Stair Handrail Left Or Right

Fittings are determined as left hand or right hand when ascending a staircase.

Stair handrail left or right. Imisspell is correctly quoting the International Residential Code. Looking for a different handrail profile or wood. If you look at them side-by-side you can see that the Right bends to the righthand side and the left bends to the left.

Our photographs above show at right a typical basement entry stair with an open railing - a child hazard - and at above left a twisting canted narrow no-railing basement stairway in a pre-1900 home. This is because most people are right handed and older people require more support going up than down. Welcome to Just Answer.

A stair rail is basically a guard rail along an open stairway. If one is holding the rail with his right hand going up all the designated fittings are right hand. When you go for a staircase with handrails on either side do you go up or down on the side where the handrail is free if your right handed do you go for the right if your left handed do you naturally go for the left or vice a versa.

Give us a call. On your basic staircase you can place the handrail on either side. In right hand open treads the left side of the stair tread intersects a wall or knee wall and the right side of the tread is exposed.

If however you are installing stairs in a public building you must install handrails on both sides to. Right hand open stair treads are the exact opposite of left hand open treads. Click the blue link under the red writing.

If it is a straight flight in one rise from floor to floor then usually on the right going up. I think you should put it on the left so that when you are coming down the steps the rail will be on the right. The steps in the photo at above right are dangerous because they.