Scoping for a coin operated laundromat

[Sifu]

Searched for but can't find any scoping requirement for a commercial laundromat (5% but not less than 1 type language). Without scoping, do I revert to all machines?

 

[ADAguy]

Reach ranges and manuvering clearances plus POt and parking (if provided)

 

[Yikes]

2010 ADA Standards 214 (which California has copied as CBC 214):

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Note that your local jurisdiction may be more stringent.

Also, if federal funds touched the project or site - - for example, if the laundromat is an onsite amenity for a federally funded affordable housing complex - - then going beyond ADA, HUD says Section 504/UFAS will require 100% of washers and dryers to be accessible.

For ADA 611, note that "operable parts" also means the coin slots, etc. on the machines.

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Lastly, anything else the public would touch as part of their use of the facility - such as vending machines, machines that exchange paper money for coins, etc. - would be scoped under ADA, as well as the paths-of travel, etc.

 

[Sifu]

Thanks Yikes. That is the type of scoping language I was looking for, but I can't cite the ADA, only ANSI. I will request they provide accessible machines, coin changers, vending etc., per the technical standards. The only scoping I can find for W/D in the IBC is in appx. E (which surprises me), which is not adopted. When/if they come back and ask how many I will explain the scoping from the appx. and how it would behoove them to follow it as it is identical to the ADA scoping.

 

[ADAguy]

It is for the AOR to indicate to his client that ADA and local amendments often exceed ICC (it only being a model code)

 

[Sifu]

It is for the AOR to indicate to his client that ADA and local amendments often exceed ICC (it only being a model code)

Agree, but from what I can tell that doesn't always happen, and in this case would almost guarantee it won't happen.