I have a building code question. We are renovating our two family home. There is currently no divider wall between the two units. The front of the house has a main exterior door. Then the vestibule. Then an interior door. Then the hallway, with a stair leading up to the upper unit, and the rest of the hallway on the floor being part of the lower unit. We wanted to put up a divider wall to divide the two units in the house. The divider wall would be located at the foot of the stairs that lead up to the 3rd floor. We would install two doors into the divider wall, one opening up immediately to a stair case going up to the third floor, one opening up to the 2nd floor hallway. Is it a problem to put a doorway (that would open outwards towards you) right at the bottom of a stair case? It would be about 12 inches away from the bottom stair. The other alternative is to put the door at the top of the landing, which is about 3 feet square, then the staircase right after. The door would have to open inwards to the unit. I can’t find anything on placement of doors in relation to stairways.<\/p>\n
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