If your stair railing is old, dysfunctional, not to code, or simply not to your taste, you may have considered changing it ...

Several weeks ago, I shared a story with you about a young woman. She attends our church, and my wife and I are friends with her. A week ago she reached out to me with a new problem. She was ...

We are redoing a stair landing and wanted to know if a guardrail is required by code? The landing is less than 30″ above the finished Residential Code we do not need a guardrail, but NYC’s code does ...

Q: One section of the stair railing in my 1903 condominium has been broken and poorly repaired for many years. Some wood is missing, and there is filler of some sort and a metal band. I asked a ...