Loft Regs

[Sunshine12]

Planning a loft conversion and will of course apply to building control but just trying to put a list together of what is required for costs.

Can someone please advise:

1. Do we have to use fire rated doors & staircases or can we fit a fire alarm system to the entire house instead? To be interlinked to mains, with heat detector in kitchen. Instead of having FR doors.

2. Does there have to be a door on the loft room?

It will be a standard enclosed stairwell (come through front door, stairs in hallway, up walk around landing and up the next flight of stairs). 12.5mm plasterboard & skim throughout house. Also be a very large Velux window.

Thanks in advance.

 

[tony1851]

To some extent, it depends on the inspector's view of risk.
Our local authority inspectors always ask for fire doors and interlinked alarms on hallway/stair enclosure, but the private inspectors we use are happy with just linked alarms in each room, + escape windows.

 

[chappers]

Indeed our local authority used to be happy with interlinked alarms in all habitable rooms and circulation areas, but have now ducked away from that as an option, they are however happy with upgrading the risk sides of existing doors with intumescent paint systems.
Yes a door either separating the loft or at the bottom of the stairway.