Garage Door To Living Space Fire Requirements

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Garage door to living space fire requirements.

Attached garages must have a firewall separating the. Steel door with a solid of honeycomb core not less than 1 3 8 thick. To meet fire separation requirements the door must be one of three types of doors. The door cannot open directly onto a room used for sleeping purposes bedroom and must be one of the following types.

By glenda taylor in most communities building codes require the construction of a fire rated barrier between the garage and any living space. Reuben saltzman structure tech home inspections reuben saltzman july 31 2018. Most garages have a ceiling secured to the bottom chord of the roof trusses or rafters and that has to be 1 2 drywall also. A door with a 20 minute fire rating.

This also applies to structural members and this extends to the attic in a. There are requirements for the walls and ceiling door to the house hvac ducts and any other garage house penetrations. R302 6 dwelling garage fire separation. Walls and ceiling the wall between an attached garage and the house living area is required to be minimum 1 2 drywall.

The best term for this required separation is a fire separation wall. Doors separating the garage and living spaces shall be 1 3 8 solid wood solid or honeycomb core steel doors not less than 1 3 8 thick or 20 minute rated doors. In short the garage needs to be separated from the house in case of fire but this isn t a fire rated assembly nor is it a firewall. Openings from a private garage directly into a room used for sleeping purposes shall not be permitted.

The wall between a house and garage must be separated by 1 2 drywall. Let s take them one at a time. So for all these reasons the international residential code irc and residential edition of the florida building code fbc r302 5 have safety standards for a door that separates the garage from the house interior. Tuesday december 4 2018.

Solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 thick. R302 11 fireblocking item 4. Other openings between the garage and the residence shall be equipped with solid wood doors not less than 1 3 8 35 mm in thickness solid or honeycomb core steel doors not less than 1 3 8 35 mm thick or 20 minute fire rated doors.