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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: natdan on May 17, 2009, 11:02:39 PM

Title: Emergency Lights - HMO
Post by: natdan on May 17, 2009, 11:02:39 PM
Can someone please clarify the requirements of emergency lighting in a conveted terraced house into 4 flats.  There is one stair and a front and rear dooe as exits.  The upstairs is 3 rooms used as bedrooms and the ground floor is 1 x kitchen, 1 x bedroom and one communal living area.

Emergency lighting requirements please...
Title: Re: Emergency Lights - HMO
Post by: nearlythere on May 18, 2009, 06:38:44 AM
Quote from: natdan on May 17, 2009, 11:02:39 PM
Can someone please clarify the requirements of emergency lighting in a conveted terraced house into 4 flats.  There is one stair and a front and rear dooe as exits.  The upstairs is 3 rooms used as bedrooms and the ground floor is 1 x kitchen, 1 x bedroom and one communal living area.

Emergency lighting requirements please...
Stairway enclosure should be sufficient.
Title: Re: Emergency Lights - HMO
Post by: jokar on May 18, 2009, 05:24:53 PM
Wouldn't it be nice if someone could be bothered to read the standards or the guidance that supports atypical premises.  Great question though, you may need some outside for people to be able to get away dependnt on the light levels.
Title: Re: Emergency Lights - HMO
Post by: nearlythere on May 18, 2009, 05:47:03 PM
Quote from: jokar on May 18, 2009, 05:24:53 PM
Wouldn't it be nice if someone could be bothered to read the standards or the guidance that supports atypical premises.  Great question though, you may need some outside for people to be able to get away dependnt on the light levels.
Not quite sure who you aimed that at Jokar?
Title: Re: Emergency Lights - HMO
Post by: johnny99 on May 18, 2009, 05:48:26 PM
Quote from: natdan on May 17, 2009, 11:02:39 PM
Can someone please clarify the requirements of emergency lighting in a conveted terraced house into 4 flats.  There is one stair and a front and rear dooe as exits.  The upstairs is 3 rooms used as bedrooms and the ground floor is 1 x kitchen, 1 x bedroom and one communal living area.

Emergency lighting requirements please...

To me, that doesn't look like a house converted into flats.  That looks like a two-storey shared house or bedsit.  In which case, the LACORS guidance says for a shared house:

"Conventional lighting. Emergency escape lighting maybe appropriate if route is complex and there is no borrowed light."

If it's more bedsit like, then the LACORS guide says:

"Conventional lighting (and emergency escape lighting if risk requires or there is no effective borrowed light.)"

I hope this helps.
Title: Re: Emergency Lights - HMO
Post by: natdan on May 18, 2009, 11:04:35 PM
A big help that last point, thank you.