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Re: Window height
Richard,
Correct, new wording to the 2006 IRC.
The old South Florida Building Code - Broward County Edition required guards at windows when the drop outside was greater than 4' and the sill was less than 30" if 24" wide or wider, and, where the drop is 4' or less outside, there were other options.
The above was changed in the 2001 Florida Building Code, HVHZ (High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which is Broward and Miami-Dade counties), but still required safeguards in many instances (to long to post here, and that went out with the 2004 Florida Residential Code anyway).
That's called 'consensus weakening of the codes', just another example of how codes become weaker the more people are involved in making of the code.
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