Inner door is made of heat resistant materials and are characterized by high fire safety requirements.
Boiler room exit door requirements.
Ceilings of exit routes must be at least 7 feet 6 inches high.
Contains contents that are likely to burn with extreme.
Plans must show boiler make model heat input.
1910 36 e 2 the door that connects any room to an exit route must swing out in the direction of exit travel if the room is designed to be occupied by more than 50 people or if the room is a high hazard area i e.
Refrigerator machinery rooms over 1 000 sf require two doors.
The clear height of the boiler operating site and access road should meet the needs of the lifting equipment.
Boiler room door swing emergency switch.
There are vertical boilers see figure 1 7 of several designs.
Panic hardware and fire exit hardware consist of bars that must extend across not less than one half the width of the door leaf not less than 30 inches or more than 44 inches above the floor.
Fresh air location and size.
An applied force not to exceed 15 pounds will cause the door latch to release.
There are specific requirements for electronically controlled egress doors.
Boiler incenerator and furnace rooms over 500 sf or over 400 000 btu in fuel fired equipment require two exits.
These boilers are frequently used when floor area is quite limited and where sufficient height in the boiler room is available.
Open basements must have fire rated material over boiler a minimum of 8 around.
The boiler room door leading to the outside should open to the outside.
There is a variety of other boiler design concepts available.
Inside houses and in open space.
A side hinged door must be used to connect any room to an exit route.
2 3 boiler room height requirements.
An exit access must be at least 28 inches wide at all points.
Must have perforated dob plans and boiler manuals on site at t time of inspection.
The registered design professional is responsible for indicating which special inspections are required at application intake.
Where there is only one exit access leading to an exit or exit discharge the width of the exit and exit discharge must be at least equal to the width of the exit access.
According to the approved regulations boiler room equipped in the extension can be equipped with two doors.
Boiler work may require per building code chapter 17 certain special and progress inspections and other construction requirements to be performed during and at the end of construction as per the table below.
Finally there are a number of cases that always require two or more exits.
For example cast iron sectional boilers usually limited to smaller output capacities.