Ive posted this in the stairs forum but realised it may be more suited to hear. Can anyone help me please.
Im currently selling my house and have to get a letter saying whether or not the stud partion walls that we removed from the first floor landing were fire retaining or not.
Our stairs are in the centre of the house and it has brick built walls either side to the first floor landing, then studded partion walls to the ceiling. We had the partion walls removed about 8 years ago and replaced with spindles. Building regs have seen this (previous query whilst selling our house) and said building regs wouldnt have been required as they were non load bearing walls.
So would the removed walls have been a firebreak or fire retaining?
I think I know the answer is not what I want to hear so Im really hoping someone tells me otherwise.
Thanks for any advice.
Im currently selling my house and have to get a letter saying whether or not the stud partion walls that we removed from the first floor landing were fire retaining or not.
Our stairs are in the centre of the house and it has brick built walls either side to the first floor landing, then studded partion walls to the ceiling. We had the partion walls removed about 8 years ago and replaced with spindles. Building regs have seen this (previous query whilst selling our house) and said building regs wouldnt have been required as they were non load bearing walls.
So would the removed walls have been a firebreak or fire retaining?
I think I know the answer is not what I want to hear so Im really hoping someone tells me otherwise.
Thanks for any advice.
