On Sun, 13 May 2018 20:32:36 +0100, wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:22:08 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Sun, 13 May 2018 11:00:45 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 5/13/2018 9:22 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

Well in my standard bedroom on the 1st (USA) or ground (UK) floor, I can
still only get out of the door. The window only opens at the top. And
anyone with a 2 storey house who sleeps upstairs has the same problem.
Unless someone provided a ladder for you to climb down, you're ****ed.


Fire truck will have a ladder. If the fire is forcing me out though,
I'd jump and risk a broken leg rather than burn to death.

The two front windows on my house exit to a porch roof, and the
window at the end of the hall exits to the garage roof which joins the
porch roof, where it is only a 9 foot drop to the ground, or to the
back of the garage where it is about 11 feet.
The main floor has 3 exits - front porch, rear deck, and through
garage. The basement exit is via stairs directly to the garage door.
If therer was a garage fire spread into the house and I was in the
basement "my goose may be cooked". There is a functioning smoke alarm
at the top of the basement stairs, as well as in the basement, the
living room of the main floor, and at the top of the stairway to the
upstairs, as well as CO detectors on each floor (2 in the basement)

We cut a door into our bedroom wall here but in my old house in
Maryland I installed sprinklers in the egress route.

OCD!

It was one of
those "split foyer" houses where the stairs between floors was a choke
point and the utilities were under those stairs. I installed
sprinklers under the foyer in the utility room, in the foyer and in
the hall on both floors leading to there from the bedrooms.
A fireman I know told me a few horror stories and I had to act. The
scary thing is this was the most popular house design around for years
up there. It probably still is.
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/72house.jpg
I had to fight to get a door in the lower level. Most did not have one
making this "one way out" from down stairs, up that staircase. They
ended up regrading the back yard and giving me my door as a condition
of the purchase. I am not even sure how that got out of plan review.

The easiest way to upgrade your house is to not tell anyone. It's your house and nobody else's business. If it puts people off buying it when you eventually sell it, well that's your problem.

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Why does a one-story brothel make more money than a two-story brothel?
Because there's no ****ing overhead.