open plan living area - fire regs
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:23 pm
We are having 2 walls knocked thru downstairs to make kitchen and 2 receptions open plan - no doors.
The staircase is walled on either side adjoining the neighbour's house on one side, and then a fire wall that boxes it in from the rest of downstairs - apart from the entrance to the bottom of the stairs that's open.
The house is your typical Victorian terrace - 1 room wide (about 4m) and 3 rooms deep. It's 3 storeys high. The loft room has a door at the bottom of an enclosed staircase, but it ain't a fire door!
Can you see any problems fire regs wise? Do we need a fire door to the loft room?
Advice needed!
Ta.
The staircase is walled on either side adjoining the neighbour's house on one side, and then a fire wall that boxes it in from the rest of downstairs - apart from the entrance to the bottom of the stairs that's open.
The house is your typical Victorian terrace - 1 room wide (about 4m) and 3 rooms deep. It's 3 storeys high. The loft room has a door at the bottom of an enclosed staircase, but it ain't a fire door!
Can you see any problems fire regs wise? Do we need a fire door to the loft room?
Advice needed!
Ta.