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Better put a phone line into the bedroom then to make that call. Might be more use to have an opening bedroom window.


Normally when we get beyond jumping out of the windows, i.e. 3 stories or taller, then we need to look for  fire doors to the stairways. LABC doc on loft conversions and fire proofing of stair ways  One solution is to make the top floor be 30min resistant compartment to a fire on the lower floors, other methods include sprinklers, second stairways, and more complex alarm arrangements.

Of course if modern houses had floor joists of the traditional pattern being an 8  by 2 or 10 by 3 inch slice of tree depending on the span, instead of the modern fad of some origami structure of a vertical thin blade of chip board and a couple of bits of wood that look like roof battens to make an I beam, the the floor would be fine in a fire for half an hour  even without the ceiling, so some of the newer advice is a necessary  reaction to new building techniques with less strength in reserve.

Better put a phone line into the bedroom then to make that call. Might be more use to have an opening bedroom window.


Normally when we get beyond jumping out of the windows, i.e. 3 stories or taller, then we need to look for  fire doors to the stairways. LABC doc on loft conversions and fire proofing of stair ways  One solution is to make the top floor be 30min resistant compartment to a fire on the lower floors, other methods include sprinklers, second stairways, and more complex alarm arrangements.

Of course if modern houses had floor joists of the traditional pattern being an 8  by 2 or 10 by 3 inch slice of tree depending on the span, instead of the modern fad of some origami structure of a vertical thin blade of chip board and a couple of bits of wood that look like roof battens to make an I beam, the the floor would be fine in a fire for half an hour  even without the ceiling, so some of the newer advice is a necessary  reaction to new building techniques with less strength in reserve.