Concrete Landing Front Door
I ve got a building with several exterior doors all opening inward.
Concrete landing front door. You ll need roughly a day to excavate build forms mix concrete pour and finish the pad s surface. Make sure you re able to check for level and square mix concrete and smooth out a concrete surface. A typical pad has a 4 inch layer of gravel underneath and about 4 inches of concrete on top. Deep in the direction of travel with an exception for juliet balconies accessed only by door and the landing can be sloped for drainage or construction tolerance up to 1 4 in.
Doors other than the required egress door shall be provided with landings or floors not more than 7 3 4 inches 196 mm below the top of the threshold. This landing must be at least the width of the door and 36 in. Before you begin determine the location for the pad and remove any sod. All great entryways begin with a welcoming walkway that ushers visitors to your front door in grand fashion.
A top landing is not required where a stairway of not more than two risers is located on the exterior side of the door provided that the door does not swing over the stairway. Code requires that i have a 36 x36 landing pad outside each exterior door. The slab and walk up is about 18 from the ground.