handrail code

[roger wiegand]

"So most handrails in modern houses / expensive houses don't meet code?"

Is this true? We live in the land of pretty expensive, nice houses and I don't recall seeing a newly constructed one that I thought didn't meet code. Happens all the time in old houses, of course, but the architects in our part of the world don't seem to have too much difficulty complying.

[William Hodge]

It seems like aesthetics are often more important than personal injury.

I read once that architects who design stairs should be forced to hang from their railing over a vat of something awful for 10 minutes.