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Yeah, what @Ramsaye said, it's the stairs that matter. When we had the loft done in our last place we had to had to isolate the stairs or get a misting system (as the stairs went straight into the living room.)
We went with the misting system ad there wasn't really anyway to isolate the stairs without losimg too much space. We only needed one head as the kitchen diner was seperate, cost was about 1500 all in (about a grand for the system and 500 for plumbing and electrics) . Neighbour a few doors down had the same done a bit later but he'd completey opened up the downstairs so needed 2 misting heads think you're looking at a extra 500 for each extra head.
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?