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Posted by mrsgator88 on October 7, 2006, 1:16 am
Code varies from town to town. Even when you're not in compliance with
code, inspectors will sometimes let things pass if its not unreasonable. If
they won't let it pass you can ask for a variance.
You need to stop being afraid of the code and the inspectors. It is what it
is and you'll have to deal with it sooner or later. Even if you can live
with things you don't like one day you'll be selling the house and how will
that be affected?
Sorry, but this is just getting annoying now. Call the town and discuss
this. Maybe everything is fine the way you have it. Maybe you don't even
need a permit.
>I have been posting on problems that I have had in building a 2nd level
> deck through a local contractor. The deck fits into an "L" corner of
> the house, so it borders the house on two sides, a pool on one side,
> and one side that has no structure against it.
>
> One of the issues was with the staircase leading to the deck. The
> staircase had a limited space where it could be put due to the
> proximity of a pool and pool fence. I guess that a stair case could
> be put on the only end of the deck not butting the house or next to the
> pool, although I would not prefer this, and once again this would
> entail more cost and time. The staircase was against a wall of the
> house, and the eve of the house is quite low relative to the level of
> the deck. The staircase is pretty much up against an exterior wall of
> the house with an eve extending 15" past the wall of the house and over
> the staircase. The staircase goes up to the deck at a similar angle
> to the eve of the house. After the contractor had partially
> constructed the stairs it became clear that as he had constructed it, I
> would hit my head (im 5' 9" ) at multiple places goin g up the
> staircase if I walked up the side of the stairs next to the house) ,
> so I paid the contractor to tear it down. Now he is planning to
> reconstruct it at a steeper angle than previously which allows adequate
> head clearance (over 74") until the final step onto the deck. The
> final step onto the deck only has about 66" on the portion of steps
> against the house. The portion of the steps (about 27" of stair width)
> has no eve above it so it is totally clear.
>
> Would the fact that 15" of the last step onto the deck has low head
> clearance pass code? Once again, there is about 27" of width that has
> no eve above it. If this does pose a code violation, would it rectify
> the situation to place a rail at the top of the deck preventing
> stepping onto the deck at a location with eve above it? I personally
> can see no way to rectify this situation without tearing out the pool
> fence to allow movement of the stairs away from the eve of the house
> (of course having no pool fence is probably a code violation too), or
> totally moving the stairs to the end of the deck not next to a portion
> of the house or pool .
>
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