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Second floor external staircase - mandatory?
Are the International building codes available online somewhere?
I'm in the process of building a 2-story 5-plex in Ocean Shores, WA and the city says I have to place a staircase on the second floor balcony ( I disagree). As I understand, you only need this second egress on buildings 3 floors or taller. There is one internal staircase from the 1st floor to the second floor. Targus |
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wrote in message the city says I have to place a staircase on the second floor balcony ( I disagree). Does not matter what you think or can show in IBC. The local inspector wants a stairs, he will get a stair. The town has more money and lawyers that you can imagine and you can be assured the inspector will be a real PITA during construction. Save yourself a lot of grief and put it in. It will be much cheaper than winning. |
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In article , NOPSAMmm2005
@bigfoot.com says... On 11 May 2006 15:25:50 -0700, wrote: Are the International building codes available online somewhere? International! I think you need the Ocean Shores building code! Washington State has adopted IBC, what he needs is IBC plus any local amendments. The simplest solution is to tell the building official you would like to make sure you are in compliance, can he please show the specific code requirement. If it's there, he'll be able to show you. If it's not, he might back down. Or maybe not, in which case you have to decide whether you want to be a known PITA at the building department or not. -- is Joshua Putnam http://www.phred.org/~josh "My other bike is a car." |
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Second floor external staircase - mandatory?
In my city as in most, the applicable codes are at city hall and they will
let you look at and copy them while you are there (can't borrow). They actually copied about 12 pages for me and explained it just for a question, I wasn't even at the permit stage at that time. "Joshua Putnam" wrote in message .net... In article , NOPSAMmm2005 @bigfoot.com says... On 11 May 2006 15:25:50 -0700, wrote: Are the International building codes available online somewhere? International! I think you need the Ocean Shores building code! Washington State has adopted IBC, what he needs is IBC plus any local amendments. The simplest solution is to tell the building official you would like to make sure you are in compliance, can he please show the specific code requirement. If it's there, he'll be able to show you. If it's not, he might back down. Or maybe not, in which case you have to decide whether you want to be a known PITA at the building department or not. -- is Joshua Putnam http://www.phred.org/~josh "My other bike is a car." |
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Second floor external staircase - mandatory?
On Thu, 11 May 2006 21:19:23 -0700, Joshua Putnam
wrote: In article , NOPSAMmm2005 says... On 11 May 2006 15:25:50 -0700, wrote: Are the International building codes available online somewhere? International! I think you need the Ocean Shores building code! Washington State has adopted IBC, OK. Makes more sense then. Suspicious though. Is Washington considering seceding and joining Canada? Maybe they don't like it when they say they're from Washington and people think DC, so they're cutting their ties. what he needs is IBC plus any local amendments. The simplest solution is to tell the building official you would like to make sure you are in compliance, can he please show the specific code requirement. If it's there, he'll be able to show you. If it's not, he might back down. Or maybe not, in which case you have to decide whether you want to be a known PITA at the building department or not. |
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Second floor external staircase - mandatory?
mm wrote:
Suspicious though. Is Washington considering seceding and joining Canada? Maybe they don't like it when they say they're from Washington and people think DC, so they're cutting their ties. If so, there goes Boeing and Microsoft. |
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