.

For more information, please visit our extensive installation resources, where we cover this process step by step, with corresponding diagrams. If you do not want to embark on a DIY project, contact our sales team, and we will be able to put you in touch with one of our approved installers.

Balustrades are an incredibly popular design choice for decking and balcony spaces, and as such, there is a wealth of different material options to choose from. Timber and glass balustrades remain a consistent favourite for many specifiers, due to their initial good looks. However, both these materials can be awkward to clean. Glass, as a transparent material, needs to be cleaned regularly and thoroughly to keep it looking its best, whereas timber will need to be annually stained and painted to retain its colour and moisture resistance.

With NeoTimber’s external stair balustrades, you can avoid these more time consuming maintenance tasks, and instead enjoy garden railings that will look as good as new for the long term. Available in 5 colours, with composite materials, you do not have to spend time painstakingly painting the surface of the balustrades in your preferred tone. Instead, choose from the naturalistic Teak and Chocolate, the sumptuous Charcoal, or the more neutral toned Antique and Grey.

The capped composite shell of our external stair balustrades houses a metal frame, which gives the posts and railing more strength and stability. Compare this with other kinds of balustrade materials, such as timber or glass. Timber is prone to cracking and splintering due to the effects of rot, and glass can shatter if subjected to enough force. A balustrade that breaks apart over time essentially negates the safety benefits that a balustrade product should provide. Injuries can happen even on smaller raised decking projects, as ankles can roll or break due to changes in how level the ground is.

A balustrade built to last is especially helpful for any garden stairs, as it offers an additional support for projects built at a height. Young children, the elderly, and people with physical disabilities need to feel properly secure, and our composite system can provide that. We are so confident in the structural longevity of our product, we’ve backed it up with a 25-year residential warranty, and a 10-year warranty for commercial projects.