Interior row house bedroom with skylights but no window

[Anonymous]

OP - we are in a DC rowhouse with this setup. Our daughter's bedroom is like this. My DS is the room in the back in what was once the old sleeping porch area), daughter in the middle, ours is the bedroom in the front.

We put in a transom window to allow some light and a sliding door that does not lock between my DD's and DS's bedroom which I leave open at night after they fall asleep so that there's access into the bedroom (the original brick wall between the two rooms was removed in a renovation so it's just drywall - that may not be the case in yours).

It works for now, but it won't long term as we have to walk through DD's bedroom to get to DS's bedroom and when they're older, separate space without intrusion will be needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg - i hate reading this site!! Yes my child is in a bedroom exactly like this. What in the world?! The house has always been listed as three bedrooms.

That's not a legal bedroom and if there was a fire, you need a door and window so a firefighter can bust the window and get you or your child out. They cannot go through a skylight.

What if the kid is in the bathroom when the fire starts?

Most rowhouses have a dogleg with the window for the middle bedroom on the dogleg. The dogleg frequently has stairs to the basement as well, which makes it pretty much impossible to get a ladder up to that window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg - i hate reading this site!! Yes my child is in a bedroom exactly like this. What in the world?! The house has always been listed as three bedrooms.

That's not a legal bedroom and if there was a fire, you need a door and window so a firefighter can bust the window and get you or your child out. They cannot go through a skylight.

What if the kid is in the bathroom when the fire starts?

Most rowhouses have a dogleg with the window for the middle bedroom on the dogleg. The dogleg frequently has stairs to the basement as well, which makes it pretty much impossible to get a ladder up to that window.

I think additional means of egress are required in bedrooms because people would be asleep in there if a fire started during the night.