This is a quiz for those who do home inspections on Manufactured Homes. What is the required sill height for egress windows/emergency escape and rescue?

Well lets look into this a bit.

 

Most of us home inspectors know that the IRC (2012 IRC- 310.1) requires a sill height of not more than 44 inches measured from the finished floor to the bottom of the clear opening.  

 

(a) Every room designed expressly for sleeping purposes, unless it has an exit door (see§ 3280.105), shall have at least one outside window or approved exit device which meets the requirements of § 3280.404, the “Standard for Egress Windows and Devices for Use in Manufactured Homes.”

(b) The bottom of the window opening shall not be more than 36 inches above the floor.

(c) Locks, latches, operating handles, tabs, and any other window screen or storm window devices which need to be operated in order to permit exiting, shall not be located in excess of 54 inches from the finished floor.

(d) Integral rolled-in screens shall not be permitted in an egress window unless the window is of the hinged-type.

Manufactured home uses AAMA standard 1704-85 which is very similar to the IRC requirements of egress window openings.

 

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