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Fire Exit Locked???

  • 31-10-2008 12:52am
    #1
    AIR-AUSSIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭


    Hey couldnt find a more suitable forum for this.

    I am currently living in a Apartment Block where they lock Fire Exits. I'm wondering does anyone know if there is somewhere you can report this to?

    The Apartment Complex is in Dublin.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    SuperSean11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    How do they lock it? A chain?


  • #3
    AIR-AUSSIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭AIR-AUSSIE


    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    How do they lock it? A chain?

    There seems to be some mechanism at the side with a key hole so they must lock it like that....


  • #4
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,408 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    You should contact the fire officer of your local council.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »
    Hey couldnt find a more suitable forum for this.

    I am currently living in a Apartment Block where they lock Fire Exits. I'm wondering does anyone know if there is somewhere you can report this to?

    The Apartment Complex is in Dublin.

    Thanks

    Is there a "break-glass" box containing the key or other similar device, could you open the door quickly in an emergency!


  • #6
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,942 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    is there an emergency escape sign over this door?? (you know the one, the green one with the man running)....

    some fire doors can be kept locked when not in use... usually these doors have a sign stating this however.......


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  • #7
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,159 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Ignore this


  • #8
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,942 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    The following applies to the provision of fire
    safety signs on fire doors:
    (a) Except for doors identified in (b) below, all fire
    doors should be marked (at about eye level) with
    the appropriate fire safety sign complying with BS
    5499: Part 5: 2002 (mandatory signs as set out in
    Annex A of that document) according to whether
    the door is:
    (i) to be kept closed when not in use,
    (ii) to be kept locked when not in use, or
    (iii) held open by an electro-magnetic or electromechanical
    device.
    Fire doors to cupboards and to service ducts should
    be marked on


  • #9
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    It's worth pointing out, fire doors and fire exit doors are not the same thing. One is to contain a fire, the other a means of escape.


  • #10
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,942 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    nipplenuts wrote: »
    It's worth pointing out, fire doors and fire exit doors are not the same thing. One is to contain a fire, the other a means of escape.

    very good point.....

    the Op states that its an exit rather than a fire door....

    ignore my mad ramblings above please... :pac:


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