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windows. Sleeping rooms on the 2°d and 15` stories all appear to have complying egress <br />windows or doors except: <br />a. The area between sleeping room 1-B and Bathroom 1-c is being used as an additional, <br />6`h sleeping room on the main floor. This room has no emergency escape and should <br />not be used as a sleeping room. <br />3. Smol<e detectors were missing in several of the sleeping rooms. Smol<e detectors are required <br />in each sleeping room as well as within the room giving access to the sleeping room. <br />Third Floor (attic) <br />1. There are no records that the attic has traditionally been a habitable space or has received <br />permits and approvals to be habitable space. Even if the space had been traditionally used, the <br />majority of the attic appears to have been recently heavily-modifiied without required permits: <br />a. Snohomish County Assessor records indicate that the structure is currently a two-story <br />structure with no mention of a finished attic or 3"'story. <br />b. A 1973 construction permit applied for by the owner, Lawrence Nalbacl< indicates a 2- <br />story, 6-unit apartment building. <br />c. In 1973 a memo from the housing inspector to the mayor indicated that the owner was <br />going to provide a second exit from the 2"d floor for fire safety. If there were 3 floors of <br />habitable space, the stairway would have also been required to the 3rd story. <br />d. A 1985 housing inspection noted an upper level and a lower level that were being used <br />by a tenant. This comment appears to be describing the 15Y and 2"d story since they are <br />the main habitable levels ofthe house. The'upper' level would therefore be the top <br />level of the dwelling and the attic would be above the upper level. <br />e. In - 1989 a permit to rebuild the porches was secured. The structure was listed as a 2- <br />story building. <br />f. The majority of the finish material on the attic walls and ceilings is gypsum wall board <br />(GWB) (modern construction). <br />g. The attic has a kitchen that is comprised of modern floor and wall covering, appliances, <br />cabinets, countertops, plumbing and electrical services and fixtures and is not original to <br />the structure. <br />h. There are craft-faced fiberglass insulation batts (modern construction) visible within <br />attic rafter spaces. <br />i. The secondary wall material in the attic sleeping rooms is ship-lap boards, not lath and <br />plaster as would be expected for this structure as a finish material at the time of the <br />home's construction. <br />j, A wall has been (re)moved to widen the stairs to the attic —the stairs at the top run <br />have been widened with Oriented Strand Board treads (modern construction). <br />k. The structure supporting the roof within the attic has been modified. The tenants (W.B. <br />Housing Assoc.) informed us the woric was done under permit by the owner right before <br />they moved in (no permits for this worl< is on file}. The work has been covered with <br />�5 <br />