Is residential door security chain accessible?

[mark handler]

Is that a CA code section?I do not find that number in the IBC.

Yes, CA chapter for Residential Accessibility

 

[Yikes]

Yikes....I do believe the language said the door "one motion" requirement was for doors on an accessible route.....Is it?

steveray, *accessible route* is the critical question. And to quote your namesake Stevie Ray, the code leaves me feeling "stranded, caught in the crossfire".

If this were new construction, then it would be what CBC 1132A calls a "covered multifamily dwelling" and therefore must be adaptable or accessible. However, I would speculate that the original construction is old enough that it is exempt from chapter 11A. I have asked the building inspector to check his original permits.

 

[MASSDRIVER]

Instead of a chain, how about a roller latch? Those are the ones where a ball-shape rides in the U-channel. You just flip it open. One motion.

Brent.

 

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Instead of a chain, how about a roller latch? Those are the ones where a ball-shape rides in the U-channel. You just flip it open. One motion.Brent.

Are you referring to a "swing bar door guard", like this? http://www.walmart.com/ip/Prime-Line-U9897-Door-Guard-Swing-Bar/21987785

If so, then opening that guard is motion #1.

After that, turning the door handle/lever is motion #2.

Or am I over-thinking this?

 

[steveray]

It's adaptable.....unscrew it if you don't like it....