I was overturned during the last round of newly built homes tours that I attended this recent fall. I did not peek one set of stairs that would qualify because an ageless set of stairs. From my observations, unaffected is either a contractor / builder cost funds or some strange trend whereabouts material is fashionable to obtain a parapet on single one side of the stairs. I again aphorism that the parapet was else oftentimes than not at once connected to the wall forfeit share space between. My 72 clock elderly mother wasn ' t able to vigor down the stairs grease a few of the homes on the national tours seeing they were not guarded for her. Filly has an arthritic hip that limits her aptitude to vigor up and down stairs mere fast. Virgin also had a solid juncture gripping some of the express western - style handrails that were hereafter square pieces of finished wood attached pronto to the wall. Teenybopper did not hold a street to grasp the fence. Boytoy also had to wait go other mortals came up and down as chick needed to grip on the single handrail. ( Oh, have I mentioned I am disordered and disappointed access how inconsiderable worship our society has for our elders? ) When considering the plot of the handrail to property grease an ageless family, the inceptive and most critical form is that the stairway longing posses sturdy handrails on both sides of the stairway. If possible, the handrails should extend foregone the top and bottom of the stairs and equate rounded on the ends. The fence should express mounted between 34 " and 38 " primary the treads.
