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• The stair as tendered. Mastacon's email of 14 May 2026 (on tender R1) describes the stair as the steel spine / frameless glass configuration, and offered a standard stair as a saving, which we declined. So we understand the steel spine, open treads and frameless glass are in the price. The working drawings (rev H, WD 10 and WD 44) still show a 1000 mm plasterboard wall balustrade and closed stringers. Please confirm, and have the drawings updated. Tender item 19 (7 Oct): solid American oak treads on a black steel mono spine, frameless glass balustrade with a black rectangular handrail, side-mounted; and a plasterboard wall balustrade to the upper level. So the stair itself is glass, and the upstairs landing edge is a plasterboard wall.Meeting notes
• Upstairs landing balustrade: glass instead of the plasterboard wall (John, 7 Oct 2026). The short edge at the top of the stair, between the corridor to Bed 1 and the open stairwell (about 2.2 m long, scaled; see the diagram), is tendered as a 1 m plasterboard wall (item 19). We'd like it in frameless glass to match the stair, with the same matte black pin fixings, in all three dwellings. Please price it as a variation, and say what the glass fixes into at the floor edge and whether it changes the framing there. Priced 20 Oct 2026 as VO3, two options, on Variations; not yet decided.Meeting notes
• Treads: solid timber (open treads can't be laminate; WD 44's generic detail says Customwood, which we don't want). Which species and thickness? We'd like them stained to match the main floor (pictured as Cedar Mist DR6616; the floor product is still open), with a stained sample checked against an actual floor board before ordering.Meeting notes
• Open risers plus glass — confirm it complies for a short-stay property that will have children in it.Meeting notes
• Glass fixing: frameless glass held by round matte black pin (standoff) fixings, side-fixed along the stair and at the landing's floor edge, as in our reference images. What do they fix into on a mono-stringer stair?Meeting notes
• Handrail: WD 44 requires one (865 minimum). Important, please confirm (John, 25 Oct 2026): the tender (item 19) includes a black rectangular handrail side-mounted on the frameless glass. We'd like to swap it for a slim matte black round rail on the party wall instead, as the pictures show, so the glass stays clean and frameless. Please confirm this is a straight swap or a credit, not an extra, and that the wall rail meets WD 44 (865 minimum, continuous, fixed into the party wall without breaching its fire rating).Meeting notes
• Stair window: the tall fixed window beside the stair is marked AFW 5260×360 on the upper plan and 360×4960 on the lower. Which is it, and what is the head height?Meeting notes
• A pendant in the stairwell (our idea, not on the drawings): a cascade of opal glass globes on black cords, hung in the void by the tall window, lowest globe about 2.2 m above the entry floor. The electrical plan (WD 15) shows no lights in the hall or stair, so please price a ceiling point there, and advise how the lamps get changed about 5 m up over a stair.Meeting notes
• Tread finish (30 Sep): natural oak for now; smoked oak is dropped. Please also price oak stained to match the laminate floor and advise which you'd recommend, with a stained sample against a real floor board. Tread thickness?Meeting notes
• The hall storage cupboard upstairs (about 1.8 m × 0.6 m, full height) becomes the locked owner's cupboard for cleaners' supplies, spare linen and towels and toiletry refills (John, 4 Oct). Please allow a concealed keypad or smart cabinet lock on its doors (no visible lock; the black pulls stay as designed), and adjustable shelves inside. Battery or wired: if wired, power inside.Meeting notes