I have a single car garage with a sectional overhead door, I have space on one stucco wall for a 24 x 75 pedestrian door. will that size be acceptable since it is not the main egress door?
Because this garage is over 1,000 SF it falls outside the scope of a "private garage" and is, for code purposes, a "public garage". Section 311.3 Classifies "Parking garages, open or enclosed" as a group S-2 Occupancy. Because the Business Occupancy is a hazard to the S-2 occupancy, a fire barrier wall must be constructed between the two.
In the picture provided, I would say that is still a single portal frame opening. I think the intent was to prevent two portal frames immediately adjacent to each other using a common header. Example would be at the garage, where for example, multiple garage door openings are on the same wall plane and configured to use a common header over 2+ portal frames - that would be prohibited.
Irc The building code requires that a garage floor be sloped towards the door, but does not specify a minimum slope. It is usually 1/8” to 1/4” per foot. Here is the citation from the International Residential Code (IRC): R309.4: "The area of floor used for parking of automobiles or other vehicles shall be sloped to facilitate the movement of liquids to a drain or toward the main vehicle ...
Parking garages, other than private garages, shall be classified as public parking garages and shall comply with the provisions of Sections 406.4.2 through 406.4.8 and shall be classified as either an open parking garage or an enclosed parking garage.
When constructing split entry's, we alway's framed around the steel I-beam and post in the garage, installed gyp and taped the seams. Same on the fur-down (duct covering)and ceiling gyp, just tape unless spray texure was being installed, alway's thought that was the code..are we requiring something different now?
My local code enforcement official here in Maine said that I am allowed to build a structure if it is a one-story garage. The thing is, I can't find a definition of what a garage is either in the local code, state law, or the IRC (2015 is applicable for my town). For the sake of avoiding asking...
I am inspecting what looks like a mother-in-law apartment being built above an attached garage. This was an existing empty space above the garage. They don't want a landing on top of the stairway that goes to this space.. The stairway is being built in the garage but will have a wall built...
