Getting a Grip on Railing Codes

It’s Friday afternoon. The custom home you’ve been working on for the last eight months is finally done. A moving van full of the owners’ possessions is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. The owners have been hard to deal with since that delay in the move-in date, but they love the final product, especially the stairs in the foyer. With the building inspector halfway through the final inspection, you begin to muse that with the last check in hand you can straighten out that mess at the lumberyard and head off for your first free weekend in months. But your daydream is soon interrupted. “The place looks great,” you hear the inspector say,