Soled73
16-05-2007, 01:45 AM
Hi,
Can you help me, I'm in the process of converting a property into 4 self contained flats. At the moment I have a very good builder and a very bad architect. The builder works very fast and the architect very slow.
During the course of the works we've requested the building regs officer visit the site. He visited at the outset (no problems). We've then requested a revisit during the building works. Unfortunetly for one reason and another the officer did not vist until the end of the project. At this stage the walls were up and the laminate down.
The officer has concerns over the amount of fire protection between the comunal areas and the self contained flats. He needs to verify there is 60 minutes fire resistance in place. Rather than take down the walls he suggested that a "sound test" should be carried out. This will indirectly verify if the sound proofing is sufficient, if it is then the fire resistance will also be sifficient.
Can anyone tell me how I go about getting one done, and what the potential costs would be. The property is in the Leeds area.
I asked the architect and the building regs officer, but they both confirmed that non of them had ever performed such a test!
Can you help me, I'm in the process of converting a property into 4 self contained flats. At the moment I have a very good builder and a very bad architect. The builder works very fast and the architect very slow.
During the course of the works we've requested the building regs officer visit the site. He visited at the outset (no problems). We've then requested a revisit during the building works. Unfortunetly for one reason and another the officer did not vist until the end of the project. At this stage the walls were up and the laminate down.
The officer has concerns over the amount of fire protection between the comunal areas and the self contained flats. He needs to verify there is 60 minutes fire resistance in place. Rather than take down the walls he suggested that a "sound test" should be carried out. This will indirectly verify if the sound proofing is sufficient, if it is then the fire resistance will also be sifficient.
Can anyone tell me how I go about getting one done, and what the potential costs would be. The property is in the Leeds area.
I asked the architect and the building regs officer, but they both confirmed that non of them had ever performed such a test!