Egress door — doors: code vs good practice

Code: 32″ clear, 78″ tall. Good practice: 36″ door.

Interior door — doors: code vs good practice

Code: no specific requirement. Good practice: 80″ tall.

Code: no specific requirement. Good practice: 30–32″.

Code: solid or 20 min, self-closing. Good practice: meet code.

Code: safety glass. Good practice: meet code.

Code: no specific requirement. Good practice: levers, 34–48″.

Fixtures · Chapter 18

Doors control access, sound, fire and weather. Most of the rules live in where they go: egress, garage, bedrooms and baths.

IRC R311.2 egress doorIRC R302.5 garage doorIRC R308.4 glass in doorsADA 404 doors (reference)

18.1

A door is a slab, a frame, hinges, hardware and (outside) weatherstripping and a sill. Prehung units come with the frame.

Hang it plumb; everything else follows.

The rest of Doors: 3 more spreads, 18 drawings and 7 code citations, plus every other chapter, is part of the full fieldbook.

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