What is the most common code specification for tread depth on an interior stairway, running between occupied floors of a house?
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DanH wrote:
What is the most common code specification for tread depth on an interior stairway, running between occupied floors of a house?
10 inches.
Is that run or depth?
Dan
Minimum tread depth-10"
face of riser to tip of tread.