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04-20-2009, 05:04 PM #1
basement bedrooms without egrees
When Inspecting a basement bedroom without egrees windows, It is a good idea to recommend installing egress windows for the safety of occupant, or would this just cause more problems than the seller or buyer wants to hear.
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04-20-2009, 05:07 PM #2
Re: basement bedrooms without egrees
If it is does not have egress, it is not a bedroom.
Do you really base your inspection report on what people want to hear?
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04-20-2009, 05:39 PM #3
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I think you might want to check it out further. I believe it has expanded further past just bedrooms in lower levels that do not have egress.
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04-20-2009, 05:43 PM #4
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Not true.
If it is a bedroom it is a bedroom, egress or not.
Report it as a 'Fry Room 1 - you are not getting out of there alive.'
There are always three choices: 1) ignore it; 2) take money for it; 3) fix it/change it (i.e., in this case install EERO or make it not a bedroom)
But to just call it a 'Bedroom without the required emergency escape and rescue opening' does not get their attention. Calling it 'Fry Room 1' does get their attention - and that is what you want - their attention, NOW address what their choices are.
Yes, their choices include (getting back to what you asked) PROPERLY installing a PROPER emergency escape and rescue opening which includes a proper window well and a proper cover to keep people from falling in while not allowing anything to be set on top and keep one from getting out - I don't go for those flat grilles over the openings, someone could set a bunch of trash on that and you might as well not have a EERO. Angle it out and down from the wall so nothing can be set on it.
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04-20-2009, 05:45 PM #5
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Last edited by Jerry Peck; 04-20-2009 at 06:06 PM. Reason: Thank you Daniel, MUST HAVE
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04-20-2009, 06:01 PM #6
Re: basement bedrooms without egrees
Jerry Did you mean must have instead must not have egrees exit. ?
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04-20-2009, 06:03 PM #7
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would two exit doors take the place of the window.
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04-20-2009, 06:09 PM #8
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Yep, thank you, went back and changed it.
If not sleeping rooms and just habitable space, then the door from upstairs and a door up from the basement to the yard.
If sleeping rooms, then each sleeping room needs its own 'second exit', i.e., an EERO, which could be a door. Say you have a daylight walkout basement and two bedrooms against that wall, each could have a door to the outdoors. However, a common door in a hall would not be acceptable, would have to be directly from the bedroom.
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