Fire Code Door Swing

Steel door with a solid of honeycomb core not less than 1 3 8 thick.

Fire code door swing. Here are examples we see during our inspections of when the safety standard has not been met. Building codes for exterior doors. A 1 1 see annex k for general information about fire doors. According to the international building code 2015.

If the room load is 60 and i have 2 doors the load on each is 30. Does the life safety code require the doors in my building to swing in the direction of egress travel. Nfpa 80 and fire doors and the codes the 2007 version of nfpa 80 states that annual maintenance inspections of fire doors is now required. A door in a means of egress should allow for easy opening and closing.

The way a door swings isn t determined by any residential code but there are patterns as to how a door opens depending on what room the door is opening. Most doors open into rooms so that traffic in hallways outside of them isn t obstructed. This standard regulates the installation and maintenance of assemblies and devices used to protect openings in walls floors and ceilings against the spread of fire and smoke within into or out of buildings. Exterior doors in homes and businesses not only provide security but they also serve as a vital means of egress during a fire or other emergency.

Door swing exit doors and exit access doors shall open in the direction of exit travel in the following situations. Except for a special form of horizontal sliding door and a couple of other exceptions the life safety code requires doors in a means of egress to be of the side hinged or pivoted swinging type. An opening has been cut into the bottom of an otherwise acceptable door to install a pet door. Solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 thick.

This could mean either side hinged. What determines the direction in which a door must swing. Fire door assemblies shall be inspected and tested not less than annually and a written record of the inspection shall be signed and kept for inspection by the ahj. If there is a fire in the area where occupants are they are already being exposed to smoke fire and heat.

1 1 1 with the exception of fabric fire safety curtain assemblies this standard addresses assemblies that have. But reading between the lines section 1008 1 2 says doors shall swing in the direction of egress travel where serving an occupant load of 50 or more. 1008 1 2 if a door is a required egress door it generally needs to be a swinging door that is hung on hinges or pivots. Exit doors which are required to have fire resistance rating shall comply with the relevant provisions for fire resisting doors under cl 3 9 2.

We had always assumed that when room capacity reaches 50 people the room needs 2 exit doors and the doors must swing out.