Hi,

 

I’m always on Rightmove looking what’s around and looking for inspiration. A fairly new house came up. Really nice but garden too small. Anyway, two bedrooms have only a velux window much higher than 1.1m. Is this allowed? I thought 1.1m rule is to allow possible exit in case of fire.

 

Thanks,

 

Nick

 

 

That is normally the case but you can deal with it by fitting FD30 doors etc and producing a protected corridor for a safe exit.

It would fail in Scotland, perhaps the rules are less strict in England?

There is no protected corridor I’m afraid. Are you saying that fire door alone would be enough to comply?

Depends how old the house is.

Less than 10 years as still within the warranty period

Edited December 8, 20214 yr by NickK

Is this a three storey property?

Without a protected staircase that would be dangerous in the event of a fire.  Upgrading the fire alarms with an interlinked mains detector in every room would be a way to mitigate, so that you would have a good early warning.  It would probably be better than an upper story escape window.