CESS SSS SS SSS SEE EELELE CEC EL ELE) UPDATED TO THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL AND UNIFORM CODES Cope & CHECK’ BUILDING A Field Guide to the Building Codes Mat ease eer ENGL AUK) in es Ll LL Se) gee W Accurate and Wf Helps avoid WEasy and fast up to date costly mistakes to use MICHAEL CASEY, REDWOOD KARDON, AND DOUGLAS HANSEN ILLUSTRATED BY PADDY MORRISSEY Tet at aN oak ore Role CUE e rns bee en 2 Footings + Foundations + Drainage 4 Basement Walls » Forms + Reinforcement 6 Ceo CO em eee eon Coy Ey} Peer tein oe a toed 10 eG ee ee RE ee meu iP) See Cant eR oct eee Cee ry Prt Or Come Wate act ge Meee cast) 7 Attics «Ventilation - Roof Coverings Ty eee tee aed 20 eae Rect Lt eau ee a Lt ou od phi Tae L ER oa pr Fireplaces & Chimneys oi |_Peo! Barriers « Smoke Detectors» Final Inspection 28Ta Ome reo ole Oey Cope CHEck’ Building SECOND PRINTING BY MICHAEL CASEY, DOUGLAS HANSEN, AND REDWOOD KARDON Imustations and Layout: Pedy Mornssey {© 2003 by The Taunton Press nc isan: o7e4.661586053 ISBN: 1563585955 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Spocial thanks to Denis alzr, Gneral Contractor: Mark Cramer, Certs Inspector; Robert Fennema, PE. and Larry Johnson, Sr. Prost Manager. oe Check Bung is @ condensed uide to commonly cited code wolations in the construction of one- and twofamiy dwalings. Building codes and codeautonng organaations throughout the county ae undergoing major transformations. The purpose ofthe Books to emphasize the ite saety principles 1a the heart ofthese bulking codes. To be sure of compliance in your area, we ‘ecarmend consuitng your bling department eat and often dug te course ‘of a consvucon projec. Code Check nite to conventional construction, and "many proeets itis necessary to use engineering provisions of other codes that 1 beyond the Scope ofthis book or ofthe IRC. Table» Codes & Standards et Ac13t8 Code Requroments fr Structural Coneate UMC 2000 Unform Mechanical Code [UPC 2000 Uniform Plumbing Code UBC 1997 Uniform Busing Code €0C 2000 Intemational Energy Conservation Code IRC 2003 Internationa Residential Cade {BC 2000 Intemational Bulerg ose NEC 2002 National Elo! Coge ‘SSTD 1099 Hurticane Resistant Residential Construction B91 Handing. Instaling & Bracing Trusses Model Codes & Organizations ‘cl = American ConreteInstive BOCA = Bulg Officials & Code Adminstrator intematona \APMO = Intaatonal Assocation of Pumng and Mechanical Offs C80. = Intemational Conterence of Butdng Ocal IC = Intemational Code Coun IEPA. = National Fire Protection Association ‘SB0CI = Southern Building Gode Congress International TA = Truss Pte Institute organizations (BOCA, ICBO, and SBCC!) merged into the ICC. They publish @ sate of codes covering buting, plumbing, mechanical energy, fe. fuel gas. and the Internationa Residential Code (IRC), which is the basic reference ‘oeument for Cade Check Building. The NFPA publishes hundreds of codes end {Eades to recommended practices, inching the electrical cod, Iie safely code, land te prevention code. They recently produced their fst buling code, NFPA 5000, Some states have adopted one oF more of these codes, while others are stil using the codes that were in effect before the transformation of these Organizations. As ofthis wring, rida is using an amended version of SECT Standacd Builing Code, We hone incised ferences for he 1997 Uniform ‘Bulcing Code (UBC) bocauso that code is tho basis of Calfoia's code unt t least 2005, andthe UBC Is therefore the second most widely scoped code ats ‘ime. Other codes are mentioned in varios eoetions of Code Check Buin, B= in January 2003, the toe former) regional code-euthonng Key {stage bractetd intrmation eters to tho 2003 1 {Squsle bracketed information refers to te 1997 UBC) [403.4 (.) Te ot svat racket nano rors to the IRC code nue {eo {806 1) The grt squggebrackat number rfers to the UBC coe rumber Bample: 16in block OK for one story to of (606.2.1] 21096.) ‘The rl above is fund in section 606.2. of te 2003 IRC ans section 2109.6.1 of te 1997 UBC. ‘Codes ending in numbers separated by commas oer to multiple cade sections: ‘example: (1507 5,6) rlors to [1507-5 & (507.6) ‘thor abbreviation in coo reterences: “teers to Code Check Bulag tates Frets to Code Check Bulg rigues focal = not cade thougy commony local amendment A supesort E 000.30 after a code tation refers to the 2002 NEC ' superscript M DX) afer @ dade caton refers to the 2000 UNC ‘A supersorptP 00037 aftr code ctaton refers tothe 2000 UFC ‘A supers EC O00.) ater a ode cation eer to te 2000 ECC ‘A superset 8 (OX) ater Code tation retest te 2000 18C ‘XC means te folowing ine contains an exception o We ced uke Abbreviations Append oft IRC American Socety for Testing and Materia ‘uminam snptance buling building ofc concrete masonny units dlametor distance emergency engineered auipment except ‘aception to rule wil flowin next ine extonor bwtension foundation feet ‘ehaniaas _Buolaminated timper ‘gpsum renzontah out, ours inches laminated veneer lmber manutoctue's requirement mechanical ruber perpen property bre rossure treated pounds per square foot pounds per square inch require requires requires Seismic Design Catogory seeceatons Seismic Zone Tx® = manufactured Hoists (TH isa wademank of Tus Jost, 8 ‘Woyornaouser business) hone pe vert = vertical wy = wah w/o = withoutVUVVVoeveVvuVvuVvuUVUVUUVULUUUUUUUUUUUYUY Attes p47 eet test ome ony Commons Ure tsi