RJJ
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Just can't get it right!
The IRC and IBC are full of pet peeves.John Drobysh said:One of my pet-peeves is graspable handrails.
The IRC and IBC are full of pet peeves.brudgers said:John Drobysh said:One of my pet-peeves is graspable handrails.
A position held on the basis of ethics, is never untenable.John Drobysh said:tiger - I may be a 'Master of the Obvious', but it would be a waste of even my less-than-precious time to point anything out to ol' brudgers. :roll:
Too set in his ways, too stubborn in the face of reality to accept his position as untenable.
I apologize for failing to assume you did not know how to properly employ "pet peeve" in a sentence.John Drobysh said:Poor guy didn't even realize that by 'pet-peeve' I meant one thing I always look for, NOT one that I wish weren't there. :? Maybe some day he'll realize how different the world is today compared with the good old days of his youth... NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :lol:
Doesn't meet the pet peeve requirement.Pcinspector1 said:Why would this stairway have to be built with treated material, it's a garage, is't above grade? Graspable handrail and kickers, is there anything else to fail?
No, but they have to have their seat belt on, and the car needs all kinds of safety design and equipment. A handrail is useless if you can't grab it, no matter how pretty it looks or how put out you would be to actually fail something that looks so good.brudgers said:A graspable handrail on someone else's house would not have made any difference.On the other hand if everyone was required to where a crash helmet, she might still be alive.
The handrails like that shown are reasonable for dwellings.
We don't outlaw driving because people die, either.
In the anecdote upon which defense of the code has been based, the sweet little old lady was carrying groceries.TJacobs said:No, but they have to have their seat belt on, and the car needs all kinds of safety design and equipment. A handrail is useless if you can't grab it, no matter how pretty it looks or how put out you would be to actually fail something that looks so good.
My comment was that the code requirements are absurdly excessive.TJacobs said:Good luck defending reasonable in court.
There's nothing ignorant about it at all.jar546 said:brudgers, your ignorance amazes me. There is a hell of a lot more that you don't know or hear about than what you do. I am one person and I can tell you that this is not the only fatalitiy from falling down a set of steps that I had as a call. I am only one person and can think of many. This one sticks out because of the eyewitness account.I would love to plan review your work. You are apparently smarter than the codes and sound quite full of yourself.