Peoria exempts a like-for-like window replacement with a condition most cities do not state: the assembly cannot be fire-rated. That qualifier bites on attached housing and on walls near a property line, where the wall may be rated and the exemption then does not reach it. The second Peoria trap is egress, because a retrofit frame inside an existing opening always loses some clear dimension.
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Peoria's amended section 105.2 item 18 exempts, "unless part of a rated assembly, minor repair or replacement in kind of non-structural components such as glass or glazing materials, sash, doors and hardware, patching walls or ceilings and replacing pieces of siding, soffits or fascia." A separate exception pulls locking and security hardware on egress doors back into permit territory.
That opening qualifier matters on attached housing and on walls near a property line, where the assembly may be rated and the exemption then doesn't reach it.
Peoria's residential appendix allows minor reductions in the clear opening of a replacement window where different materials make that unavoidable, "whether or not they are permitted by this code", and then carves out emergency escape and rescue openings. A retrofit frame inside an existing opening always loses some clear dimension. In a bedroom, that's the loss that counts.
Peoria runs the 2018 IBC and 2018 IRC, adopted by Ordinance 2017-31, effective for plans submitted on or after 1 July 2019. Its residential code reserves the permit section and routes back to the city's administrative provisions.
Two Peoria conditions decide this, and neither is about the size of the window.
Usually not, with one condition many cities leave out. Peoria's amended section 105.2 item 18 exempts minor repair or replacement in kind of non-structural components including glass, glazing materials, sash, doors and hardware, unless the work is part of a rated assembly.
A wall or floor built to resist fire for a set period. Peoria's exemption does not reach work that is part of one, which is most likely to come up on attached housing and on walls near a property line. Ask the building department if you are not sure which applies.
The city's residential appendix allows minor reductions in the clear opening of a replacement window where different materials make that unavoidable, and then carves out emergency escape and rescue openings. A retrofit frame always loses some clear dimension, and in a bedroom that is the loss that counts.
Separately. A specific exception pulls locking and security hardware on egress doors back into permit territory.
The 2018 IBC and 2018 IRC, adopted by Ordinance 2017-31, effective for plans submitted on or after 1 July 2019. The residential code reserves the permit section and routes back to the city's administrative provisions.