and do we also seal up the stairwell to stop fire from spreading upstairs? bunk beds in the kitchen.
Tel your a genius, and the best guy on here without a doubt. I had exactly the same comment from a BCO the other day. Fire rated ruddy nonsense most of this, when you have the biggest Flu you could ever imagine in the shape of the stairway.
If someone has told a customer they have to have them all ripped out he should put on a mask and change his name to Turpin, and not Betty.
 
in an average single family house, the only requirement for fire rated downlights is in the ceiling of an integral garage.
 
To a separate property?

Any fire barrier, so it could be the barrier to an upstairs flat, or the ceiling of a built in garage, or the ceiling below a loft room where BC have required that fire door etc be fitted to separate that loft room, or even if the downright is installed in the pink fire line plasterboard boxing in an RSJ.
Plus of course the normal ceiling where it give 30minute protection to the void containing the floor joists.
 
Any fire barrier, so it could be the barrier to an upstairs flat, or the ceiling of a built in garage, or the ceiling below a loft room where BC have required that fire door etc be fitted to separate that loft room, or even if the downright is installed in the pink fire line plasterboard boxing in an RSJ.
Plus of course the normal ceiling where it give 30minute protection to the void containing the floor joists.

How many people fit downlights in their garages?
 
Any fire barrier, so it could be the barrier to an upstairs flat, or the ceiling of a built in garage, or the ceiling below a loft room where BC have required that fire door etc be fitted to separate that loft room, or even if the downright is installed in the pink fire line plasterboard boxing in an RSJ.
Plus of course the normal ceiling where it give 30minute protection to the void containing the floor joists.
That's just downlight daft.
 
aren't RSJs non-combustible steel since wooden ones are now outlawed under amd.3?
 
aren't RSJs non-combustible steel since wooden ones are now outlawed under amd.3?
Only if they have fire retarding paint on them apparently. I think all this stuff must be to make it easier to identify the corpses afterwards.
 
Hi Gents

Just wanted opinions on the above

I know there are various factors that could sway opinion...

Customers that have a large house with downlights throughout are not too pleased when you give them a four figure quote to rip out the lot......

Cheers

Dave
Whats the horse called?
 
I now understand why the buildings in 911 were weakened by fire to the point of collapse .

Full of plastic consumer units and non fire rated down lights . :ninja:
and steel rsj's.
 
I now understand why the buildings in 911 were weakened by fire to the point of collapse .

Full of plastic consumer units and non fire rated down lights . :ninja:

If they had them in 911 they must have had 'em in 1666.
A few weakened in then too......did clean things up after the 'great plague', though.
 
It is not the down-lights going up in flames that is the problem. The problem is the 75mm holes, you have cut in a half-hour rated plasterboard ceiling, allowing the fire to spread.


On a side note, never seen a fire rated ceiling speaker, have seen many of those installed lately, must be at least a 200mm hole in the plasterboard

are the audio/visual guys fitting speaker sized fire hoods nowadays?
 
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