Fire Exits

Hi There, Can a pair of fire escape doors be used as a goods entrance? Also to be used as a entrance by staff using a key ? Whilst being the only fire escape route.

Hi I work for a charity and we have a fire exit/loading area to the rear of one of our shops which opens onto a neighbouring landlords property. This landlord agreed access for loading and fire escape purposes when we took on the tenancy and to my knowledge this was not written into the tenancy agreement. Our landlord states that access has always been allowed to tenants of our building and there has never been a problem regarding access. After a disagreement with the neighbouring landlord, he (rather childishly) says he is going to deny us use of the doors and all other access. Can he legally deny us use of a legitimate fire escape? Please help as this is causing distr…

Please can you let me know if putting door handles fittings so that the door remains closed as apposed to being able to push it open contravene the fire saftey regulation on communal landing doors in a 21 floor block of flats.

the scaffolders have blocked our only escape route upstairs we cannot open any of the windows only a few inches although the jobs finished our landlord and builder do not seem bothered, i have my young grandchildren to stay sometimes but feel anxious about this situation,what are my rights?

hello i'm waiting for are house to be adapted for wheel chair use but i'm in the down stairs dining room and there is only one window and one door straight on to kitchen. I would not be able to exit bed room in a fire as I can not jump out of a window etc and have a large family sleeping up stairs. W are a family of six. Is there any laws that housing association needs to adhere to? Many thanks

I lease a building which I sublet a couple of floors to. These floors use a side entrance to the building that is protected by a gate which is padlocked shut when building is empty and a door which is chubb and yale locked and can also be opened via an entry phone system. Last night, one of the floors got padlocked in by mistake and has prompted me to think about replacing the gates with a door that can be operated easily in an emergency or in case they get locked in by mistake again. Can you suggest some solutions with rough costs and also quote for doors that can be operated using an entry system and ones that can be just be left opened to allow access. Thanks.

I'm looking at a warehouse to open up a dog training centre (to hold training classes for the public), but it only has one entrance, and it also has an upstairs, which has no fire exit except down the main stairs to the main entrance... I'm wondering if this is a big problem, and whether I should not consider it as a result, should all buildings have 2 fire exits? It also has no fire doors or fire alarm system that I could see, and I'm guessing it will be quite expensive to add these in? Many thanks for reading,

Hi. Can a fire exit with a push bar on the inside and a normal handle on the outside be used as a normal access/egress door as long as it has an automatic closer fitted. Thanks, John

im a housing assocaition tenent in a ground floor flat and the housing are trying to get me to have a self closer hinge fitted to my front door im disabled and cannot open doors fitted with these devices as it causes me great pain do i have to have this fitted is it law ??

Hi Guys, I hope you can settle an ongoing workplace battle. We have a venue with a capacity of under 400 people. 2 main entrance/exit ways plus 5 fire exits. We use a freestanding folding screen to "block" one of the fire exit during performance times and for artiste loading purposes. The screen is 2 meters away from the exit although blocking its path. We have 4 other fire exits which is already more than adequate. Does my manager have a case against a blocked fire exit in the circumstances? Any help you can give would be a blessing.

Our customer has a hostel with 6 floors providing accommodation to 100+ people. There are secure corridors to each cluster of rooms on each floor as well as secure rehabilitation centre, female only areas etc. All secure doors are linked to the fire alarm so when the alarm is activated the mag locks are released. At each secure door there are green re-settable break glass points. Unfortunately these are abused and doors are left unlocked following activation of the buttons. Alarmed covers have been used but these are ignored / broken and with 6 floors to cover they are not heard by staff. The customer does not wish to go down the exit guard alarm route, rather, they wish …

Hi I was just wondering if u could help i have searched the internet high and low and am unable to find the answer... I have just rented a house off swansea council i have 5 young children and my front door opens on to the stairs which then locks it,is this against fire regulations? As if 7 people in my household arecoming down the stairs and one opens the door then the other 6 are blocked in..if you could help i would really appreciate it thank u very much Donna

We are converting a 400 year old house, that has been a barn for the last 100 years, back to a house again. It is of course listed. The existing openings do not provide an adequate means of escape, but a couple of dormers tucked away at the back, and inserted into what is currently a tin roof, could. We are trapped between a planning authority which will not allow the windows, and the Building Control officer, who does. The planning authority is now mounting a case against us, claiming that we could use the front windows if we put in child proof restrictors to prevent children from falling - but they appear not to care that this would also prevent children from escap…

we live in a block of four flats with one floor on the ground floor we have two people with polio in wheelchairs and one with learning disablities we have our main door and this is classed asour exit however we have a woman who insists on locking this door and the people downstairs even though it is just a keyless lock cannot open it as they struggle to turn the knob we have ben told we have to keep this door locked even though we have our own front doors as this would contain the fire what would happen if there was a fire and myelf and my partner were not here and she had locked this door how would they get out should measures be taken for these people with disabilities …

hi,can a company decommision a fire exit at any pointed time? and if so what procedure would they have to take?

Hi, I was wondering if you could help me or point me in the right direction. I'm working on a design for a new inflatable temporary structure and need to know how many and what size fire exits should be in place Phil

We have a security issue in that there is a door permanently unlocked because it is a fire exit from an enclosed garden. The situation is we are in a shared facility, two companies have a fire exit in the enclosed quadrant and then use the door through a glass walkway to get to the assembly point. Is there a way that we can secure this door but still have a way of opening it in an emergency?

Hi there If you have a building with 2 floors, the top floor has 2 fire exits situated at the opposite ends of the building. The bottom floor has an entrance in the middle and 2 staircases both at the opposite ends of the building that lead to the upstairs fire exits does that comply with regulations? Would it make a difference whether you had to go up the stairs rather than down to reach the fire escape? Many Thanks

Hi I stayed in a B&B last week end and was a little concerned that the fire door at the top of the stairs opened and then blocked my exit from my bedroom. Had there been a fire and other guests were exiting the building from my landing, I would not have been able to get out. Is this legal?

I am making an enquiry on behalf of my husband who works for a local voluntary organisation. The premises are located in the upstairs rooms of a terraced propery. The shop occupies the ground floor and the entrances are separate and not connected. Basically there is one entrance/exit for the offices - down the stairs and out onto the street. There is only one full time employee but a number of volunteers in and out at various times with a maximum of 12 on the premises on training nights. He is unable to raise his query with the HSE as they no longer have a phoneline available to answer questions of this nature. But he feels that, with only one exit (apart from …

I have a salon which has no back door only a front door does this comply with fire saftey guidelines?