do i need to keep my kitchen door?
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Yes, Put a door closer on it. As woody comments - a fire door; in fact fit a fire a fire door along with the door closer. That will keep down your redecorating costs - particularly if a single bloke rents it. (I know as a tenant I had seemed to only use a frying pan to cook. The clean up was prolonged.)
Is or was originally.
I do not think that it is a fire rated door. It has rising butt hinges rather than a door closer.
I would however be very surprised if you did not have to have a fire check door on a kitchen in a rented property (possibly with intumescent strips) and an automatic door closer.
I have a customer that purchased a 4 story town house on the Thames in Hammersmith. Before she purchased it had been previously turned in to a HMO (house of multi occupancy). She asked if I could remove the perko auto door closers. I spoke to the local council and they pretty much said that if they were a requirement at the point of construction, even if the regs have since changed, the fire brigade would have to do a site visit and make a ruling.
She asked me to and.. I took off the auto door closers...
You however are renting your place. AFAIK you need fire check doors throughout, plus door closers and intumescent strips to provide tenants protection from smoke. The exception, possibly, being the bathroom.
I would however be very surprised if you did not have to have a fire check door on a kitchen in a rented property (possibly with intumescent strips) and an automatic door closer.
I have a customer that purchased a 4 story town house on the Thames in Hammersmith. Before she purchased it had been previously turned in to a HMO (house of multi occupancy). She asked if I could remove the perko auto door closers. I spoke to the local council and they pretty much said that if they were a requirement at the point of construction, even if the regs have since changed, the fire brigade would have to do a site visit and make a ruling.
She asked me to and.. I took off the auto door closers...
You however are renting your place. AFAIK you need fire check doors throughout, plus door closers and intumescent strips to provide tenants protection from smoke. The exception, possibly, being the bathroom.
@opps Eh? with regards to a flat you don't need FR doors just because it's a rental.
woody is saying if the property was built with a fire door on the kitchen originally then it should be maintained. That's it.
The door that is currently fitted is clearly not a fire door. If that is the original door then it's safe to assume that a fire door is not required.
woody is saying if the property was built with a fire door on the kitchen originally then it should be maintained. That's it.
The door that is currently fitted is clearly not a fire door. If that is the original door then it's safe to assume that a fire door is not required.
What it means is that just because you post a picture of what is there now does not mean that was what was there originally or intended to be there.
Back in the day, rising butt hinges were the self closing devices fitted to fire doors, and common in all flats.
Thanks for the correction. I recently had to fit intumescent strips to existing fire doors in a property but I guess that is because it is a HMO (house of multi-occupancy).