internal fire doors/replacing internal fire doors

[littlecookie]

hi im thinking about changing the 2 down stairs 6 panel fire doors if its possible. id like replace them with silmilar paneled doors but with some kind of glass in the top part but they would also need to be fire doors as they where fitted due to my loft conversion ,i need to have my living room seperated from the stairs due to fire regs,is is there any doors available which would be ok,..thanks

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Do you mean glass windows in the top of the doors or windows in the partitions above the door heads?

 

[littlecookie]

glass in the top part of the doors

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I'm not aware of any fire doors on the market with glazing in the top of the doors, infact I do not recall any doors being available with glazing in the top. wouldn't they look a bit odd anyway?

Fire doors cannot be modified in any way without rendering them non-compliant (legal), therefore if you were thinking of getting a fire door and sticking a window in it would not comply.

 

[JohnD]

IIRC you can get fire doors with glass panels, but they have to be glazed in a special way and are much more expensive

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

IIRC you can get fire doors with glass panels, but they have to be glazed in a special way and are much more expensive

You can but not with the glass at the top though.

 

[^woody^]

Fire doors can have glass in them as long as the glass is fire resistant - such as georgian wired or specialist pyro glass

 

[digdilem]

Pretty sure the corridor ones you get in offices/schools/hospitals are rated and they very often have sight strips so you don't slam them open in somebody's face.

A two second google bought up a 30 minute rated door that's got a lot of glass in it and is quite a bit less commercial than I was thinking of;
http://www.leaderdoors.co.uk/intern...medium=ppc&utm_term=3696&utm_campaign=froogle

 

[pejoli]

Pretty sure the corridor ones you get in offices/schools/hospitals are rated and they very often have sight strips so you don't slam them open in somebody's face.

A two second google bought up a 30 minute rated door that's got a lot of glass in it and is quite a bit less commercial than I was thinking of;
http://www.leaderdoors.co.uk/intern...pc&utm_term=3696&utm_campaign=froogle[/QUOTE]

When we had our doors replaced a few months ago for our loft build, we bought one of these to replace the glazed door between the kitchen and hall.

http://www.doordeals.co.uk/eMerchantPro/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=1662&IDCategory=202

very cheap compared to other similar doors I found on the web, but we were very pleased - the door came in under a week, seems to be good quality and looks great (IMO).