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Good plan... So it's a loft conversion, which only has around 80cm in the middle of the room with roughly 2m ceiling height (shown by grey dashed lines in the below). Originally my plan was to have the stairs as follows, with a landing at the top , and a perpendicular door opening into the...

Thank you both, I guess I can envisage those situations. Probably looking at it too much from the point of view of a relatively agile younger person who isn't carrying a tray!

You're still not explaining what is unsafe about opening a door inwards from a staircase. And yes, I have searched for an answer and not found one, that's exactly why I'm asking... maybe if it's beneath your incredible intellect to give me an answer you could just link to all the other ones...

You might want to check the edits to freddiemercurystwin's post. Suddenly became a little (though not much, tbf) more informative after my "hissy fit"... it started out as purely taking the **** because I asked a question, made no attempt at all to answer it. Even as it is I don't think "I can...

Love how you just get smug and sarcastic replies on here, without people actually demonstrating any understanding of anything or answering your question. Maybe the forum should be renamed "makeyourselffeelcleverbybeingadick.com" or something.:rolleyes:

Ah, gotcha... the references to doors are all essentially red herrings in this situation, it's purely that 1.20 that counts. I think I was distracted by looking for the references to 400mm etc! Do you have an idea of the rationale for this? Just kind of seems to me that once the door is open...

Yes, you're right actually, hadn't spotted that. But now I'm even more confused, as there doesn't seem to be anything at all about doors at the top of stairs?

I still can't see exactly which part applies... there's this part, but it only talks about doors swinging across landings:

I still can't see exactly which part applies... there's this part, but it only talks about doors swinging across landings:

Read a few discussions similar to this, but replies are utterly inconsistent, so I thought I'd lay out my specific situation and see if people can give a definitive answer... I'm looking to put a door, which would swing inwards, into an attic bedroom at the top of the stairs going up to the...

Makes sense in terms of why the rules for spiral stairs are as they are... but still not clear on when they apply. I've had a joiner tell me that three winder boxes of width 750mm (as per the above diagram) would not meet regs, as the centre going would only be around 196mm. But if I say it's...

Yes potentially true, but I'm thinking purely in terms of the regs...

For clarity, what I'm ultimately after is something like the below, which was designed using 3 winder boxes. Going by Doc K each side of the square needs to be at least around 1700mm to achieve the required going of 223mm. But BS 5395-2 (Category A – Small Private Stair) only specifies a...

:ROFLMAO: Needs must... Satan probably has a larger house than I do! I'm hopeful of being able to achieve what I need with reasonably decent-sized winder turns, rather than a traditional narrow & steep spiral staircase. But that's where the original question becomes pertinent... it seems...

Asked a few people about this, including building control, who haven't got back to me with a useful answer yet... The criteria for rise and going set out in Building Regs Doc K effectively give a minimum width of around 860mm for a 3 tread kite-winder (anything less and the centre line going...

Cheers John. To be honest I'm going to try not to do either of those things. The latter seems marginally more likely, and given that not connecting the bath to earth is clearly the easier option, I think I'll go with that!

Right, er, well glad to have prompted such enthusiastic debate! To be honest the last couple of pages have gone way over my head, but as far as I can see they seem to be related to a hypothetical bath, rather thant eh one I will be soaking msyelf in, so that's OK. Going back to mine, and...

I thought that might be the answer, but the (annoying) thing is that I'm not doing any electrical work, just putting a new bath in! We don't have an RCD in place, but it seems excessive to have get a sparky in just because I'm replacing my bath?!

Apologies if this is similar to other threads, but I couldn't see anything explicitly for this situation... I'm installing a steel bath, with polypipe plumbing / plastic waste - ie no metal joining to it. It is replacing an acrylic bath, and there is no earthing in place. It's also quite a...

Sorry, maybe didn't go into enough detail there... The end result is that the HW and/or CH are never satisfied, so something is going wrong somewhere. The degree to which this happens / periods for which the boiler flames vary, but any radiators past the first one or two in the loop very...