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Location of fire escape window in 2-storey house?

  • 30-01-2015 6:37pm
    #1
    Possom1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    I'm to get a fire-escape window installed in a 2-storey house.

    I have the option of having it installed in a bathroom, where it would be possible to walk out onto a kitchen roof to escape.

    However it was pointed out to me that if the kitchen was on fire then obviously this would not be possible.

    Is it therefore better to have this installed on a back 1st floor bedroom where there would be a drop down to the ground since there is nothing here to walk out onto.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Prenderb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Prenderb


    Are you only having one installed or are you having more windows done? Is there a particular reason for having it installed, or is it just a recent worry about your fire safety?

    With the caveat that we don't know the layout of your house (A lot of this depends on the layout of your house to be honest) - thinking about the bathroom option, if the kitchen is on fire can you get downstairs and out the front door?

    Bear in mind that dropping from a window should be a last resort even in a fire.


    Technical Guidance Document B
    , section 1.5, has a lot of (current) standards information about fire escape windows, such as ensuring that the ground outside is suitable for pitching a ladder against etc.


  • #3
    Possom1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭Possom1


    Prenderb wrote: »
    Are you only having one installed or are you having more windows done?

    Just one. It's a small terraced house.
    Prenderb wrote: »
    Is there a particular reason for having it installed, or is it just a recent worry about your fire safety?
    Just having double glazing installed in the house which currently only has single glazing.
    Prenderb wrote: »
    the bathroom option, if the kitchen is on fire can you get downstairs and out the front door?

    Yes, provided the stairs are not on fire.
    Prenderb wrote: »

    Technical Guidance Document B
    [/URL], section 1.5, has a lot of (current) standards information about fire escape windows, such as ensuring that the ground outside is suitable for pitching a ladder against etc.
    Okay, well pitching a ladder would not be an option if the escape window was in the bathroom as there would be a kitchen in the way.


  • #4
    Prenderb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,560 ✭✭✭Prenderb


    Possom1 wrote: »
    Just one. It's a small terraced house.


    Just having double glazing installed in the house which currently only has single glazing.

    Why not have all windows fitted as fire escape windows? Or is there only one possibility upstairs? The size isn't too much, if you're getting other windows done I think most would advise having them all fitted to F.E. size.

    Yes, provided the stairs are not on fire.

    Your smoke alarms should wake you up, hopefully, before the fire spreads into your escape route. Keep doors closed at night!
    Okay, well pitching a ladder would not be an option if the escape window was in the bathroom as there would be a kitchen in the way.

    :p but you could pitch the ladder against the kitchen...


  • #5
    Possom1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭Possom1


    Prenderb wrote: »
    Why not have all windows fitted as fire escape windows? Or is there only one possibility upstairs? The size isn't too much, if you're getting other windows done I think most would advise having them all fitted to F.E. size.

    I hadn't really thought about that. Upstairs the tall and narrow windows are quite low to the floor, so I was thinking perhaps a potential hazard when open, particularly if children were about.
    Prenderb wrote: »
    :p but you could pitch the ladder against the kitchen...
    Yes, this is true.


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