AnthonyB

Your fire risk assessor should have covered this in your FRA, are these in the external wall? It may not be a requirement at all, I'd need some more info and ideally a picture of their location.

Don't waste your money - if a lithium ion cell goes into runaway the toxic & corrosive gases vented off even before the fire starts will permanently damage your health seriously (or worse). Unlike extinguishers for normal fires, which are tested by operatives with standard industrial clothing, the lithium ion extinguishers have to be tested by people in full body protective clothing and self contained breathing apparatus even though the test areas are fully ventilated or even outdoors. If it's not the li-ion cell on fire but just the standard electrical equipment in the installation then any electrically safe domestic extinguisher will suffice, water mist and ABC Powder being common

No, because different types, makes & models of fitting have different light outputs and so usually come with spacing tables to allow you to work out far apart fittings need to be depending if it's a corridor or open areas, you need 1lux, 0.5lx or 15lux/10% of normal light and if you are wall or ceiling mounting (with different distances for different height ceilings)

You'd certainly think so!

If it is not a private dwelling then strictly speaking it requires an FRA which would need to be proportionate to the actual risk present. It sounds like the lighting ought to be on sensors rather than an arbitrary time meaning it's only on when someone is there which would solve your issue whilst actually saving money by having on continuously from 7pm even if no one is there. Obviously some of the light fitting might need to have emergency packs as well.

What Mike said. It's absolutely not the case that every conversion requires a fire alarm and evacuation and every purpose built is stay put with no alarm, the FRA should reflect the conditions on site and not arbitrarily determine requirements based on age alone. Sometimes lack of smoke control can have an impact, but your description implies the common stair is only G & 1 floor, which current guidance allows no provision in very small blocks. If your compartmentation is also fine, then stay put and no alarm is likely to be fine. The phrasing of the action sounds familiar - was the FRA by a company that's name includes Noah's biblical mode of transport?

A warning to leave the safety of your flat (a 60 minute fire resistant box) into a smoke filled stair - which has killed on several occasions. What the official guidance says: "In ‘general needs’ blocks designed to support a ‘stay put’ policy, it is unnecessary and undesirable for a fire alarm system to be provided" "Fire detection and alarm systems are not normally provided in the common parts of blocks of flats (with the exception of sheltered housing schemes). This has been the benchmark standard for many years (see Appendix 1) and continues to be the case for new blocks of flats under the current guidance in Approved DocumentB." "Domestic smoke alarms are not appropriate for the common parts of blocks of flats, nor is it appropriate to apply the recommendations of BS 5839-6 to a communal fire alarm system. Where domestic smoke alarms exist in the common parts of a block, they may, and often should, be removed"

I would be extremely worried about the competence of your current provider. The Extended Service/Discharge Test interval for all types other than CO2 has been 5 years for 41 years now! There are only two exceptions: - Primary sealed powder extinguishers where the extinguisher is a sealed charge with a removable piercer valve - Essentially refers to the old Nu Swift range no longer in service - 10 year discharge test internal - The P50 range (which you don't need a service company for) which is also 10 years between discharge test

In older UK fire doors, the purpose of a rebated frame (where the door stop is machined directly out of the solid timber frame rather than being a separate "planted" stop) was to create a deeper, interlocking, and more robust barrier against fire and smoke. Key Purposes Longer Flame Path: The stepped edge (rebate) forces flames and hot gases to travel through a tortuous, overlapping path rather than a straight line, slowing down fire penetration. Structural Integrity: Machining the frame from a single solid piece of dense timber provided better stability under extreme heat, reducing the likelihood of the door stop warping or burning away as quickly as a small, nailed-on wooden strip. Inherent Seal (Pre-intumescent era): Before modern chemical intumescent strips (which swell up in heat) became standard, older fire door designs relied on the physical depth of a heavy timber rebate—sometimes 25mm or more—to mechanically block smoke and fire around the perimeter edges. (Information from AI, but with reference links that were genuine sources so not AI hallucination)

Not if the escape route for other flats passes right by it with no alternative.

It's basically the Welsh version of the English Building Safety Act primarily regarding the design and build of new in scope buildings & the management of existing in scope buildings, it's more a Building Regulations style of document and does not alter the Fire Safety Order. What it will do in future (once the relevant sections are enacted) is bring in specific requirements relating to FRAs in HMO's.

I'd assume it's a manufacturer plug as it doesn't match either old roundel or newer tree type plugs in main colour.

The 'no door' or windows solution for an inner room is so the inner room occupier will quickly notice a fire developing in the access room - far less likely if the inner room is on another floor (until it's too late) so that would also make the 'no door' solution untenable to remove an unmitigated inner room. As Mike says you have AFD which is the more modern solution to the issue

How close is the path to the building & what width is it?

They will be treating the board and base as separate components & expect labels to each.