Fire Door Bldg regs

[AndyBill]

Hi wonder if anyone can help?

2 storey, 3 bed 1930 semi converted to 4 bed with loft conversion in 1989,
there is a fire door on the loft conversion but original 3 beds are not fire doors,
I applied for a 'retrospective' completion cert for loft conversion as this was never signed off in 1989.
Bldg Control inspector said conversion was fine but i now need to put door closers on the original 3 bedroom doors!

Any advice would be very welcome.

cheers

 

[gcol]

Not too clued up on this but I think they mean those chain affairs that kinda disappear into the door frame. Mind your fingers!

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Come on gcol, pay attention! //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=158736

 

[PJ1]

Just as a by-the-by, do you know that 35mm thick fire doors (FD20) are now available for this situation. So as long as the casings are in decent nick you could just fit them and forego the nasty closers. You and yours would be safer that way.

It used to be a real pain in the bum to fit fire doors in loft conversions, as it required the frames to be changed as well, to accommodate the 44mm thick doors....

 

[kirkgas]

when we converted from 2 storey to 3 storey we had to fit 1/2hr fire doors with self closers on all but the bathrom doors

 

[chappers]

regs have now changed and closers are no longer needed