Mancave house - parking the car indoors. Building regs?

[hedgefinder]

paulrockliffe said:

Because you're worried about a false-alarm flooding your house? I looked at that route but I think the risk is higher of flooding than fire, though of course the consequences are lower. I also wonder what insurance companies think of sprinklers wrt their premiums?

My issue is that I would need to replace 5 solid oak doors, 2 of which are glazed, and swap my architrave for stuff that adds 10mm to my door frames for the new doors. £2k I reckon at least, but all the doors are always open, so they won't do anything in a fire. Complete waste of money.

I have fire detection in every room, all interlinked etc, so I can't see how I need 30 minute protection as we'll be out within minutes. I'm just looking for a sensible way to comply with the regulations.

no, nothing to do with false alarms setting them off as they way they are designed now its pretty much unheard of.
I am in exactly the same position, the building control officer(will be the same one as yours... good guy, but wont mention any names on here) was of the opinion that fully wired and interconnected smoke alarms in every room of the house was enough as no one was going to sleep for more than ten seconds with all the noise they make and should be out of harms way before a sprinkler system had had any chance to be doing any good...
the head of building control however had other ideas.. and required a Full coverage sprinkler system to be installed.
I had planned on going on a sprinkler system installation course and obtaining the required certificate as they would not accept just anyone or any plumber installing even if it is all just simple pipework... but have just put it off and put it off in the hope that there is another way around it so all the floors dont have to come back up etc..... a right PITA...
The only place I would actually LIKE to have a sprinkler system installed is in the garage/workshop.

[paulrockliffe]

Ha ha, I can see my loft going the same way, just sitting it out hoping for something to change! I could probably find out when the head inspector chap is likely to retire if that would help?

I hadn't considered that they'll want qualifications to install, I assumed they would just inspect the work. Do you think that sort of thing might cause me problems as I'm not planning to get anyone in for anything other than electrics and plastering? I've got calcs etc all sorted.

[Little Lofty]

paulrockliffe said:

Ha ha, I can see my loft going the same way, just sitting it out hoping for something to change! I could probably find out when the head inspector chap is likely to retire if that would help?

I hadn't considered that they'll want qualifications to install, I assumed they would just inspect the work. Do you think that sort of thing might cause me problems as I'm not planning to get anyone in for anything other than electrics and plastering? I've got calcs etc all sorted.

You could go down the private inspector route. They offen have different interpretations of the regs,
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