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SNYDERSTAIRS
Contractor-led stair install with dark treads and a carved newel — Lehigh Valley
✦ Contractors · Builders · Designers — Lehigh Valley + Northern NJ

Stairs and railings —refer them or sub them.You stay the GC.

Refer us, sub us, or just call when you hit a stair scope you don't want to touch. Flooring contractor with a one-stair job, custom builder on your 4th community, or designer specifying for a high-end project — same Snyder shop, our own crew, same trade pricing. No accounts, no signup.

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(610) 443-2240Contractor pricing · no accounts, no signup

Trade terms at a glance

  • 2–4 weeksTypical lead — crated to your framing date
  • COIWe provide a certificate of insurance
  • CADPlan / elevation / section for complex, curved & custom stairs
  • Trade pricingBetter-than-retail pricing on new construction
  • No accountsNo signup, no minimums — just call
  • One roofWood + iron coordinated and built in Whitehall, PA

How we work together

Refer it, sub it, or buy the parts.

Pick the lane that fits the job — you stay in control either way. This is the one place we lay the three out; the FAQ below just answers the edge cases.

  • Refer

    Refer your customer — stay the GC.

    • We run the full design + selection and build the price
    • We contract and bill the homeowner directly
    • Your name comes off it once you've made the intro
    Call (610) 443-2240

  • Sub

    Sub the stair-and-railing scope to us.

    • We measure, build, and crate on your schedule — railings installed by our crew
    • New-construction stairs 2–4 weeks, crated to your framing date
    • A Snyder shop foreman on the phone through install
    Call (610) 443-2240

  • Wholesale

    Buy parts at contractor pricing.

    • Wood + iron parts at trade pricing, shipped from Whitehall
    • Priority on open contractor projects
    • Free phone support — no time-tracked billing
    Browse the catalog
What you get

What every contractor gets

Beyond the trade terms above — the things that make a Snyder job easy to run.

  • Priority scheduling

    Open trade projects get scheduled ahead of walk-in work. Call early in your project timeline and we fit the build to your schedule.

  • Free phone support

    Talk to a Snyder shop foreman by phone during install — call, send pictures, get answers. No time-tracked billing, no consulting charge.

  • Spec consulting

    Send us drawings and we'll spec the part list — no charge for repeat contractors.

  • Designer samples

    Specifying for a client? Physical wood + iron samples shipped to your studio, with code-compliance notes ready to drop into your set.

  • Walk-in parts

    Finish carpenters and trim guys can walk in to the Whitehall shop for standard profiles — or call to confirm stock before you drive.

Who we work with

Built for the scope you bring us.

Six kinds of trade jobs come through the Whitehall shop every week. Find the one that matches your work.

  • Oak stair treads with satin-black iron balusters — treads matched to refinished floors01
    Flooring contractors

    Let us manage the railing and staircase portion of the job.

    When a homeowner asks who you use for railings, the stair scope is a barrier to your own sale. Refer them to us and we contract, design, and bill them directly — OR buy parts at trade pricing and run your own railing and baluster installs.

    • Customer referral — Snyder contracts directly with the homeowner
    • Parts at trade pricing — buy materials for your own installs
    Call us about your floor job
  • Transitional white-oak handrail with black iron balusters in a sunlit stairwell — GC remodel work02
    General contractors

    Hire us as subs for the stair-and-railing portion of the remodel.

    Order new staircases for the home you're working on, or contract us for the railing install. We deliver stairs ready to set and install railings ourselves. Snyder integrates with your build schedule.

    • Order custom stairs for your remodel
    • Snyder measures, builds, and delivers the stair
    Call us about your GC project
  • Dark-tread stair install matched to a Lehigh Valley finished basement aesthetic03
    Basement remodelers

    Order finishing stairs and railing install for basement renovations.

    We make sure the basement stair meets code (rise/run, handrail clearance, riser height) and matches the finished basement aesthetic — not the unfinished utility stair.

    • Code-compliant rise/run + handrail systems
    • Stair fabrication matched to finished floor species
    Call us about your basement
  • Wood stair posts in domestic hardwood, stocked at the Whitehall shop04
    Trim carpenters

    Order materials at trade pricing for your own railing installs.

    Wide selection of parts in stock — domestic hardwoods and imported, pre-finished iron, several styles ready to go. Vast install knowledge available by phone.

    • Wood: white oak, red oak, poplar, hickory — plus more
    • Iron: powder-coated baluster patterns in satin black + more
    Browse parts catalog
  • Grand curved staircase with warm bronze iron and chandelier in a foyer — custom new-construction work05
    Stair & railing contractors

    Custom stairs at trade pricing for your new-construction jobs.

