MarkhamBuilding InspectionsInspections
Windows Over Stairs, Ramps & Landings
Published by City of Markham
This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Markham
- Date
- January 1, 2025
- For
- builder
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 2
- Instruments
- Supplementary Standard SB-7
Overview
The City of Markham Building Standards Department's Builder Tip No. 53, dated January 1, 2025 and updated to the 2024 OBC, on glazing over stairs in dwelling units, filed with the City's housing tips under the 2024 Ontario Building Code. It quotes Sentence 9.8.8.1.(7) on glazing less than 900 mm above treads, ramps or landings, and its objective describes guards at low stairwell windows, a picket guard's height, spacing and climb-resistance, guards drawn in Supplementary Standard SB-7, safety glass guards, and non-openable windows built to guard loads.
What it covers
- 9.8.8.1. Required Guards
- Objective
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