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Domestic family home, having loft conversion. In process of upgrading all bedroom doors to fire doors. I have 45mm fire doors, fire rated 4 inch hinges & hinge pads.
Have sent the BCO several emails & phone calls but still not heard back. looked through approved doc B but cannot find guidance on the following:
1. Is it okay to use standard pre-existing door frames that have a 12mm rebate stop, or is it mandatory to change the frames to fire rated?
2. Intumescent strips - fit to the door or within the frame? I will have to rout out as neither door nor frame is pre grooved.
3. Smoke seals - are these mandatory? If so, are the brush or plastic fin style preferable? I can only find black brush which doesn’t look great against new white paintwork, are there any suppliers that sell with a white fin or white brush?
I have Smoke alarms on landing, not in every room. It’s a traditional 3 bed semi with hallway & stairs from the front door whichever would be the escape route.
Could some please give me a nudge in the right direction?
https://assets.publishing.service.g...chment_data/file/485420/BR_PDF_AD_B1_2013.pdf
Have sent the BCO several emails & phone calls but still not heard back. looked through approved doc B but cannot find guidance on the following:
1. Is it okay to use standard pre-existing door frames that have a 12mm rebate stop, or is it mandatory to change the frames to fire rated?
2. Intumescent strips - fit to the door or within the frame? I will have to rout out as neither door nor frame is pre grooved.
3. Smoke seals - are these mandatory? If so, are the brush or plastic fin style preferable? I can only find black brush which doesn’t look great against new white paintwork, are there any suppliers that sell with a white fin or white brush?
I have Smoke alarms on landing, not in every room. It’s a traditional 3 bed semi with hallway & stairs from the front door whichever would be the escape route.
Could some please give me a nudge in the right direction?
https://assets.publishing.service.g...chment_data/file/485420/BR_PDF_AD_B1_2013.pdf