Learn about the intricate details of restroom design, ensuring code compliance by accurately checking crucial dimensions. Dive into the practical aspects of creating a functional and compliant space, including door placement, clearance requirements, and the importance of precise measurements.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes the importance of code compliance in restroom design, highlighting the need for careful measurement and placement of elements like doors.
- It is crucial to have clearances of 18 inches on the pull side and 12 inches on the push side of a door. The article also discusses the implications of attempting to maximize space by reducing these clearances.
- In addition to door placement, designers must ensure that the restroom can accommodate a five-foot circle, a commonly used benchmark for accessibility. The article provides practical instructions on how to check this requirement using the Annotate and Detail Line feature.
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Now we're going to get into some of the nitty gritty details of designing a restroom a little bit here. But we want to make sure that we're creating a space that is code compliant. And to do that, we're going to check some of our dimensions.
When we have a door like this one here, we need to make sure that we have 18 inches clear on the pull side and 12 inches on the push side. And so I'm just going to run some dimensions here to make sure that we're good. And if you remember, when I first placed this, I just kind of threw it in there.
I didn't really pay much attention to how it was located. But I want to look at the door in relation to the placement on the adjacent wall. And then also want to make sure that I have this clearance here.
And you can see we're right on it with having one foot one. And so if I look at my overall clear dimension here, we're at four foot four. And so I do have one inch to spare.
If we really wanted to go right on it here, we could change this to one foot, which with the frame would probably get us there. But that is a risky move there because we would have zero room for tolerance when it was constructed. But you may argue, well, it does give us an extra inch inside the bathroom.
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And that may not matter because the next thing we need to do is make sure that we can get a five foot circle within here. And so to check something like that, I would just simply go to Annotate and Detail Line. And we can draw a circle that has a two foot six radius.
So I can just type in 2.5. And then what I want to do is make sure that this radius is set clear. And you can see as I move it around, you can see that we have that clear dimension. And this is a good thing to have for regulatory reviews.
So I can leave this on here and I can change it just a hidden line. So you know that it's just a symbol and actually rather use the hidden option there. So it's not green.
And then I can take the same thing and it's pretty obvious it won't be an issue for the women's restroom. But you can see we can throw that in there just to show that we're meeting that requirement. And so I'll go ahead and delete these dimensions because we know that we're good.
And the one that I didn't mention here, which I got lucky when I placed it, but that was at three inches, which is pretty much the absolute minimum we can go with getting this door framed properly on a perpendicular wall there. We wouldn't want to go much lower than that. Four is really the standard, but three would be the absolute minimum there.
And so you can see now we have our restroom. We've got all of our clearances meeting. We'd have to have a 30 × 48 rectangle here.
And we can draw those as well. But really getting that circle in gives us an idea that, you know, somebody could come in here, see that this stall is occupied, turn around and then leave, leave the restroom without too much trouble. So what we'll do is we'll pick up where we left off here in the next video.
And we're going to add the room tags back in. And we're going to go ahead and start getting this ready to put on a sheet so that we could present this to our client.
