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It may be more cost effective than fancy sprinklers to box it in, get it signed off for building regs and then get the door/boxing taken out. (Dependant on your attitude to risk/rule-breaking - you'll have to have hard-wired smoke alarms in the new kitchen anyway).
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People who have the automist tend to be people who want their family to be able to exit the building if there's a fire and hope this system will guarantee it. People who build the wall and knock it down tend to think they are never going to have a fire.
Statistically fortunately both groups are almost correct in their deductions.
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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)