Hi
I am planning on converting half of my double garage into an office/workshop by putting up a dividing wall and then a ceiling and floor on one side to make it more habitable, leaving the other half as is, for the car.
When converting a garage, if it is attached to the house, you must have a fire door. If the garage is detached then there's no requirement (AFAIK). Well, my garage is attached to the house i.e. it shares a wall, but there is no direct access to it and hence no fire door.
To my question! When I split it in half, do I need (as far as regs go) to install a firedoor between the garage and the workshop?
Further to that, we are going to put up a conservatory which will have an opening to the garage/workshop (the workshop part) and an opening to the house (through the existing external doors).
Does anyone know if that will then require a firedoor from the garage/workshop to the conservatory? The conservatory installers don't think so.
Who are the best people to ask such things?
TIA
sminky
I am planning on converting half of my double garage into an office/workshop by putting up a dividing wall and then a ceiling and floor on one side to make it more habitable, leaving the other half as is, for the car.
When converting a garage, if it is attached to the house, you must have a fire door. If the garage is detached then there's no requirement (AFAIK). Well, my garage is attached to the house i.e. it shares a wall, but there is no direct access to it and hence no fire door.
To my question! When I split it in half, do I need (as far as regs go) to install a firedoor between the garage and the workshop?
Further to that, we are going to put up a conservatory which will have an opening to the garage/workshop (the workshop part) and an opening to the house (through the existing external doors).
Does anyone know if that will then require a firedoor from the garage/workshop to the conservatory? The conservatory installers don't think so.
Who are the best people to ask such things?
TIA
sminky