Building Regulations - Internal Sliding Doors

[Beagle2]

Hello,

 

I am working on a small barn conversion. Change of use - agricultural to 1 bed annex 

 

Basically, there are two rooms.... bedroom and sitting room separated by a stud wall.

 

Space is a premium and I'm considering an internal sliding door between the two....

 

These 'barn rail' type seem ok. 

 

Is there anything to be cautious about from a regulation point of view?

 

I can find no direct restrictions of sliding doors in any approved doc

 

 

Thanks all

[kandgmitchell]

Sliding doors or hinged doors aren't mentioned specifically but you have to consider what the door has to do as well as just close off the opening. Is it required to have fire resistance for instance, or provide access for disabled persons. If it has additional functions then a door can be sliding or hinged as long as it still performs those functions. The door you illustrate would obviously not work as a fire door for instance.

 

Difficult to judge without more information but if it's between two rooms in a conversion, then odds on it's not doing any specific task and can be any sort of door that you like.

[Beagle2]

Thanks a lot for the reply, it's a simple two room, single story domestic building. Annex to an existing dwelling.

 

My basic research suggests that it does not require a fire door?

 

(not an HMO, 1 story, no connected garage)

 

 

What about passage of sound? I'm unclear how/if acoustic performance is applied to internal doors

[kandgmitchell]

Protection against sound within a dwelling-house etc.
E2. Dwelling-houses, flats and rooms for residential purposes shall be designed and constructed in such a way that: (a) internal walls between a bedroom or a room containing a water closet, and other rooms; and (b) internal floors
provide reasonable resistance to sound.

Requirement E2 does not apply to:
(a) an internal wall which contains a door;
(b) an internal wall which separates an en suite toilet from the associated bedroom;
(c) existing walls and floors in a building which is subject to a material change of use.

[nod]

As long as you are not over three floor No fire doors are needed 

Or any other doors