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Not being able to exit your home in an emergency without a key is a serious safety problem. In most places it is not permitted.
International Residential Code R311.4.4 βAll egress doors shall be readily openable from the side from which egress is to be made without the use of a key or special knowledge or effortβ. Most local codes are derived from this.
they asked for advice on a door to protect a child, not a lesson on municipal code. go out there and fix it yourself.
Right, better to let them burn alive in a fire instead of pointing that out, right?
This comment feels needlessly hostile.
That's because it is. These "why don't YOU do something about it" comments always are, I just don't get why people are so aggressive straight out of the starting block.
While they did, they cannot simply ignore municipal code with their solution.
Au contrere. one can simply ignore municipal code. happens often and everywhere, not to mention evrerwhere it doesn't exist. unless it's enforced, and that's the key. also, i'm not against building to code. just realistic.
Yes, and that's how people get killed in completely preventable ways.
Municipal code is usually to prevent people from dying. It's simply dumb to ignore it in a case like this.