Last updated on december 18 2013.
Ground floor balcony egress.
The egress well must not interfere with the egress window fully opening.
An egress window can be long and squat tall and thin or perfectly square.
4 an egress door from either the uppermost storeyor the lowest storey in a dwelling unit as required in sentence 2 need not be provided a except as required by sentence 8 if that storey is served by a stairway that.
Egress window wells are required where the bottom of the egress window is below ground level.
Whatever the combination it must meet the minimum area.
The area of a window well shall not be less than 9 square feet with a horizontal length width of no less than 36 inches.
Means of egress continuity section 1003 6.
The path of egress travel along a means of egress shall not be interrupted by any building element other than a means of egress component as specified in this chapter.
For determining egress window sizes and placement the international building code holds that every bedroom must contain at least one egress window.
Thus the product of the opening width and height must be at least 5 7 square feet or else it is not an egress window.
The distance from the egress window to the back of the egress well must be at least 36 the minimum area of the egress well must be 9 square feet.
Egress window well code requirements.
B the uppermost floor level opens to a balcony not more than 6 m above adjacent ground level.
It s common for people to build a new home with the intention of adding a bedroom in the future.
If you are thinking you might add living space to your new home in the future it s important to understand the building code.
When the sill height of an egress window is located below grade common for egress windows provided for a basement a window well must be provided.
For ground floor windows this requirement is only 5 square feet.
Exterior egress balconies shall be separated from the interior of the building by walls and opening protectives as required for corridors.
Separation is not required where the exterior egress balcony is served by at least two stairs and a dead end travel condition does not require travel past an unprotected opening to reach a stair.