Hi all - I'm hoping you could offer some advice on a situation.
Background - The house I'm in the process of selling has a stairway to the basement that's a little more open that it should be. See attached picture. My municipal inspector never said anything about the stairway when going through the house for my pre-sale inspection. I have an offer on the property. The buyer is going for FHA financing which I hear can cause issues, so they are trying to get me to build a railing as part of the home inspection findings.
Anyway, I need to build a stair railing to infill this opening. Because the bottom of the stair is very cramped, my thought was to terminate my railing at a newel post where the drywall knee wall ends on the right. Leaving the last two treads exposed would make life a lot easier for moving furniture, etc. Would I have a potential code issue if I stopped the railing at the end of the knee wall short of the last two treads?
Also, is 36" to top of rail from end of tread the correct height? It's been a few years since I had to build a railing.
Background - The house I'm in the process of selling has a stairway to the basement that's a little more open that it should be. See attached picture. My municipal inspector never said anything about the stairway when going through the house for my pre-sale inspection. I have an offer on the property. The buyer is going for FHA financing which I hear can cause issues, so they are trying to get me to build a railing as part of the home inspection findings.
Anyway, I need to build a stair railing to infill this opening. Because the bottom of the stair is very cramped, my thought was to terminate my railing at a newel post where the drywall knee wall ends on the right. Leaving the last two treads exposed would make life a lot easier for moving furniture, etc. Would I have a potential code issue if I stopped the railing at the end of the knee wall short of the last two treads?
Also, is 36" to top of rail from end of tread the correct height? It's been a few years since I had to build a railing.
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