Internal doors - safety glass

Internal doors - safety glass

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Pferdestarke

Original Poster:

7,179 posts

186 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Property purchased 1986. Internal glazed doors do not have safety glass.

Now renting out property. Do I have to install safety glass legally?

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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You don't have a responsibility to bring everything in the property up to current regs. Any glass you change in areas that require safety glass should meet current standards of course.

If you're concerned perhaps fit clear film.

Pferdestarke

Original Poster:

7,179 posts

186 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Thank you.

SAB888

3,231 posts

206 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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Just a thought but, if someone had a nasty accident with the glass, could there be any civil lawsuit because it wasn't safety glass. . . just a thought.

Paul Drawmer

4,864 posts

266 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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In the above scenario, could anyone prove that you were negligent in not replacing the glass with safety glass?

Best you change it then.

williredale

2,866 posts

151 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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SAB888 said:
Just a thought but, if someone had a nasty accident with the glass, could there be any civil lawsuit because it wasn't safety glass. . . just a thought.
I had a nasty accident with an internal door in a rented house. There wasn't a civil lawsuit but when I got the glazier round he had to fit safety glass.

Luckily there was a canoe on the far side of the door which broke my drunken falling down stairs before I damaged myself further. Unluckily the canoe fell into another window which also broke...

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Saturday 31st January 2015
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There you go OP. Install a canoe. Should prevent legal action from clumsy drunks.

SkinnyPete

1,411 posts

148 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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Ah, internal glazed doors. I have some, they look nice but in reality they are a bit horrid to live with.

The glass was not sandwiched tight against the wood so it rattled badly when you shut the door although less so now I've filled the cracks with silicon.

Still, 4/5mm EN 12600 IC3 glass, feels a bit fragile. I do have visions of drunken people falling straight through...


williredale

2,866 posts

151 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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Yup. The door I went through was half glazed. I tumbled down the stairs and stuck my arms out to stop myself. If the canoe hadn't been on the other side I would have broken the glass with my hands and then folded myself onto the broken shards stuck in the rest of the door. As it was I got away with badly cutting my hands. One knuckle still has a big scar on it17 years later.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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Admit it. You were playing drunk extreme urban stair canoeing weren't you. hehe

Dr Mike Oxgreen

4,101 posts

164 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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Does it have to be a canoe or would a dinghy do instead?

Pferdestarke

Original Poster:

7,179 posts

186 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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I'm confused. I don't have to change the entire downstairs internal glazing. But I do need to buy several canoes!

Renovation

1,763 posts

120 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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I'd fit film - take a look on youtube it's very tough.

williredale

2,866 posts

151 months

Sunday 1st February 2015
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B17NNS said:
Admit it. You were playing drunk extreme urban stair canoeing weren't you. hehe
hehe That was earlier in the night. And it wasn't me! Honest!!!

Anyway, we've already decided that canoes are a valid alternative to safety glass.