California Building Code Exterior Door Landing

This code outlines door construction requirements the different types of hardware that should be used on residential structures and how landings or stairs must be designed when placed on the.

California building code exterior door landing.

The width of each landing shall be not less than the door served. Title 24 part 2 section 2 3303 i 1 and i 2. Landings when provided shall not reduce the width to less than one half the required width at any position in the swing or by more than 7 inches by a door when fully open. 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.

Every landing shall have a dimension of not less than 36 inches 914 mm measured in the direction of travel. Where a door opens over a landing the landing shall be at least as wide as the door and at least 5 feet long. A free standing object mounted on a post or pylon shall not overhang that post or pylon more than 4 inches 102 mm where the lowest point of the leading edge is more than 27 inches 686 mm and less than 80 inches 2032 mm above the walking surface. There shall be a landing or floor on each side of each exterior door.

Exterior landings shall be permitted to have a slope not to exceed unit vertical in 12 units horizontal 2 percent. Every landing shall have a dimension of not less than 36 inches 914 mm measured in the direction of travel. Regardless of the occupant load there shall be a floor or landing on each side of a door. Every landing shall have a dimension measured in the direction of travel equal to the width of the stairway.

Such dimension need not exceed 4 feet when the stair has a straight run. The width of each landing shall be not less than the door served. The width of each landing shall not be less than the door served. R311 3 floors and landings at exterior doors.

This allowance provides some design flexibility. Every landing shall have a minimum dimension of 36 inches measured in the direction of travel. Landing requirements for all other exterior doors for all non egress exterior doors the 2003 code update allows a 7 3 4 in.