Internal Fire Doors

[Django x2]

Hi all,

Can anyone confirm my thoughts.

Mid terrace 3 storey town house built in 1998. Regs at the time suggest that any property over two floors would require self closing fire doors.

It appears that this has been relaxed now to just "fire doors", ie, they don't have to be self closing.

We are replacing all the doors inside the house already to the tune of £1k not including waxing and fitting (or hardware) but if we need firedoors, this will be much closer to £2k.

What are the specifics. The door we like comes in both flavours (non fire door and fire door) but the burn rating seems to be absent. Being Oak, I would think a normal door would suffice.

Obviously, fire doors are thicker so the door jambs and shuts that are there might be misaligned if we go for non fire doors.

Thoughts?

 

[Django x2]

I would have assumed that my home insurance would have something to say if they were found not to be fire doors....

 

[Django x2]

Well, thats the odd thing. We had a flat prior to this. They weren't self closing or fire doors and this was a 3 storey timber framed building. The only substantial door was the front door (to the flat).

All I know (from what I've read) is that up to or around 2004, buildings with 3 or more storeys must have self closing fire doors. This was then relaxed to just fire doors (ie, not self closing).