How Much Do Steel Stairs Cost in Ontario? What Sets the Price
What drives the cost of steel stairs in Ontario: layout, stringers, treads, railings, finish, drawings and installation, and what to send for an accurate quote.
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Straight answers on rebar, structural steel, beams, lintels and fabrication, from the team that cuts, bends and welds it every day.
How Much Does Custom Steel Fabrication Cost? What Drives the Price
What drives custom steel fabrication cost: material, drawings, cutting, welding, finish and quantity, how shop rates work, and why online calculators miss.
How Much Have Steel Prices Increased in Canada? Tariffs and What They Mean (October 2026)
How much Canadian steel prices changed in 2025 and 2026 by Statistics Canada price indexes, the tariffs and quotas behind it, and tariff codes for plate and beams.
How Much Rebar for a 30x40 Slab? Worked Examples
Bar counts, metres and kilograms of rebar for a 30x40 slab and six other common slab sizes, in 10M and 15M at 400 mm and 300 mm spacing, with laps included.
How Much Rebar per Cubic Metre of Concrete?
Why there is no single kg of rebar per m3 of concrete, how to convert a steel ratio to kg/m3, CSA A23.3 minimums, and worked slab, footing and column examples.
How Much Weight Can a Lally Column Support?
Lally column load capacity explained with real manufacturer load table data, why height matters, the 36 kN telepost limit in Ontario, and how loads are estimated.
How Much Weight Can a Steel Beam Hold?
Why a steel beam has no single weight limit, how capacity is calculated to CSA S16, how span changes it, and a worked W-beam example with real section values.
How Much Weight Can C-Channel Hold? Load Tables Explained
C-channel load capacity explained: bending resistance for common Canadian channels, upright vs flat, why channels twist, and a worked channel design example.
How Much Weight Can Steel Angle Support?
What decides steel angle capacity in bending, tension and compression, why angle iron flexes and twists, and a stiffness chart by angle size and orientation.
How Rebar Is Priced: Base Price, Extras and Bulk Orders
How rebar pricing works in Canada: the base price, the extras added for size, grade, cutting and coating, wholesale vs retail, bulk orders and pricing by weight.
How Steel Beams Are Made: Mill to Fabrication Shop
How steel I-beams are made: melting scrap, casting beam blanks, rolling the W shape, testing and marking at the mill, then fabrication into a beam for your job.
How Steel Stairs Are Designed: Loads and Sizing
How steel stairs are designed in Ontario: code geometry, stair loads, a worked stringer load example, tread and vibration checks, connections and who signs off.
How Steel Stairs Are Fabricated (and When DIY Fails)
How a fabrication shop builds a steel staircase, from site measure and shop drawings to cutting, fit-up, welding and finish, and why DIY metal stairs often go wrong.
How to Buy Rebar in Ontario: Fabricators vs Supply Yards
Where to buy rebar in Ontario: home centres, supply yards, rebar fabricators and supply-and-install. What each is good for, what to send, and how delivery works.
How to Calculate Beam Camber: Formula and Worked Example
How beam camber is calculated: the deflection formulas behind it, units that trip people up, a worked metric example, camber along the span and rounding.
How to Calculate Dowel Bar Quantity and Weight
How to count dowel bars along a joint or wall, work out their length and unit weight, and total the tonnage, with worked examples for slab joints and wall dowels.
How to Calculate Stirrup Cut Length
Stirrup cut length formulas for closed, U, two-piece, crosstie and circular stirrups in metric bar, with hook allowances, stirrup counts and weight examples.
How to Calculate the Weight of Structural Steel
How to calculate structural steel weight: the density, the kg/m method for beams and tubes, formulas for plate, bar and angle, and a worked beam and post example.