conservatory outside doors?

phoebe03cat

We are adding a conservatory. We have two existing solid brick walls (one from the exension and one from next doors conservatory for which we have paid half). All we need is a roof and the floor! Its going to end up a cross between an extension of the lounge and a garden room at the end of the day. I want to put folding back wooden doors where the house ends at the moment and then secure lockable upvc doors on the outside. ( like everyone elses conservatory I guess). My husband is telling me I can't do this as the internal doors leading to the house also need to be secure lockable external doors. Anyone had any experience of this and can shed any light please? Thanks

CrazyChemist_2

phoebe03cat wrote:

We are adding a conservatory. We have two existing solid brick walls (one from the exension and one from next doors conservatory for which we have paid half). All we need is a roof and the floor! Its going to end up a cross between an extension of the lounge and a garden room at the end of the day. I want to put folding back wooden doors where the house ends at the moment and then secure lockable upvc doors on the outside. ( like everyone elses conservatory I guess). My husband is telling me I can't do this as the internal doors leading to the house also need to be secure lockable external doors. Anyone had any experience of this and can shed any light please? Thanks

From the conservatory to house is lockable in our house but that's how it was when we moved here there's also a similar lockable door on the outside of the conservatory but it's just a security thing to have the lockable door on the house as it probably isn't too hard to enter the conservatory, unless you have a team of ninja monkeys keeping guard

McAzrael

Under current building regs conservatories are exempt from the requirements of Part L1 (Which deals with thermal efficiency). The definition of a conservatory includes that it is accesed through external, lockable, doors and that it has independent heating. (There are other criteria.) It is a lot cheaper and easier to put decent doors between your house and your conservatory than it is to build a fully glazed extension in compliance with L1.