Attic Ladder Fire Code

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Attic ladder fire code.

It may be easier to install a regular non fire rated attic access in the garage then make sure that the walls of the garage that abut the living area are 1 2 or 5 8 whichever is code in your area from foundation to roof line. Provide a minimum of 6 8 of headroom the entire walking length of the stairs. You attic access should be able to be fire resistant for at least 10 minutes. To convert your attic to living space you cannot provide access via a ladder.

Fixed ladders on outdoor advertising structures covered by article 11. The international residential code irc is similar. And standard ceiling openings of 22 5 in. Fire as a cause of injury and death is the main reason for these restrictions.

The fakro lsf fire resistant attic ladder provides easy and safe access to the attic and at the same time serves as a fire block during a fire inside the building. Fixed ladders on fire hose drying towers are not required to have a cage well offset platform or ladder safety device if they do not exceed 30 feet in length and provided their use is restricted to trained fire fighters or others equally trained in ladder use. What your attic probably does not have is a set of code compliant stairs. The 2009 edition of the international building code ibc and the 2006 edition of the international residential code irc offer guidelines regarding attic access although not specifically pull down ladders.

A modern system of folding the ladder enables the ladder to be folded to smaller lengths and therefore allows smaller sizes of loft hatch to be achieved. Weight capacity designed to fit ceiling heights from 8 ft. Let s say that a fire burns down your house in the future god forbid. 2009 ibc commercial construction.

Still the information might be of some interest to inspectors. The insurance adjuster can come and claim that the access ladder was not as per code as it let the fire spread into the attic and decline your claim. But when you put something else in the opening it must be equivalent to 1 2 drywall which has roughly a 20 minute fire resistance.