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Old 01-25-2006, 09:34 PM   #21
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Re: Spacing For Rails On Deck. Codes

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For what its worth, I was told by a an inspector that the reason for 4" spacing or less is to prevent a toddler from getting his/her head through the space and possibly falling off the deck.
Yup...that's what I've been told, but it's also to keep the little tikes from getting JUST their head through the ballusters and getting stuck at the shoulders...from what I was told it has been a frequent enough occurence that those codes are pretty much the same everywhere.

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Re: Spacing For Rails On Deck. Codes

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Originally Posted by rjordan392
For what its worth, I was told by a an inspector that the reason for 4" spacing or less is to prevent a toddler from getting his/her head through the space and possibly falling off the deck.
Yup...that's what I've been told, but it's also to keep the little tikes from getting JUST their head through the ballusters and getting stuck at the shoulders...from what I was told it has been a frequent enough occurence that those codes are pretty much the same everywhere.

BTW, what's missing from the thread? Everything looks normal to me...
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