Slight change of layout to top floor of three storey house

[RainbowLaura]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if anyone could give me a little bit of advice please...

This is the top floor of my three storey house, built in 2001:

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• RainbowLaura
• 23 Nov 2014
• 1

I am hoping to block up the doorway between the dressing room and the bedroom and add a new door into the dressing room from the landing (along the small wall - it would be pretty much the whole width of the existing wall). This would be to make it into a bedroom and a study. Could this be a problem with fire regs etc? I know the new door would need to be a fire door but I am not sure if there is anything else that could pose a problem. The other thing is that the "door" between the dressing room and bedroom is in fact a large open archway, if that makes any difference.

Even better would be to actually bring the dressing room a bit further out into the bedroom (next to the fitted wardrobes if you see what I mean), if that would be possible...

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Many thanks for reading,

Laura

 

[tony1851]

No problem with that as long as long as the new door is at least FD20.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Assuming it has a openable window of course tony.

 

[tony1851]

Yes, I assumed OP was concerned about fire regs only. The room would, of course, need a window (though not an escape window).

 

[RainbowLaura]

That's promising, thank you. It does have a velux window currently
I'm a little worried about structure but it only has the roof space above it, so hoping that changing the (plasterboard) wall to a door shouldn't really be a problem.