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Bathroom door swing overlap

Benjamin Shultz
3 years ago

Hey all,

So we’re in the new construction process with Ashton Woods on a model they had not built before (there was nothing to see in person and walkthrough first) and have run into a slight issue on the jack-and-Jill bathroom. We elected to have a door put on the entry way to the water closet/shower area but the way it was originally planned by the builder did not appear to leave sufficient space for a person to walk in and close the door behind them. So we brought this up to the project manager and he agree and gave the options of removing the door, using a smaller door and reducing the size of the door way, or flipping the door swing to open outwards 180°. We decided the last option would be most appropriate, however, quickly came to realize that if this water closet door was flipped to open 180° it would overlap with the entrance door swing from both sides of the bathroom. We again reached out to the project manager and requested the entrances to the bathroom to be changed to open outwards toward the exterior walls of the home (instead of into the bathroom). He is now coming back saying that they can make the adjustment for the water closet door but that we would responsible for the purchasing and installation of the new doors if we wanted then to open outwards.

Not sure how to proceed. But my personal view is that they Shizuoka absorb the constant since it is a direct result of their engineering oversight when designing this bathroom. Bellow is a image of the bathroom layout with the door swing as they currently are.

Does anyone have some suggestions for how to go about this? Is it a code violation to have all of these bathroom doors overlapping?

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