In our (leasehold) building there’s an electrical service cupboard on the ground floor. Above that there’s a service duct which goes all the way to the top of the building - for electrical stuff, phone lines, etc.
The cupboard and the duct are approx 90cm x 90cm in cross section.
Above the service cupboard there’s no ceiling - if you look up you can see the “naked” joists running across. Our fire safety assessor doesn’t like it - if a fire broke out in the electrical service cupboard at the bottom, very easy for it to spread upwards through the building. He wants us to put a ceiling in, to be made from fire board.
We could do it by attaching the fire board to the joists I suppose, but they’re a very long way up so it would be an incredibly awkward job. I’m wondering if instead we could construct a ceiling a bit lower down. If we did that, could we get away with screwing the board into bits of timber fixed horizontally to the side wall (quite easy), or would we need to construct some kind of frame with wooden studs and fix the board to that (more difficult)?
(how the ceiling looks doesn’t matter at all - hardly anyone will ever see it)
Thank you.
The cupboard and the duct are approx 90cm x 90cm in cross section.
Above the service cupboard there’s no ceiling - if you look up you can see the “naked” joists running across. Our fire safety assessor doesn’t like it - if a fire broke out in the electrical service cupboard at the bottom, very easy for it to spread upwards through the building. He wants us to put a ceiling in, to be made from fire board.
We could do it by attaching the fire board to the joists I suppose, but they’re a very long way up so it would be an incredibly awkward job. I’m wondering if instead we could construct a ceiling a bit lower down. If we did that, could we get away with screwing the board into bits of timber fixed horizontally to the side wall (quite easy), or would we need to construct some kind of frame with wooden studs and fix the board to that (more difficult)?
(how the ceiling looks doesn’t matter at all - hardly anyone will ever see it)
Thank you.