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Best railing height for old-fashioned-looking front porch (WAS: Okay to have different window styles?) Sasquatch 10-05-2006
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Posted by Rudy on October 5, 2006, 10:42 pm
>> What is the best railing height for an old-fashioned-looking
>> wrap-around front porch?

Sit in a chair on the porch admiring the view..then have someone hold a
yardstick upright where the railing will go.
I'd drop the railing til it doesnt block the view (but then I have see thru
34" high tempered glass "railings")



Posted by Kris Krieger on October 6, 2006, 6:29 pm
@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

>
> Sasquatch wrote:
>> What is the best railing height for an old-fashioned-looking
>> wrap-around front porch?
>
> The perfect height for any railing is exactly the same height as the
> height of the beer sitting on it.
>
>

Hmmm, I'd add, "such that one's hand extends comfortably, without undue
stress on the shoulder or elbow, to grasp said beer".

;)

Posted by bowgus on October 7, 2006, 8:17 am


> Hmmm, I'd add, "such that one's hand extends comfortably, without undue
> stress on the shoulder or elbow, to grasp said beer".
> ;)

Yep, beer drinkers just know these things. Spontaneous evolution?
Perhaps.


Posted by Kris Krieger on October 11, 2006, 4:54 pm
@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

>
>
>> Hmmm, I'd add, "such that one's hand extends comfortably, without undue
>> stress on the shoulder or elbow, to grasp said beer".
>> ;)
>
> Yep, beer drinkers just know these things. Spontaneous evolution?
> Perhaps.
>
>

Hmmmm, perhaps similar brain structure, and therefore similar function, in
the Corpus Beerosum...

Posted by Don on October 5, 2006, 9:49 pm
"Sasquatch"> wrote
> What is the best railing height for an old-fashioned-looking
> wrap-around front porch? Here's a link so you can see the porch in
> question:
> http://www.mynewoldhouse.com/house/images/FrontElevationLRG.gif
>
> How about 30"? The code for most areas is 36". But, like I said, we
> do not have to follow code because or porch is close to the ground.

The ground is pretty hard to a drunk, especially the next morning, and even
more so when he does a somersault backwards over a 30" railing. LOL



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