With the on-going requirements to comply to SANS, many contractors, balustrade designers or installers are finding themselves in hot water. Many do not realise that the professional responsible for the design of a balustrade, staircase or pool enclosure system is also liable for any damages, injury or death caused by the failure of their facility. Steel Studio offers an aesthetically pleasing range of balustrades, staircases and pool enclosures that comply to the regulations set out by SANS. We offer to take the liability and worry away from the professional, like an architect, by giving them a product that complies to SANS and takes the correct load it is supposed to take. Unlike many manufacturers, we don’t have a range of products that you can necessarily pick off a shelf. Instead, we custom design a system that is unique for each project. We engage with our clients to identify their desired balustrade, pool enclosure or staircase requirements, from there we manufacture a final product that meets the atheistic desires of the client, while ensuring that it complies to the regulations of SANS. We are yet to discover another organisation that offers a customised, compliant solution for all of their projects, while being willing to take liability for their installation, should they chose the SANS compliant systems we offer. For many, it is difficult to understand the price discrepancy between a pre-assembled, non-compliant product with no form of liability guarantee and our custom made, SANS compliant and liability guaranteed products. While many can offer lower prices, none of our competitors can offer the peace of mind that comes with our range of SANS compliant balustrade, staircase or pool enclosures. By confusing consumers with a barrage of technical requirements that many industry professionals struggle to grasp, shady contractors will pull the wool over their client’s eyes and provide them with a dangerous and poorly installed final product that will put lives at risk and will almost certainly incur huge repair costs in the future. Unless you are confident that you can oversee and manage your contractors to ensure they are compliant, select the appropriate materials and follow compliant techniques, cutting costs on your installation will only result in you incurring far greater costs at a later stage. A balustrade installer that custom designs all of their products to each project’s specifications, that takes liability for their SANS complaint designs and offers products that comply with SANS, doesn’t come cheap. But ask yourself something; would you be comfortable if you knew that the people using your staircases or balustrades were putting their lives at risk every time they used your facility?