Publisher's Synopsis
Answers to common code questions at your fingertips. This handy jobsite tool will become as indispensable to you as your cell phone, tape measure, and level. This pocket-friendly companion to the International Residential Code discusses the impact of 2021 code changes to fire resistance provisions, emergency escape and rescue openings, safety glazing adjacent to bathtubs and showers, and many more for single-family dwellings, duplexes, and townhomes. 2021 Home Builders' Jobsite Codes also updates footing tables, requirements for smoke alarms, and wood deck provisions. It includes more than 100 detailed illustrations and useful tables and discussion, among other areas, of foundations, fire safety, energy efficiency, mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems, safe and healthy living environments. 2021 Home Builders' Jobsite Codes is meant to be of practical use on the jobsite, not as a substitute for the IRC.
