self-closing fire doors in self-catering house?

Our house had door closers on all room doors with the communal ones also having magnetic door stops linked to the fire alarm system. I removed the lot! All outside doors have a knob on the inside of the lock in place of the normal key hole.

We do let our annex as a holiday apartment but have never been asked to fit automatic door closers!

Mike

I don't like Yale locks because (if we're talking about the same thing) you can lock yourself out. The kind my relatives like locks & unlocks with a key from the outside and a knob from the inside. I do think it's dodgy --- just in terms of security --- to have something like that near a letter slot or glass, though.

How many storeys are in the annex? That seems to make a difference.

That's probably he difference. Ours is only ground floor.

Mike

Glass in firedoors is wired to try and hold it in place for longer when it's softening (and possibly cracking) in heat.

However it's also a dreadful trip and fall hazard. It's by far the worst s= ort of glass to go through. It will break under that load, and the ends of = the wires cause really bad injuries, particularly to wrist tendons (and mos= t people go through glass doors wrists first).

of glass to go through. It will break under that load, and the ends of the wires cause really bad injuries, particularly to wrist tendons (and most people go through glass doors wrists first).

Yep - happened to someone in my year at university. I don't think the wire did any direct harm, but it held the glass in place to do horrendous damage when he instictively pulled his hands back through the holes in the glass, and cut the tendons in both wrists. He had to drop out for a year, for all the medical work and healing. I don't know what the end result was, not even sure if he ever returned to complete his degree.

When you pick up the extinguisher to put out the fire, the door closes. No problem. ;-)