Looks to me like you are trying to prep it as a home theater room. As for your description, it is really confusing, due to you are jumping around. Can you put up a drawing of what you are trying to achieve, with the floor plan, and also a view as if standing facing the door, with the dimensions of height and step up or down for the door, when in the room.
Stepping Down Into Room. Code question
Hello good people. I am building a room in my attic soon. My situation is a little unique. I am building the room in my attic. It will be attached to an existing room via a hallway. The hallway has a step up to a 14" high platform. This is because my ceilings in my living room, kitchen and hallway downstairs are 10' and my bedrooms are 8'.
The room will be built on the subfloor which is 14" lower than the hallway. My question is building code going to prevent me from putting the door on the 14" platform and having a step down into the room? Or do I need to frame the wall about a 16" X 36" cavity past the existing step (creating a landing outside of the room). Attached are some pictures of the area:
Going in from existing room into the hall:
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Looking down into room:
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Looking from inside room into hallway:
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Thanks so much for the help!
The room will be built on the subfloor which is 14" lower than the hallway. My question is building code going to prevent me from putting the door on the 14" platform and having a step down into the room? Or do I need to frame the wall about a 16" X 36" cavity past the existing step (creating a landing outside of the room). Attached are some pictures of the area:
Going in from existing room into the hall:
Looking down into room:
Looking from inside room into hallway:
Thanks so much for the help!
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Here are a few sketches of the room and the room plan. The first one would be inside of the theater looking out into what will be the hallway. The floor in the hallway will be 14" higher than the floor in the theater room. I want to frame the wall with the door at the top of the 14" higher hallway. I want to put a step in the room itself.
Picture #2 is a sketch of looking into the room without the door on. Note in this picture it looks like the floor is high but it is not. What you are seeing is a riser that I will build for the second row seating. I can not extend the riser to the door as I will need to make walkways around the riser.
Picture #3 is the floor plan. The bottom rectangle is the hallway. The dark grey 55 sq ft is going to be unfinished storage. Thanks for looking and I appreciate any info you might have!!
Picture #2 is a sketch of looking into the room without the door on. Note in this picture it looks like the floor is high but it is not. What you are seeing is a riser that I will build for the second row seating. I can not extend the riser to the door as I will need to make walkways around the riser.
Picture #3 is the floor plan. The bottom rectangle is the hallway. The dark grey 55 sq ft is going to be unfinished storage. Thanks for looking and I appreciate any info you might have!!
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