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Minor Fire
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Fire alarms in kitchens are usually heat, not smoke detectors so there needs to be a reasonable sized fire before they go off. If there was a smoke detector inside a kitchen it’d go off every time you cooked a piece of toast.
Internal doors only need to be FD20 rated, and don’t need to be self closing. FD20 doors may not have seals if the door itself has been proven to be fire resistant for 20 minutes in tests. Also check the door frame - many seals are in the frame not the door. If the latch is missing though, this should be replaced.0 -
where is the fire door?
where is the smoke detector (if, as mentioned above it is actually smoke, not heat)?
just because you have a kitchen does not mean there has to be a "fire door". In fact I don't know of anyone of my friends who has a fire door in their kitchen0 -
where is the fire door?
where is the smoke detector (if, as mentioned above it is actually smoke, not heat)?
just because you have a kitchen does not mean there has to be a "fire door". In fact I don't know of anyone of my friends who has a fire door in their kitchen
Flats are required to have internal fire rated doors on ‘occupied rooms’ (bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens) that lead on to corridors, to make them into compartments and contain fires.0 -
Fire rated FD20 doors can look like any other internal door, so not easy to tell apart when they are on hinge. They are usually a little heavier otherwise can look identical. No seals or selfclosing anymore either.0
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Cheeky_Monkey wrote: »Or they could think 'what a coincidence'
Regardless of what they think they are unlikely to act in the current climate.
Imagine the headlines!0 -
Flats are required to have internal fire rated doors on ‘occupied rooms’ (bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens) that lead on to corridors, to make them into compartments and contain fires.
Flats in blocks with three or more storeys.
(But I'm with 00ec25, millions of homes do not have fire doors and come to no harm. A fire door doesn't stop an irresponsible occupant causing a fire, it just protects others from said occupant.)0 -
Regardless of what they think they are unlikely to act in the current climate.
Imagine the headlines!
What current climate would that be? The one that says Councils should ignore a fire in their property that they think could have been started deliberately?
I'm not saying that it was but I'm struggling to understand how it happened in the first place. A hob is on the worktop whereas an oven is either below or at eye level. Either way, the control knobs for the hob and oven are not close to each other so I don't understand how it was possible to 'knock' the oven knob whilst turning off the hob.0 -
Cheeky_Monkey wrote: »
I'm not saying that it was but I'm struggling to understand how it happened in the first place. A hob is on the worktop whereas an oven is either below or at eye level. Either way, the control knobs for the hob and oven are not close to each other so I don't understand how it was possible to 'knock' the oven knob whilst turning off the hob.
On our standalone cooker the hob and oven knobs are immediately next to each other.Make £2025 in 2025
Prolific £617.02, Octopoints £5.20, TCB £398.58, Tesco Clubcard challenges £89.90, Misc Sales £321, Airtime £60, Shopmium £26.60, Everup £24.91 Zopa CB £30
Total (4/9/25) £1573.21/£2025 77%
Make £2024 in 2024
Prolific £907.37, Chase Int £59.97, Chase roundup int £3.55, Chase CB £122.88, Roadkill £1.30, Octopus ref £50, Octopoints £70.46, TCB £112.03, Shopmium £3, Iceland £4, Ipsos £20, Misc Sales £55.44Total £1410/£2024 70%Make £2023 in 2023 Total: £2606.33/£2023 128.8%0 -
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