Toilet rooms: fixture and transfer clearances

Chapter 6: Plumbing Elements and Facilities Toilet Rooms Can elements with knee and toe space overlap the door maneuvering clearance? No. Elements, including those providing knee and toe space, 8” max cannot overlap or protrude into the maneuvering clearance required at doors and doorways. However, door maneuvering clearances can be offset up to 8” from the face of the door to accommodate wall thickness, casework, shelves, or other Grab bars and other elements elements adjacent to doorways, including grab bars. The door cannot overlap the door maneuvering clearance must be measured from the leading maneuvering clearance but can be located within the 8” max. edge of such elements so that the full clearance is free of any offset from the face of the door. obstruction. Must toilet rooms be identified by the International Symbol of Accessibility (ISA)? Labeling accessible toilet rooms with the ISA is required only where inaccessible toilet rooms are present. For example, half of single user toilet rooms of the same type in each cluster (5% in the case of portable units) are required to comply, and those that are accessible must be identified by the ISA unless all are accessible (§213.2, Ex. 4, §216.8). In alterations where existing toilet rooms do not comply, directional signs with the ISA must be provided to indicate the location of the nearest accessible toilet room which must be labeled by the ISA. Do the Standards require restroom pictograms? No. The ISA is the only pictogram the Standards require in labeling toilet rooms. Other codes or regulations may require pictograms to identify men’s and women’s rooms and unisex restrooms. The Standards require that pictograms labeling permanent rooms and spaces, including toilet rooms, be on a field at least 6” high and include the verbal equivalent in raised characters and braille below the pictogram. Informational pictograms, such as the ISA, are not subject to the requirements for field height or verbal text. Do the Standards require accessible toilet compartments, including the ambulatory accessible compartment, to be labeled by the ISA? No. The Standards do not require toilet compartments to be identified by the ISA. Water Closets Can an adjacent lavatory overlap the water closet clearance? No. Lavatories are not permitted to overlap the 60” wide minimum space at water closets, except in residential dwelling units if the water closet clearance is 66” deep min. (§604.3.2, Ex.). Lavatories (or other plumbing fixtures) can be adjacent to the water closet if recessed so as not to overlap the water closet clearance. (The rear grab bar can be 24” long in this instance if there is not sufficient wall space for a 36” grab bar.) 35