Hi guys,

 

Looking for some advice on fire regulations on an apartment building. The building is 3 stories with 3 apartments on each floor. One main stairwell up the center and a small corridor to each apartment.

Does anyone have the fire regulations for apartment buildings like this? My main concerns are the fact that each apartment does not have a smoke detector, the main stairwell doesn't have working smoke detectors, each apartment does not have a fire door to enter the apartment and residents are storing large amounts of stuff in the corridors, such as wooden bed frames, bicycles, kites etc. Although this is not blocking the walkway as it's at a dead end, this is possible fuel and a fire risk in my concern.

 

Any advice would be appreciated.

I have to ask, what country are you in?

It's very wrong if in the UK! You should probably be in touch with your local fire service enforcement team as well as your local council housing enforcement team, it has illegal flat conversion written all over that description - you aren't in a London Borough by any chance? 

The apartment building is in Aberdeen, Scotland. It used to be a 14th century meal mill which was converted around 55 years ago into apartment, not sure the exact date but it was a long while ago considering there is asbestos on the door into the plant room under the stairs. I do think it would have been done by code originally as we have had council in to check for window changes and such as the building needs to look a certain way but not sure it has ever been looked over by the fire department or had a fire risk assessment completed.

It's not as clear cut in Scotland as their equivalent of the Fire Safety Order excludes common areas of flats (other than maintaining fire service facilities like dry risers) and a fire risk assessment is not a legal requirement. Only Housing & Tenement legislation for which  rather vague requirements apply if not a licensed HMO.