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There is no requirement for passive ventilation. My friend owns a condo in Vancouver. No windows open. Also Seattle: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments

by coryrc 2y ago

There is no requirement for passive ventilation. My friend owns a condo in Vancouver. No windows open. Also Seattle: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/s2s7bx/cant_open_apartment_windows_is_this_normallegal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/s2s7bx/cant_open_a... Also https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/omdxmp/downtown_unit_condo_with_no_openable_windows/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askTO/comments/omdxmp/downtown_unit...

kbenson 2y ago
Thanks, that's fairly clear and concise, at least for the locations you noted. It does appear to be that in New York it might be required though[1], so it's possibly still a problem depending on area. I'm not going to act like I'm an expert on reading building codes or that one in general though, so I could be misinterpreting it. SF had what clearly seemed like a mechanical ventilation exception in it when I just looked, but SF and Manhattan are the only things I looked up to compare to see if I could find whether it seemed fairly universally allowed or not. 1: https://up.codes/viewer/new_york_city/nyc-building-code-2022/chapter/12/interior-environment#1203.1 https://up.codes/viewer/new_york_city/nyc-building-code-2022... and https://up.codes/viewer/new_york_city/nyc-building-code-2022/chapter/12/interior-environment#1203.5.1.2.1 https://up.codes/viewer/new_york_city/nyc-building-code-2022...