Windows & Doors in Valley Village
Valley Village window and door openings, corner windows included, with the lost post replaced by steel or engineered beams and permitted by LADBS.
Light from two walls at once is what a corner window gives a Valley Village room every day, and it asks a lot of the framing that once stood in that corner. A corner post ties two walls together and often anchors their bracing. Take it out for glass and the roof edge above needs another way down, the walls need another way to resist a quake, and the sashes still have to open and lock without binding.
Carrying a corner without a post
There are a few honest answers. A steel post slim enough to sit inside the mullion can keep a load path while reading as part of the frame. Cantilevered beams from each wall can meet at the corner and carry the roof edge, sized by the engineer for both strength and bounce. A steel moment frame can take over the bracing that the corner wall panels provided. Posts that remain need a footing able to take a concentrated load. Each choice changes the window order, so it is settled before glass is measured.
Living with the corner
Once built, the corner has to behave like any other window. Casements or sliders on each side should open with one hand and lock with one motion, and a fixed pane at the corner itself keeps the joint simple. Glass near a floor is tempered, and the sill gets a pan that drains outward at both faces. For a Valley Village corner, plan check and inspection belong to LADBS, and its inspector sees the steel or engineered wood before the wall is closed.
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Usually, with the lower wall removed and a deeper header spanning the new width on trimmers or posts. A threshold is set level with the floor and flashed so it drains outward. LADBS reviews the change, and the engineer addresses any bracing the wider cut takes away.
Its size comes from the width of the opening and the weight resting on the wall, whether that is roof alone, a floor or a beam end. For a corner window, two headers may meet at a post or cantilever toward each other, and the engineer sizes both together.
Yes. Valley Village permits come from LADBS. Plan check covers resized openings and any corner or shear wall changes, and the inspector checks framing, flashing and the energy and safety labels on each unit. A same-size swap still needs a simpler filing. The paperwork is ours to prepare.
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