It has been awhile before I put one up.
Anyone know what is the code height for handrail?
I imagine it is 30-34″ off tread?
Any ideas where you can get some different types of handrail hardware?
Something a little different from the usual????????
Thanks
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The height is measured 1" behind the nosing, or right over the riser. 30-34" sounds right, but check your local codes.
In all the forums I travel around in I think I have posted this link more ofthen than any other. Generally I post it about once a month somewhere or another. What you probly really want to down load and read the PDF Visual Interpretation Of The IRC 2000 Stair Code. It doesn't apply everywhere but it's a good standard and it's a great document in terms of it "understandability" thanks to the photo illustrations.
"Any ideas where you can get some different types of handrail hardware?
Something a little different from the usual???????? " yeah .
Yup, try
Ref. #1-72 at the bottom of the page)
There are actually lots of others too I have references or catalogs for somewhere but those are the ones I have book marked on the web.
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Edited 9/8/2003 10:05:10 PM ET by Jerrald Hayes
Thanks for the link Jerrald. That is one if the best that I have seen yet. I printed it out . Thanks again
Don
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Thanks Jerrald,
Info was very helpful. You have quite the website yourself. You look like you really got your act together? and take on a wide spectrum of work. Do you work by yourself or have a crew? Just wondering.
Bill
I don't know if I should do another post on this but do you have any info on Cupola's? I am doing an add a level on my house and I think I don't want to do the skylite thing, I already have 7, light is great but loose too much heat in winter.
Do you have any info on proper scaling proportions on cupola's? I am looking to do a venting one with electric control window. Sort of like an electric skylite.
Thanks again.
You're very welcome Bill. Re:"You look like you really got your act together?" That's all relative because while I absolutely have got my act together in some areas I am just as much an out of control train wreck in others. I just don't make that "train wreck" stuff part of my publicly seen websites.
We do take on a wide spectrum of stuff. As you might have noticed from simple closet interior to themed environments. When people ask me what we do instead of saying stairs, trim, kitchen remodeling or what have you we try to say "we do projects". I think everything can and should be looked at with a "Project" mentality or frame of mind.
As of this year I actually don't work on the projects anymore since I'm working to get a second business going that does "Web and Information Technology Solutions for Builders, Remodelers, Contractors and other members of the Home & Garden Industry" That's the Paradigm-360 thing. I just do the office work, estimating, and sales although I also learning to hand that off and pass it on. However I did go back to work as a carpenter just recently to fill in while some of the troops took vacation. That was a trip. You wouldn't believe all the stupid mistakes you make when you've been away form it for just 8-1/2 months. Like reading the tape measure measurements when your holding it in your left hand!....Over and over again. Took me about three days to relearn that.
You probably should start another topic here regarding you cupola questions. That's a pretty high tech cupola "project" your talking about. You going to use it to vent interior living space and not just an attic I assume? Never heard of that being done before. If that's what your thinking that sounds like a pretty interesting treatment. I'll have to give it some thought.
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I've put in hundreds off stair rails in three different states. I always go a minimum of 34" and maximum of 36" plumb up from the front of the tread. I go 38" to the top of level rail. Never had one fail yet. Depending on your area exteriors may be another thing.