Fire door on the kitchen of a flat?

[ajhmini]

I've got a flat in a converted victorian house. Every door in the flat appears to be a fire door (solid, very heavy) but no self closers/seals etc. We'd like to remove the door in to the kitchen as the space is tight and blocks the furniture/kitchen units, is that allowed?...

6 Flats are spread over four floors of the building, all the flats have their own front door in to a communal stairwell. Our flat is one bed on a single floor (first floor). Kitchen is off the lounge. No other rooms off the kitchen. Kitchen has a window that could be climbed out of, but no escape route as such as it on the first floor, and no roof below that you could climb down on to.

Not sure if that gives enough relevant info... any help appreciated.

[Jeremy-75qq8]

You can do as you wish once signed off for building regs as they are " at the time of sign off ".

However if it is wise or not is another issue.

Your lease and insurance may ( or may not ) required you to comply with fire regs or some such wording.

[sherman]

We lived in a rented flat with a self closer on the kitchen and living room doors.
We unscrewed the arms and tok them off.
Left the actual piston on the door.
Stored them in the drawer and put them back on just before we moved out.
No tradesman or person from the letting agency said a thing about it in the 7 years we were there.

[bobtail4x4]

sherman said:

We lived in a rented flat with a self closer on the kitchen and living room doors.
We unscrewed the arms and tok them off.
Left the actual piston on the door.
Stored them in the drawer and put them back on just before we moved out.
No tradesman or person from the letting agency said a thing about it in the 7 years we were there.

what would the insurance company say after a fire?

to the OP, it all depends on the layout, no one puts fire doors on for fun,

[Regbuser]

ajhmini said:

I've got a flat in a converted victorian house. Every door in the flat appears to be a fire door (solid, very heavy) but no self closers/seals etc. We'd like to remove the door in to the kitchen as the space is tight and blocks the furniture/kitchen units, is that allowed?...

6 Flats are spread over four floors of the building, all the flats have their own front door in to a communal stairwell. Our flat is one bed on a single floor (first floor). Kitchen is off the lounge. No other rooms off the kitchen. Kitchen has a window that could be climbed out of, but no escape route as such as it on the first floor, and no roof below that you could climb down on to.

Not sure if that gives enough relevant info... any help appreciated.

Is it allowed - No, contra to AD-B, especially into a kitchen.

[sherman]

bobtail4x4 said:

sherman said:

We lived in a rented flat with a self closer on the kitchen and living room doors.
We unscrewed the arms and tok them off.
Left the actual piston on the door.
Stored them in the drawer and put them back on just before we moved out.
No tradesman or person from the letting agency said a thing about it in the 7 years we were there.

what would the insurance company say after a fire?

to the OP, it all depends on the layout, no one puts fire doors on for fun,

We didnt have one.
All the doors were fire doors anyway.

It just made it a pain to carry something from the kitchen to the livingroom.
The bedroom and bathroom doors off the same hallway didnt have self closers.

[Wings]

The flat's main entrance door on to a communal hallway, should be a self closing fire door, the same applies to the flat's kitchen requiring the same. Nothing seems to stop my tenants from simply using a door stop to wedge the kitchen door permanently open.