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Door at top of loft stairs - building regulations?
zoothornrollo_2
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So my builder reckons we cannot have a door opening off the top stair - even if it opens into the room. With the result that we are having to construct a landing with an extra stud wall that takes a chunk out of the room.
But I cannot find this code, only that a door cannot open over the stair? So
But I cannot find this code, only that a door cannot open over the stair? So
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Page 19 of this PDF?
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8393/2077370.pdf
Landings for stairs
1.16 At the top and bottom of every flight, provide landings as shown in Diagram 6."Einstein never said most of the things attributed to him" - Mark Twain0 -
That diagram seems to only apply when the doors are opening onto the landing (there must be 400mm between where it opens and the stairs).
Doesn't seem to suggest anything is required if the door isn't opening onto the landing?0 -
That diagram seems to only apply when the doors are opening onto the landing (there must be 400mm between where it opens and the stairs).
Doesn't seem to suggest anything is required if the door isn't opening onto the landing?
It requires a landing at the top of the stairs. If the stairs finish at a door, there is no landing.0 -
That diagram seems to only apply when the doors are opening onto the landing (there must be 400mm between where it opens and the stairs).
Doesn't seem to suggest anything is required if the door isn't opening onto the landing?
you are reading a bit too favorably.
EVERY flight of stairs needs a landing, per 1.16, and that landing must conform to diagram 6
Diagram 6 tells you that the landing must be ATLEAST 1 step width deep.
diagram 7 tells you that if a door opens onto the landing (from diagram 6), that the door must open no closer than 400mm from the top of the steps.
you cannot get away from having a landing.0 -
zoothornrollo wrote: »So my builder reckons we cannot have a door opening off the top stair - even if it opens into the room. With the result that we are having to construct a landing with an extra stud wall that takes a chunk out of the room.
But I cannot find this code, only that a door cannot open over the stair? So
A door that opens directly on to a flight of stairs sounds very risky to me regardless of regulations to prevent it.You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friend's nose.0 -
If it's that bad, put the door at the bottom of the stairs instead!Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl wrote: »If it's that bad, put the door at the bottom of the stairs instead!
but note that the landing requirement is the same for the top and bottom, so the door has to be 1 step width away from the bottom step and open outwards (or inwards no closer than 400mm).0 -
Page 19 of this PDF?
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/8393/2077370.pdf
Landings for stairs
1.16 At the top and bottom of every flight, provide landings as shown in Diagram 6.
Ah, thank you, that would be it.0 -
Rain_Shadow wrote: »A door that opens directly on to a flight of stairs sounds very risky to me regardless of regulations to prevent it.
Yet somehow houses up and down the land managed with them for centuries...2 -
Doozergirl wrote: »If it's that bad, put the door at the bottom of the stairs instead!
Oh now I'd never thought of that, how silly of me.0
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