So a 762mm wide door is not building regs compliant have I got that right?

[MikeSharp01]

I was just fitting  the first of the internal doors, based on a trenched Howdens door frame, and I thought I had better check building regs as it is at the end of a corridor - head on though, found that the clear width is only about 720mm when 750mm is the BR requirement - seems daft that you can by a door kit from the H and it is not compliant anywhere I figure I must be misreading the BR doc?

 

  

 

[ProDave]

All our internal doors are 826mm and even that only gives about 780mm clear opening width.  Cupboard doors can be narrower and of course a lot of what H sell is for retro fit into older houses and nobody is ever going to check or care.

 

Time to discuss with H and change them for a bit wider?

[Russell griffiths]

You can buy lots of things, doesn’t mean they meet building regs. 
that’s a tight door in a modern house nowadays 

838mm on every opening here. Except one cupboard. 

[Oz07]

I thought the only doors which needed that access requirement was a route from the front door to the gf w/c? Maybe the kitchen too? Plenty of mass built homes have 30" on ground floor. 

[Dave Jones]

you need a 900mm structural opening for regs these days.