The boat cave needs a fire door
When the fire department came to do their inspections, they told me that I would need a fire door on the boat cave. I need to build this door before I get the final inspection from the building inspector. The door will need to be solid wood 1.75 inches thick. I hope to build the door next weekend, so here is a before picture.
posted by Brad at 8:11 AM
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What kind of Fire Rating are you shooting for? I assume it's a 45 minute door in a 1 hour wall?
The walls in the boat cave are 10 inch concrete and the ceiling in the cave is 8 inch pre-stressed concrete planks with 4 inches of concrete on top of the planks.
The building inspector says I need a 20 minute door, he also said that the door needs to be 1.75 inches solid wood.
Ah, a 20 minute door is basically a smoke partition. You might need to put a gasket of somekind (ie, weatherstriping) around the jamb to prevent smoke from transfering from one side to the other, but shouldn't need extra hardware like automatic closers and the like.
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The building inspector told me I did not need automatic closers, but he did not tell me I needed weather striping. I will not install it until he tells me I needed it.
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