The Natural Philosopher wrote:
wrote:
I'm considering putting narrower doors on my 2 bedrooms. They
are currently 762mm (30in), but making one of them narrower
(686mm, 27in) enables a much better use of space in the back
bedroom; thus to keep them matching I should probably change
both (the doors are near each other).

Its illegal to do that actually. Disabled access ********. Basically
if you 'materially alter' a door width, it then comes under building
control and is required to be altered to comply with disability
legislation.
Which is probably 850/900mm

Admittedly it's many years since I've read the Building regs, but that
statement is news to me regarding the access regs for the disabled in
*PRIVATE* dwellings - especially as it's almost unheard of in modern,
private dwellings to have internal doors wider than 2' 6" (762mm) in normal
circumstances. Could you provide a link to the relevant regulation for
*private* dwellings please?

Any comments? I want the space advantages, but am wary of finding
out after the fact that they seem annoyingly "too narrow". I'm
not too concerned about furniture sizes, since ours is mostly all
flatpack.


Just don't tell the BCO.

I didn't realise that there is actually a need to inform the BCO about that
type of alteration (the mortgage lender possibly if they're pedantic, but
not the BCO).

Cash