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It’s a building regs issue - talk to an approved inspector. If you are not making an existing condition worse there may be some leniency. Otherwise look at automist systems.
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Thanks. Think that tallies with our googling so far. Can see the need for the regs of course, but seemed odd to have to build an extra wall in order to close it off. Fancy sprinklers probably the way forward. Or staggering the work so that the hallway/door comes last, with a separate contractor, then running out of money and having to postpone that bit...
(The running out of money bit might not be a lie in any event. Architect started out with 'sure, £xx is doable'. Now the tender is coming back and it's not even in the same ballpark. Joy)
duncs
Other half is having quotes for a kitchen extension. The stairs come straight into the open plan dining room/kitchen, and the plan is to extend into the garden 3 metres.
Builders are quoting to wall off the stairwell and put a fire door at the bottom.
Do we need to do that? It'll look a bit shit, and it seems weird to have to turn the stairs into a closed stairwell with a new door...
The pillar in the middle of the pic will be going too