John G
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Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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On our house the garage runs parallel with the house so the kitchen opens into the garage means it needs an external fire door, at the moment we have a solid wood door (44mm thick)
My mum is going through the process of getting a new kitchen and wants to get nicer door as the current one is nothin less then awfull 
From looking around sites fire doors seem to have a few categorys 30minute doors, 60 minute doors, 30-35mm thick and 44mm thich like ours,
So what i need to know is what are the spec/requirments for an external door?
[Edited on 31-03-2009 by John G]
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Gregor
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I imagine you will once again need to go for a 44mm thick fire door. Reason being that the frame is built to suit this size.
If you wanted to go for a thinner door you would need to rip the door checks (the timber the door closes against)
To be honest regulations dont matter to you in particular unless you were just finishing an extension and the house was to be fireproofed to current regs (which imo are a lot of shite)
A lot of customers just get a pretty gash and cheap fire door fitted simply to pass their extension then once passed they get a door that they want.
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Leighton
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Registered: 21st Feb 01
Location: Liverpool
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You would need a 60min fire proof door, as long as it meets that requirement it dosent matter on the thickness.
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J da Silva
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60minute fire door as stated with an intumescant strip on the door casing, the idiots that make these regs also state you can't have any coating of any kind over these strips, but just do what the inspectors wants to see then rip it off and change it once it's all passed.
[Edited on 31-03-2009 by J da Silva]
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_Allan_
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Some light reading
http://www.firesafe.org.uk/html/fsequip/firedoor.htm
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pow
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Lol at all the people:
Make it nice for the inspector then rip it off and put what you want up there.
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Leighton
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Thats what happens all the time, House i did we moved the stair case after it got the ok from the planners 
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