Hello everyone, since I previously received excellent answers to my questions on this wonderful forum, I'm trying again.
We are renovating our staircase to the upper floor, and since we've got something little and strange going on in the wife's belly, you become more concerned about safety. So my question is: Are there any rules for building a railing on the upper floor? Like height regulations, etc.? There are some pictures of how it looks with the railing today (Now there's nothing left of the railing so we have to build a new one, but you might get an idea of how far down it is to the stairs/floor if one were to fall down.)
It's quite a drop to the stairs/floor below, so you really don't want the child/children to fall down when they start climbing...
http://www.knecke.nu/Images.aspx
Thanks in advance
We are renovating our staircase to the upper floor, and since we've got something little and strange going on in the wife's belly, you become more concerned about safety. So my question is: Are there any rules for building a railing on the upper floor? Like height regulations, etc.? There are some pictures of how it looks with the railing today (Now there's nothing left of the railing so we have to build a new one, but you might get an idea of how far down it is to the stairs/floor if one were to fall down.)
It's quite a drop to the stairs/floor below, so you really don't want the child/children to fall down when they start climbing...
http://www.knecke.nu/Images.aspx
Thanks in advance
between 90-110 depending on how the stairs are designed, I don't think there are direct rules, but make it at one of your reliable heights and also make sure it looks good....
Hello, thanks for the answer. The reason for my question is that I had a friend over who claimed that there are some special rules for that designed by some authority (whatever that might be...) precisely because of child safety. That such fences are no longer built but old constructions can remain, but no new constructions in the same style.
But it's nothing that anyone else has heard/seen anything about?
But it's nothing that anyone else has heard/seen anything about?
In public places, it should be at least 110cm high and not "climbable" (i.e., no horizontal bars). At home, you can probably(?) have it as low as 90cm high. 110cm can create odd proportions, and the stair gates available for sale are, moreover, not even 90cm high. Make the railing/fence so that you can attach a stair gate in an aesthetically pleasing way and so that you can remove the gate when it's no longer needed. (Pressure-mounted gates can be used in a doorway, but they are not safe enough for a staircase.) Additionally, there should be a maximum of 10cm between any bars to prevent a small child from getting their head between the bars.