"DerbyDad03" wrote
as 'suitable for a person of 4ft5in to be able to egress without having
to
drag any furniture over. A built in sort of window-seat was acceptable
in

able to hold up to 300lbs or something like that. Window-seat could not
be
obstructed (like, used to hold a 70 gallon fish tank).

Let's see...Code requires a platform so a 4' 5" person can egress and
the platform has to support 300 lbs.

How many 300 lb 4' 5" people do you know? ;-)

Grin, it does look funny. Its actually 2 separate issues there. 1 was the
height and the 'other' was the load bearing as our window was high enough it
couldnt count as an egress without the 'built in step' (window-seat in our
case).

Think of it as a kid and his mother trying to escape. The kid is 4ft5in and
the momma is pregnant with another one g.