Skylight is the only window egress

[sputnam]

There is no requirement that a bedroom has to have a window. It has to have a secondary means of egress. Could be a door. Could be a trap door. Just has to allow someone to escape the room if there is a fire blocking the primary egress... and it has to be reasonably accessible from the floor.

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

Easy easy. Where did I say I was trying to make it into a bedroom? I was just asking for feedback on if anyone thought this was sufficient egress. I personally do not, but wanted to get others opinions. Stop assuming.

"Bedroom has a skylight and no other windows. The skylight is on an angle along a pitched roof so a step stool would be enough to access it. Do you think that this is sufficient egress?"

I figured you had a reason for asking if it was sufficient egress. Typically it is in relation to it being a bedroom when this question is asked. So is it sufficient egress for what? Sufficient for who?

 

[NJ Valuator]

"Bedroom has a skylight and no other windows."

Reluctant as I am to speak for JG....
I can see where she may have gotten the idea that you considered this room a bedroom....

I stand corrected. A room that the owner is using as a bedroom.

 

[sputnam]

"Bedroom has a skylight and no other windows. The skylight is on an angle along a pitched roof so a step stool would be enough to access it. Do you think that this is sufficient egress?"

I figured you had a reason for asking if it was sufficient egress. Typically it is in relation to it being a bedroom when this question is asked. So is it sufficient egress for what? Sufficient for who?

It might be enough. Might not. For a taller, stronger person... maybe so. For a smaller, frail 75 year old woman.... maybe not.

Right though... the fact that an occupant has a bed in the dining room, doesn't turn the dining room into a bedroom.

 

[J Grant]

I think when someone has to ask the question, ( is it sufficient egress?) then the answer is no. Because with a normal window or sliding glass door, we don't have to ask the question. Even if someone managed to get out of that skylight ( does a skylight open wide enough for a person to get out of ?) They would be on a steeply sloping roof. Just no, keep it simple-