Save the 1939 Stairway

[jar546]

This is a massive renovation of a single family home and a pile of accessory buildings. The plan is to save these stairs and continue to maintain them as the sole means to access the bedrooms on the second floor. The railing will be removed and replaced and the stone treads will be replaced with wood. You just don't see designs like this anymore.

 

[jar546]

Therefore, replacing the handrails with code-compliant rails and changing the stone treads to wood can allow the stairs to remain even though they are non-compliant because the stairs themselves are not being replaced. Correct? It thought so.

 

[Msradell]

I agree with your position however I really wonder why they are replacing the stone steps with wooden steps? By doing that they're making significant changes to an historic structure. Of course by doing that they could probably meet today's code.

 

[Yankee Chronicler]

Is the structure on any formal registry of historic buildings?

 

[steveray]

Correct? It thought so.

In my code....yes

 

[ICE]

I really wonder why they are replacing the stone steps

Perhaps the stone is not in good condition.Stone might lash with the new decor.

 

[bill1952]

I wondered why they couldn't add something to railing to make it compliant - glass or an intermediate vertical - and leave the stone.