Why you need a reputable staircase company for your Clydebank project

On one hand, they seem simple enough in their design and construction. In all honesty, the key in any staircase is its simplicity but, there is possibly no other construction in history that has held such importance as the staircase.

As you stand at the start of an exciting project – creating new or replacement stairs with a reputable staircase company in Clydebank – have you ever wondered where and who invented the staircase?

If you do, you will be joining many others who have spent some time attempting to find the answer to who invented the staircase. Who realised that stairs were easier to walk up and down, than a steep slope?

It seems that this is information lost in the chronicles of time. The first staircase – or one of the first examples – is believed to have been cut into a steep hillside 600 years before Christ.

But the staircase has not been a thing of beauty until recent times; centuries ago they were more a tool of survival. Back in the days when humans hunted and were hunted, when enemies lurked in every dark wood or mountain, being able to quickly leave an area was important. To be able to do so safely was something that stair treads cut into a steep hillside helped them to do.

Essentially, for hundreds of years, the stairs were the thing that made a difference between life and death. But, they did not become an object that was made from a material until much later and then, they were still a structure associated with the outdoors.

The first built staircase can be found, or some Historians believe, outside a temple in China, thought to have been built from granite. Confucius, the founder of Buddhism is thought to have climbed these steps (or ladder as they were often referred to) in 55BC.

Staircases have also played a part in many religious settings, associated with the stairway to heaven, to higher and better planes of existence and thought.

And then they came back full circle, quite literally, with the circular staircase in castles and the like once again being part of defence, and the struggle for life and death.

Your staircase

But, your stairs are something far more practical. They do not represent a place to a higher place, nor are they part of a life and death struggle. They are an integral and fundamental addition to a home or business where there is more than one level.

They are functional, yet beautiful… or they can be with the help of a staircase company in Clydebank to design and install them. Why not call us for a free quotation?