    Order custom-made staircases at trade pricing. Site measures available. Parts and material supply for your jobs.

    • Custom-made stairs at trade pricing
    • Site measure service available
    Call us about your project
  • Carved newel and finial detail in dark stained wood — defensible designer spec detail06
    Designers + architects

    Spec a stair you can defend to your client.

    Snyder is the Lehigh Valley fabrication shop interior designers and architects spec when the stair has to carry the room. For complex, curved, or fully custom stairs we draw a CAD plan, elevation, and section so everyone signs off before a board is cut. Physical wood and iron samples shipped to your studio, plus code-compliance notes ready to drop into your set.

    • CAD plan/elevation/section for complex or curved stairs
    • Physical wood + iron samples shipped to your studio
    Call us about your spec
How an order runs

Measure to install — one shop, one crew, your framing date.

  1. Illustration — field-measuring a staircase opening on a job site.
    Step 01 of 05

    Site measure

    We come out and field-measure the rough opening, rise and run, and landing conditions — so the stair is built to the house, not to a guess.

    Scheduled to your framing window
  2. CAD plan and elevation shop drawings for a custom stair.
    Step 02 of 05

    CAD + shop drawings

    For complex, curved, or custom stairs we draw the plan, elevation, and section, with code-compliance notes for the GC. Everyone signs off before a board is cut.

    Drawings back same week
  3. Stair components being cut, fit, and finished on the Snyder shop floor in Whitehall, PA.
    Step 03 of 05

    Built in our Whitehall shop

    Wood and iron are cut, fit, and finished on our own floor in Whitehall, PA. Sourced parts coordinated under the Snyder umbrella, no subbed-out fabrication — our own crew owns the build start to finish.

    New-construction stairs 2–4 weeks
  4. Stair components staged on pallets, crated for delivery against the framing date.
    Step 04 of 05

    Crated to your framing date

    Components are crated, tagged by unit or location, and delivered against your framing date — not ours. Your framers don't wait on the stair.

    Delivered on your schedule
  5. A finished Snyder staircase with iron balusters installed in a Lehigh Valley foyer.
    Step 05 of 05

    Set by your crew · railings by ours

    The stair arrives crated, ready for your crew to set — we install the railing work ourselves. Either way the paperwork's signed and the customer stays yours.

    1–3 days on site

Recent work

Built for builders across the Valley.

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Built for the trade

Why contractors keep the stair scope with us.

You've got three ways to cover a stair-and-railing scope. Only one runs to your framing date, gets your COI back fast, and — when you refer it — bills the customer directly so you can step away clean.

Lead time
Snyder Stairs
New-construction stairs 2–4 weeks, crated to your framing date
Other stair shops
"We'll get to it" — no date on the contract
DIY / GC self-perform
Your crew learns a new trade on the clock
Trade pricing
Snyder Stairs
Volume-based trade pricing, best tier for new construction
Other stair shops
Retail list with a vague "trade discount"
DIY / GC self-perform
Full retail parts + your labor eats the margin
COI turnaround
Snyder Stairs
Certificate of insurance back pretty quick — no signed packet
Other stair shops
Routed to an office, back "sometime"
DIY / GC self-perform
N/A — but now it's your liability
Accountability
Snyder Stairs
Our own crew measure→install; if it loosens later, we come back and fix it
Other stair shops
Fabrication subbed out, install on you
DIY / GC self-perform
Callbacks land on your phone, not ours
Who owns the customer
Snyder Stairs
Refer it and we bill them directly — your name comes off it clean
Other stair shops
They quote your homeowner behind you
DIY / GC self-perform
You own it — and every stair question that follows

Family-owned & veteran-owned in Whitehall, PA since 1987 — two generations of stair specialists. If something loosens later, we come back and fix it.

Contractor FAQ

The questions the trade actually asks.

Yes — they're the two models in the cards above. Refer it and you're out of the trade entirely (we design, price, and bill your customer; your name comes off it); sub it and you stay the GC (buy parts or stairs at trade pricing and install with your own crew, foreman on the phone). The only rule: use one or the other on a given job, not both.

Contractor pathway

Just call — no signup needed.

Trade pricing, priority scheduling, free phone support. No application form. Tell us what kind of work you do and we'll talk through pricing and scheduling on the phone.

Call (610) 443-2240

Budget on the first call · (610) 443-2240 · Whitehall, PA

Custom stair installation — contractor-led