Allowable Area of Openings On Diagonal Wall

[Adrienne]

We have a wall that is running diagonal to the property line, and so various points of the wall have different allowable areas. How do you go about calculating the total allowable area of openings for the wall? Would we simply add together the allowable area for each segment? It is worth noting that our openings are actually placed within the portion of the wall with the maximum allowable area, but we would like to use the total wall length in our calculations if possible.

 

[cda]

Welcome

 

[cda]

Not my area

Not sure if this helps any

http://www.specsandcodes.com/articles/code_corner/The Code Corner No. 26 - Exterior Walls.pdf

 

[Builder Bob]

You basically have to do the walls in segments to have the maximum allowable openings otherwise, you may have the interpretation that the worse case scenario applies to the entire wall.