Our house is in a fairly remote rural area (Dartmoor). We are having some building works done and the Building Control Officer has concerns that due to the location he would recommend sprinkler system in the downstairs area (there will be a woodburner) so facilitate escape, and also avoid the whole building down in the event ofa fire. Although it will cost about £3k on top of an already escalated build cost. It seems to be a highly recommended rather than insistance.
Is this really worth it?
We'd only have a fire on when we are there. All bedroom windows are escapable (and overlook grass). If we're not in the only fire risk would be from the gas boiler, and how much of a risk is that really?
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Rural house so fire risk - do we have to put in an expensive sprinkler system?
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betterwhenthesunshines · 15/06/2012 14:11
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