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    Default Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Is that a sliding glass door on the back wall?

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Be nice now.

    ' correct a wise man and you gain a friend... correct a fool and he'll bloody your nose'.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Quote Originally Posted by Clay White View Post
    Yes, two very large sliding glass doors....
    Being nice now ...

    Those are your EERO.

    Don't worry about the sizes of the windows.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    "now what about the front windows for the same house."

    Now those are to small for EERO

    "I'm also thinking the height is too hight from the ground to the windows, no more than 44"?"

    It's height above the Floor, not the ground. But either way those windows look to small for EERO.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Quote Originally Posted by Clay White View Post
    Thanks, I was thinking the same thing...now what about the front windows for the same house.

    These windows are installed in a bedroom. I'm also thinking the height is too hight from the ground to the windows, no more than 44"?
    Not only do those front windows not meet EERO requirements, but I doubt they meet minimum requirements for natural light and ventilation either.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    That place looks like it might have been a crematory in the past which would explain for the lack of windows at the front of the structure.


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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Thanks alot Jerry.

    I just about lost my dinner with the comment about the sliding doors.

    Lets hope that the screen door is not ever latched though. They'll stand there and burn up trying to figure a way out.

    rick


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    Thats funny, I was thinking it looked like an old Dr's office or lab of some kind. But either way, IT'S BUTT UGLY (frrom what I can see).

    ' correct a wise man and you gain a friend... correct a fool and he'll bloody your nose'.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Clay,

    The room in the first pic does not look like a bedroom to me.

    The lower windows in the first pic should be safety glass if the area is greater than 9 sq.ft. Looks to me like they are.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Quote Originally Posted by Rick Cantrell View Post
    IT'S BUTT UGLY
    Those EXACT words came to my mind and I almost posted them, then said 'Nah, I'm trying to be nice.'.

    "BUTT UGLY" it is!



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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    Hey
    I WAS being nice.

    ' correct a wise man and you gain a friend... correct a fool and he'll bloody your nose'.

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    Default Re: Windows: Emergency escape & rescue

    We have some of those type houses around here - 50's. I have heard them referred to as "hollywood homes". Figures.


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