mortimer
third party inspector
- Location
- New England
- Occupation
- retired
If someone put an open walkway with a roof, to keep dry, from a garage 10' to a house, would anyone consider this attached?
If someone put an open walkway with a roof, to keep dry, from a garage 10' to a house, would anyone consider this attached?
We call that a breezeway. Are you asking if that makes the garage "attached" to the house? I would say yes.
-Hal
Only if the breezeway is actually physically attached to the house and the garage at both ends.
Some breezeways are freestanding and the posts on each end fall just short.
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From code perspective it goes deeper than just "attached".
If "attached" effectively creates a single building/structure our of what once was two separate buildings/structures, then you run into issues with multiple feeders/services supplying a single building/structure. There still can be allowances in code that allow separate supplies, with conditions, often ends up treating it like two buildings/structures, but which structure does the attaching component belong to may not always be so clear.