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I believe that to obtain building regs sign off, I would need to be able to isolate the kitchen with a fire door.
Are you sure? I thought the issue was escape routes, do your stairs come down into the dining room? (Although I might be a few years out of date there.)
Maybe worth a bit of a chat with a third party building regs company.
aggi-
Thanks all, this is super useful. It's a two storey property with stairs, and while the stairs don't go directly into the kitchen/diner, they do run parallel to it so I've assumed a door would be needed:
However I do have some familiarity with the equivalent regs for flats and I'm not sure they'd apply in this situation - because the escape route is not on the same storey as the fire risk, the route itself would still be clear unless the fire was really spilling out into the hallway.
Can anyone recommend a third party building regs company who could clarify for me?
ReekBlefs
Alright all. I'm getting a builder to knock down a wall between the kitchen and the dining room to create a kitchen diner, in a freehold house. I've got a structural engineer to do the calcuations and design, and I have a builder ready to go.
I believe that to obtain building regs sign off, I would need to be able to isolate the kitchen with a fire door. If that's correct, I won't be able to obtain building regs sign off, because the design as is won't allow it - it's an open space.
But if in 10 years time I wanted to obtain building regs sign off by re-designing and installing a new fire door etc - would it possible for me to do this using historic pics of the work as evidence it was done right? Or should I just give up on the idea of ever getting building regs work approval for it?