Is it that a 4″ sphere cannot pass through…………
or is it that a sphere no larger than 4″ can pass through?
Promise to buy a code book after this.
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First one.
Leave me outta this..
A four inch sphere can not pass through
Doug
Wonderful.
I just bought 60 ft of railing system and the 2x2 ballusters are 4" inside to inside.
Maybe I can get the BI to blow up the ball just a teeny bit more.[email protected]
Lots of high-build paint.
Forrest
I was thinking along the lines of duct tape actually;)[email protected]
3.99999999999999" passes.
4.0' get's rejected.
But I think most BIs at least the one's I've been dealing with accept 4.0" but not too often my layout comes out exaclty at 4"
I'm looking around and seem to get conflicting; "no more than four inches" and "less than four inches".
I'll call the BI first thing Monday.
My bad (maybe). Been paying attention to too many things this week and being micromanaged to boot. I assumed the rails would be made to code till I measured them.[email protected]
Never mind. I'm stoopid (and paranoid) today.
I measured the spacing with out a ruler (mmmmmmmmm) and it appeared to be 4".
It snot at all.
Bless you![email protected]
4 inch sphere is for landings. Stair flights can allow a sphere no bigger that 4 3/8 inches. This is according to 2006 International Residential Code.
http://www.stairways.org/pdf/2006%20Stair%20IRC%20SCREEN.pdf
Check out photo 38. 4 3/8 inches.
This is a great link by the way.... just not sure how it pertains to decks.
Edited 8/3/2007 9:59 pm ET by Brady T.
Wow!
That was awesome.
Thanks so much for that.
Eric[email protected]
Eric
The last house that I did we used some iron balusters and we wanted two to a tread - unfortunately the only way that we could do it was with about a 4 1/2" space - called the city and they gave us an OK to do it, no problemos!
I didn't even see the inspector check the space so.............
Doug
Edited 8/3/2007 10:50 pm ET by DougU