Help with code - doors

[MTL_Inspet_Man]

I'm inspecting a new construction and the customer called in a panic today.

It appears that the framer messed up and the roughing for the bathroom door is to small so the solution is to install a narrower one.

what is the minimum door with allowed by code for a bathroom?

thx

[Jim Katen]

The IRC has no minimum size for a door to a bathroom. There isn't even a requirement that there be a door to a bathroom. Heck, bathrooms aren't even considered habitable spaces.

I'm presently installing a 24" wide door in a little half bath that I'm building in my basement. I'm doing it because I found a bitchin' cool wood panel door for $5 at a yard sale, and I had to put it somewhere. That's a *small* door. But heck, it'll be used 10 times a year.

Which bathroom is it? Hall, master, or half?

How small is the door that they're proposing to put in?

How tough would it be to re-frame the wall?

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Brad Manor]

Ontario Building Code says a Bathroom/Water Closet Room/Shower Room door shall be at least 610mm (24") wide.

Not sure what it has to be in Montreal.

-B

[MTL_Inspet_Man]

It is a cottage and it is the master bath on the upper floor

I too assumed that 24" would be fine since there are no appliances i.e. washer / dryer

It looks like it will end up as a 28" in lieu of a 30"

thx