Integral Garage Fire Door Regulations

Check out page 30 of approved document part b fire safety.

Integral garage fire door regulations.

A remodeler doing a flip house changes out all the doors in the home to update the interior and replaces the old door to the garage with a hollow core interior door. These are the only doors inside a dwelling that require self closing doors garage floors should also be sloping outwards or at least 100mm lower at these doors to prevent fuel spillage leaking in to the home. It should be fitted with a door closing device it should be hung on three hinges. It is not likely that any raised panel 1 3 8 door will ever have such a rating or qualify for proper garage house fire separation.

Internal doors to integral garages should be fd30 fire doors and include smoke seals and self closing devices. If i use a 44mm solid core wooden fire door other than maybe protecting the hinges and. We check the bug on the glass and it is usually safety glass but have yet to find one with glass that is fire rated. The reason the inspector wants to see the tag is because then they know it is a 20 minute fire rated door and meets one of the choices for type of door for garage house fire separation.

I priced up hormann steel integral garage doors the h3d and wat40. The door opens inwards into the house. The door shown below is an example. A 2 storey house which has a door leading from an integral garage into the house new build or renovated domestic properties which have 3 or more storeys including loft conversions must have fire doors to every habitable room off the stairwell.

1 where a required door is operated by power such as a door with photo electric actuated mechanism that opens the door upon the approach of a person or a door with power assisted manual operation the design shall be such that in event of power failure the door may be opened manually to permit exit travel or closed to safeguard means of egress. For a typical two storey domestic home the building regulations require that where the property has an integral garage the door between the main property and the garage normally kitchen or utility should be a fd30 fire door 30 minute fire resistant and include smoke seals and self closing device it is also recommended that the garage floor be at least 100mm lower than that of the property to prevent any fuel spillage entering the main property. They came in at 900 and 2300 which was a shocker. The door from an integral garage into the house should be a fd30 self closing door ie 30 minutes separation.

You also need to check the floor of the garage which is detailed on the same page. Building regulations stipulate that fire doors are required in the following key areas for domestic properties.