Door opening in or out ?.

[jamesnewhere]

Thank you all or the previous advice,i am getting my flat ready for sale and doing repairs/remedial work to bring it up to standards.

Question. I have a kitchen diner arrangement the door and frame has been removed to open up the access.
I have to get the door,frame reinstalled to comply with standards and future visits by surveyors

Can the door open inwards or outwards,outwards would be my first choice due to layout of kitchen.?. Thank you.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I have to get the door,frame reinstalled to comply with standards and future visits by surveyors

What standards?

Who says?

Which surveyors?

 

[denso13]

It doesn't matter which way it opens, your choice.

 

[jamesnewhere]

[quote="ban-all-sheds";
What standards? building regulations and previous approved building conversion plans.

Who says? as above including the fire brigade,home insurance company etc.

Which surveyors? property will be sold and i assume future owners will need a survey.

 

[mfarrow]

If it's a downstairs flat with a conservatory on the back then maybe, but I can't see removing a single door being a problem, unless it was a fire door for some obscure reason?

Has anyone told you what the regulations say, other than "though shalt put the door back there"?

 

[jamesnewhere]

Its a second floor 2 bedroom flat (top flat) property was converted to 2 flats 28 years ago and the council approved the conversion so i assume they have a copy of the original approved plan,which showed a door into the kitchen area.

I have already decided to reinstate the door and just wanting to know if it can open inwards or outwards.

Just looking for advice before i contact a tradesman to carry out the remedial work before i sell.

 

[jeds]

As above - you can open it either way. Whether you actually need the door or not depends on the situation. Under building regulations, alterations are not supposed to make fire escape worse than it previously was. So if removing the door increased the risk then you probably need to put it back. If not, then probably not. But either way it doesn't matter which way it opens.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So are we saying that there is not a legal flat or apartment in the land with an open-plan kitchen diner?

 

[jamesnewhere]

Thank you all for the useful advice,except ban-all-sheds.

 

[tony1851]

Thank you all for the useful advice,except ban-all-sheds.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Thank you all for the useful advice,except ban-all-sheds.

OK - fine.

Spend your entire life taking the word of officials and "surveyors" telling you that you "have" to do something, and regard any suggestion that you might like to find out if there is any justification for their demands as unhelpful.

Tony will back you up - he will assure you that nobody from any council Building Control department anywhere has ever got anything wrong.

 

[tony1851]

Spend your entire life taking the word of officials and "surveyors" telling you that you "have" to do something, and regard any suggestion that you might like to find out if there is any justification for their demands as unhelpful.

At school, we were taught not to answer a simple question with another question .
As I see it, OP asked a simple question, and your response was three questions, fired back, staccato-fashion. Maybe that's what got his back up !

 

[ban-all-sheds]

His question was positioning a door because "I have to get the door,frame reinstalled to comply with standards and future visits by surveyors".

I thought it would be useful to know what standards were being enforced by whom.

 

[IJWS15]

I am with BAS on this.

Why is it necessary?

 

[geraldthehamster]

I've wondered this for years - why do you want to ban all sheds?

Cheers
Richard