Windows & Doors in Burbank
Cedarline Design Build sets Burbank windows and doors with lapped flashing, drained sills and labeled glass, sized for an ADU, a JADU or the main house.
Gravity does most of the waterproofing around a Burbank window, provided every layer in the wall is lapped so it hands water down to the one below it. That holds for a new opening in an ADU and for a replacement in the main house. The City of Burbank reviews any opening that is new or enlarged, and the glass we pick has to clear the state energy limits for the address.
Laps that shed water
Building paper and flashing tape go on from the bottom up. A sill pan, tipped toward the outside with small dams at each end, sits under the frame first. Side strips cover its upturned ends, and the top strip tucks under the paper above the head, so a drop that gets past the stucco meets a surface that carries it out. The nailing fin is bedded in sealant along the sides and top and left open along the bottom, which gives the pan a way to drain. Sealant is the backup layer here, since sun slowly breaks it down.
Doors and the ground outside
A door sits low in the wall, so its threshold meets water splashing up from the slab as well as runoff from above. The landing outside a new ADU entry is set with a gentle fall away from the sill, and the threshold rests on a pan that drains to the face of the wall. A small roof or awning over the entry keeps a downpour off the step. A hose run across each finished opening, done while the framing inside is still exposed, shows whether the laps hold before stucco patching and trim close everything up.
Windows & Doors in Burbank: common questions
Each opening is drawn on a site plan beside the neighbor's windows and yard. Where two sightlines would cross, the sill goes up above eye level, the glass turns obscure or the pane is fixed, and light still reaches the room. Escape rules apply in a bedroom, so one window there stays low and wide enough to climb through, on the side with the least exposure.
Yes. State law gives a JADU a separate outside entry, and opening one in a house wall involves a header, new framing and inspection. The City of Burbank reviews and inspects that work. We draw the door and the step outside it on the conversion set, so they are permitted along with the rest of the unit.
Title 24, the state energy standard, sets a top U-factor and a top solar heat gain value for new glass, and those numbers follow the address's climate zone. A label listing both comes on every unit. We match the labels to the window schedule on the plans and leave them on the glass for the inspector.
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