Accuro WHRS 100 Waist High Hand Rail Scale

so here's a really quick and rough video in response to a deck builder that was asking about whether his unique handrail design would count as a graspable handrail so let's take a look at how we would find that answer you know rather than give a man a fish I'd rather teach him how to fish so here we are in the 2015 IRC section 311 7.85 for grip size and we were provided two prescriptive methods two for very easy verification that a handrail is considered graspable now do bear in mind this charging statement states it can be one of these two types or provide equivalent grasp ability so that's giving some authority to an inspector to determine that even though a handrail may not exactly meet these criterias if it provides an equivalent grasp ability as shown here then it's acceptable so let's look at the first criteria and we'll start with a simple one this is type one handrails with a ci