[Fire Door Seals in wrong position?]

Good morning,

Would you be kind enough to give me some advice regarding the above withing a domestic property please?

We had a fire door & intumescent fire strip fitted in our property when we had an extension done recently.

The fire door was between our garage & our utility room as part of the new extension.

The strip has been fitted between the framework before the fire door on the utility side of the door (leading into our garage)

Several people withing the building trade & a Fireman have advised its incorrect & in wrong place?

Sounds like it should either be withing the actual door itself or withing the framework on the other side of the door (garage side)?

We're not 100% sure but obviously a bit concerned due to health & safety & also there being an isue with getting through the building inspector etc??

Would you be kind enough to confirm if this is in fact wrong, and whether I should seek an independent assessor of some description ie from the council etc to check & verify?

The seals should either be on the 44mm wide side of the door or in/on the frame facing the side of the door. The seal should not be facing the large leaf of the door!

[Fire Exit]

I own a guest house which has a guest bar, I have been told that I should have a panic bar fitted to the external door. Is this the case?

 

I have looked into exit hardware but there seems to be loads of different types, exit bars, panic bars, panic bolts, latches. can someone help me make sense of all this?

 

Hi

 

If you have general public in the building such as visitors you are required to install panic bars (also called push bars or touch bars).

Take your pick on http://www.safelincs.co.uk/panic-bars-with-latches-or-bolts/

 

Cheers

[Installation of extinguishers]

We are extending part of the house and are letting bedrooms for holiday guests. We were told that we have to install a couple of extinguisher. No problem so far. But one of the companies we rung insisted that we had to get them installed by them and that it would be illegal to install ourselves. What is the difference of me hanging an extinguisher on the wall compared to a 'specialist'???

The new BSI standard for extinguisher installation does make it necessary to pay somebody knowledgeable for the art of installing and commissioning. However, who says that you need to follow BSI's guidance. After all BSI standards are mainly voluntary guides. If you are a private individual you do not need to install in accordance to BSI at all. If you are a business or rent out etc your insurance might tell you how these extinguishers are to be installed installed.

If you decide to do the install yourself, just weigh the extinguisher, record the weight, keep the invoice, check that nothing is bent or dented and that the pressure gauge is in the green. And then just ring a servicing company after one year to service (if you are a business or have to do fire risk assessments). If you are a business and you install yourself, just make sure you know how many extinguishers are needed and where they are to be installed.

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