Eric90

Hi client has an underground car park not totally enclosed, concrete ceiling no open penetrations, fire doors to stairs to office accommodation above. There is a sprinkler system fitted and only a manual call point installed. I would have expected to see some smoke detection installed as if there was a fire with no one was around to operate the call point then it lacks any early warning until the sprinkler activates?

Visited a three storey 7 bed air b n b this morning, the only detection in place were smokes to the landings and heat in the kitchen all interlinked. He had also assessed it using the making your small paying guest accommodation guidance, he obviously didn't read "single premises of ground floor, or ground and first floor, providing sleeping accommodation for a maximum of 10 persons, with no more than four bedrooms on the first floor" The owner was a little dismayed that I pointed out that he needed linked detection in all of the rooms. The unit will only be let out to groups, max 20 people with one lead person. Owing to the size of the property over three floors would mains wired detection interlinked fire alarm system require a dedicated panel?

A converted 5 storey office block into residential flats, AOV to the top of the stairs and also mechanical extraction system in place to the flat approaches on all levels. The cross corridor doors to the flat approaches all have excessive gaps to the threshold, am I right in understanding that these are acceptable as they allow any smoke to be cleared out through the mechanical extraction system. Thanks

I have a single storey office built 2021, 180m2 divided into two, sole occupation just office use, reception, wc and meeting rooms to the front, brick / block wall with fire door through to the rear open plan office with fire exit. The roof void is open no compartmentation in place, have tried to fathom out whether this requires compartmenting looking at Doc B I don't think it does, any advice would be greatly received. 😎

Many thanks Anthony, will contact a FRAEW assessor.

Hi I have a small block of flats, two storey and on the first floor are a number of "bay windows" with spandrel panels attached, I cannot find out any product information on them regarding any fire safety performance. Would this be risk assessed as low risk due to the placement and minimal coverage? Thanks in advance.

Thanks Stuart.

Hi, visited a small industrial unit office accommodation and mezzanine to the front of the building, warehouse / workshop to the rest of the unit L3 detection. There is a caravan sited in the workshop and when questioned a member of staff (as there was a mat and shoes by the door and obviously not just stored for the winter!) they replied "it is used for engineers to sleep in if they get home late after call-outs but not often". Just need to know where / what I can look to quote regarding the issues that this poses as other vehicles are stored in there along with fuel etc! 😮

Hi, visited a site, doctors surgery yesterday and it was identified on the last risk assessment that the fire doors has single chain perco and that they should be replaced with overhead door closers. They have installed the overhead door closer this but just unscrewed the retaining bracket on the old perco, leaving the door frame requiring remedial works. Would it be acceptable to reinstall the perco or would the two closing devices conflict in any way?

Hi I have a two storey office block with an electrical cupboard on the ground floor housing the mains intake and distribution board, the cupboard is not fire rated and the cables go up through the suspended ceiling and into the void above with some penetrating the concrete first floor, obviously these will require fire stopping. Can the "ceiling" to the cupboard be constructed with fire rated plasterboard and mastic the sides etc along with upgrading the existing cupboard construction?

Thanks Anthony.

Two fire doors within a two storey building were fitted a number of years ago, a recent fra found these doors had the top edge taken off exposing the core. Am I right in saying that these need replacing as works to add a hardwood strip are not permissable which is what the clients deems is an acceptable solution!

Independent living accommodation , residents bedroom doors have yale locks fitted so therefore can be locked from the inside, when queried the care provider their response was "well they haven't locked themselves in yet" (the client group are physically/mentally impaired) surely if they are required to be locked when the resident is out or on holiday then that's fine but they should be able to be opened in the event of an emergency without the fear of it being locked by a confused resident? Thanks

Thanks Mike, 👍

Thanks Anthony, wow think that would be too costly! Will recommend replacing door 🙂