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   KFC | May 17, 2009 07:50am | #1

   Not where I live...

   k

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   KenHill3 | May 17, 2009 07:51am | #2

   Nope.

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   Ozlander | May 17, 2009 09:26am | #3

   Wouldn't pass my code for my house.

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   Piffin | May 17, 2009 01:12pm | #4

   How would you pile up books and laundry on the edge of that staircase if there was a railing there? You have to plan ahead for things like that.

    

    

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   Danno | May 17, 2009 05:58pm | #5

   Looks like a great place for a rolling pin collection!

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   jimAKAblue | May 17, 2009 06:07pm | #6

   It will only pass code without a rail if you store your antique roller skates there.

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   fingersandtoes | May 17, 2009 07:51pm | #7

   Looks fine to me. I've seen stairs like that all over the place... in Greek villages.

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   Piffin | May 18, 2009 12:48am | #13

   House I grew up in had stairs with no rail like that, but we put the couch right along that wall, so there was a soft place to land, unless Dad was napping there. 

    

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   fingersandtoes | May 18, 2009 03:06am | #14

   LOL!

   I was only half joking about the Greek villages. Those amazing white sculptural buildings with not a guard or rail in sight. By our thinking there should be bodies all over the place and yet somehow for several thousand years they have managed to survive.

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   IMERC | May 18, 2009 04:07am | #15

   'cept in the movies... 

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   ZippyZoom | May 18, 2009 04:15am | #16

   I recall going to more than one ancient castle in Europe where you have to climb a bazillion steps up the side of a stone wall with nary a hand rail in sight. If you are prone to vertigo, oh well....The same thing is common in SE Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, etc.), but there if you fall you nay be required to make a donation to the temple priests for the ritual to calm any Deity you may have offended through your stupidity.=====Zippy=====

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   FatRoman | May 18, 2009 04:18am | #17

   I've got that same stair/couch scenario about 5 feet from me now.Hasn't bothered me yet. But the random tread depth/riser height is a touch challenging some days.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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   florida | May 17, 2009 08:12pm | #8

   Wouldn't pass a building inspection but once the inspection is done you can do whatever stupid things you want. People do stuff like this all the time.

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   JTC1 | May 17, 2009 08:51pm | #9

   That would certainly not pass inspection here.

   That being said, I have seen this more than once, generally in city houses, rennovated in the late 70's to early 80's.

   Don't know how or if inspections were handled.

   Not a good idea......

   Jim

   Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
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   reinvent | May 17, 2009 09:37pm | #10

   When are you going to get a flat screen TV, that picture is lousy. ;-)

   On topic I wonder if a rail on the wall would suffice.

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   fingersandtoes | May 18, 2009 12:22am | #12

   I'm still not sure if he isn't pulling our legs.

   A rail on the wall would provide the handrail requirement, but it's safe to say any North American code also requires a guard on stairs of a certain height with pickets of a certain spacing which may or may not also need to resist climbing.

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   MSA1 | May 17, 2009 09:55pm | #11

   Doesnt get a green tag anywhere i've ever built.

    

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    CardiacPaul | May 18, 2009 06:44am | #18

    Are you kidding me, you can't be serious, Notched casing on a door to a bathroom with a pedestal sink below a staircase in a condo?!

    Thats four or five code breakers alone, someones going down!

     No one should regard themselve as "God's gift to man." But rather a mere man whos gifts are from God.

    
    

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    brucet9 | May 18, 2009 08:02am | #19

    Not code, but they were able to get that big couch up the stairs that way.

    BruceT
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   CardiacPaul | May 18, 2009 02:47pm | #20

   It is code, as long as you provide a dude in a red shirt ready to catch anyone that falls, yer set. No one should regard themselve as "God's gift to man." But rather a mere man whos gifts are from God.

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   fingersandtoes | May 19, 2009 02:31am | #21

   The shirt has to be red? Can't Crips catch just as well?

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   CardiacPaul | May 19, 2009 03:46am | #22

   Red,  read your code book. No one should regard themselve as "God's gift to man." But rather a mere man whos gifts are from God.