livingaboard wrote:
Looks good so far. The one thing I would be concerned with are the stairs. The spacing certainly isn't going to meet code which won't really matter unless you are selling the house or if you have small children over. Kids can easily fall through.
By "spacing" are you referring to the rise of each step, or the spacing of the side rails?
The rise is only 7" on each step, but if you're referring to the spacing of the side rails, if those aren't compliant then I would guess my steel pipe railing isn't either.
We don't have small children over much, but I have given some thought to their safety (and our liability). But when we do, I'll just make the garage off-limits to unsupervised ankle-biters. I have to do the same thing with the "old enough to know better" ATV'ers that think the power-line easement that runs across my land is public property.
I'm open to reasonable design changes that don't block the view if you have any ideas. I suppose some Lexan panels could be fastened to the railing if we did have kids here a lot. But, even if the rails were 100% child safe there would still be plenty of dangerous stuff in the garage that I wouldn't want them playing around.
:):)
