Steep stairs are one thing, but putting carpet on them is just asking to slip.
My old house had some steep stairs that felt like this.
My wife broke her ankle on them, fun story… Nope. That sucked.
At what point does a set of stairs become a wall? How thin can steps be before they are no longer considered steps?
I don’t know but I think it’s fair to say if it becomes necessary to ask those questions then you went too far.
I would assume when you can no longer stand on them.
I know it’s stupid, but it’s posts like this that make me really wish that the fediverse had gold badges to award
Wtf, why didn’t you tell me you were coming over?
(Thankfully not nearly as steep)
“Time for bed! Who’s gonna belay me?”
I’ll sleep at base camp tonight and try for the summit in the morning.
Lol if you can afford to buy a house with an upstairs, you can afford an autobelay
Dutch stairs. Yes, they’re like that.
Yep can confirm this is standard issue in slightly older Dutch houses.
Looks like an advanced Doom II map.
Just missing a teleport at the top to simulate a second floor, or a silent téléporter if you’re really fancy.
House of Leaves vibes
When my siblings and I were kids, we would ride laundry baskets down the stairs.
These stairs would be fucking rad to do that with.
Once, anyway.
Riding the laundry basket off the roof would be more comparable
Where I come from we call these, “up only” stairs. Kind of like how Perl is a write-only language.
I guarantee I can get down them. Very quickly.
Just give me a sec to put on my jump kit.
At this point, just use a ladder. It’d be safer too.
That would also make space for a slide-down pole, which would be faster.
Extreme inner city house attic stairs vibes. Anything goes with attic stairs!
I’ve been looking for attic stair options. Anything that easier to carry/slide boxes down than a ladder.
You’ll be thankful for anything more sloped than a ladder 😂
It’s illegal tho
Depends.
Houses that were built before specific regulations came into force are almost always grandfathered into the old ones.
I myself live in a house built in 1900 which has steep stairs that would be illegal today, but it predates the regs and gets a pass.
Clearly this depends on Jurisdiction, but for example grandfathered in electrical outlets are fine but kitchens and bathrooms almost always need more expensive ground faulted receptacles according to the National Electric Code. When human health and safety is a clear immediate risk such as this then it usually has to be torn out.
In California they have CEBC based on the IEBC, which requires old buildings to meet their own separate building codes.
