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(lemmy.world)
General rules:
Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.
I'm a handyman. This will not pass an inspection because it lacks the handrail necessary to be code compliant. That's before even getting into tread width and lack of trip resistant rise.
Don't need an inspection if you do it yourself
In most cases you'll need an inspection when you go to buy a home. Anytime you're changing a house you have to ask yourself "Will this hurt the ability to resell it later on?" This is going to end up on an inspection report and it's either going to have to be remedied or it's going to drop the value.
Which code though? There is no indication of where this is located. It might be perfectly fine.
Haven't you heard? We don't do regulations in the US anymore.
Codes are enforced at finalized at the local level. We've only abandoned stuff at the federal level, so far.
We did back when this meme was new, though...