Matt123

Brilliant, thanks Anthony.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone on here owned a copy of BS5839-6:2019 and could please tell me the wording of footnote K and footnote L in Table 1. For example, in Table 1 the wording of footnote (A) is "Including premises with long-term lodgers, but not boarding houses, the latter of which are outside the scope of this part of BS 5839." I have attached an image of Table 1 from BS5839-6:2019 which shows the wording of footnotes A, B, C and D. However, I do not have the wording for the other footnotes and I am interested to see the wording of footnotes K and L (which as you can see in the attached image are related to Houses in multiple occupation (HMOs)). Thank you.

Hi, We have a licensed 7 bed HMO which occupies the ground floor, first floor and second floor of a large terraced house. In the basement is a separate two bed flat that we also own (also rented to tenants, but different tenants to the HMO above) that was converted in 2007. At the time the conversion work was inspected by the council and signed off by building regs. The basement flat is fully self contained with its own front and rear doors, it does not share any communal areas with the licensed HMO above other than the rear and front gardens. The basement flat is not included or mentioned on the HMO license for the 7-bed house above and the council did not mention any concerns regarding the basement flat when they inspected the 7-bed HMO as part of the license application. The fire alarm and detection system in the HMO is Grade A, category L1 but it is not connected to the fire alarm and detection system in the basement flat. The control panel for the HMO's grade A L1 alarm is in the HMO's entrance hallway, to which the basement tenants do not have access. The fire alarm and detection system in the basement flat is a standalone Grade D2, category L1. Two questions: Is it a requirement under current regulations that the HMO alarm system and the basement flat alarm system be interlinked / connected? If the answer to no.1 is "no", then does the grade D2, category L1 alarm in the basement need updating anyway? Would that be to a D1 L1 system or another? Also, there is emergency escape lighting in the HMO but not in the basement flat. Normally a 2-bed basement flat would not require emergency lighting, does this basement flat require emergency lighting as a result of it being located underneath the HMO? Thank you. Kind regards, Matt