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Exterior door landing code.
Where the door opens into the stairway of a smokeproof enclosure the landing need not have a length of 5 feet.
Door landings stairways and guardrails.
Every landing shall have a dimension of not less than 36 inches 914 mm measured in the direction of travel.
The slope at exterior landings shall not exceed 1 4 unit vertical in 12 units horizontal 2 percent.
Where a door opens over a landing the landing shall be at least as wide as the door and at least 5 feet long.
The landing or floor on the exterior side shall be not more than 7 3 4 inches 196 mm below the top of the threshold provided the door does not swing over the landing or floor.
For all non egress exterior doors the 2003 code update allows a 7 3 4 in.
The different types of hardware that should be used on residential structures and how landings or stairs must be.
Landing requirements for all other exterior doors.
The width of each landing shall be not less than the door served.
R311 3 floors and landings at exterior doors there shall be a landing or floor on each side of.
The width of each landing shall not be less than the.
The exterior landing at an exterior doorway shall not be more than 7 3 4 inches 196 mm below the top of the threshold provided the door other than an exterior storm or screen door does not swing over the landing.
A landing is not required between a sliding glass door or an in swinging glass door and the top of an exterior stairway of 3 or fewer risers.
Every door must have at a minimum a floor area or landing with.
Code requirements for exterior doors are covered in chapter 10 of the ibc.
Sps 321 04 4 d d exterior landings.
Step down on the interior and up to two steps down to the landing on the exterior regardless of which way the door swings it can only swing over one step.
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A a width not less than the width of the door or the width of the stairway served whichever is greater.
Where exterior landings or floors serving the required egress door are not at grade they shall be provided with access to grade by means of a ramp in.
There shall be a landing or floor on each side of each exterior door.