Is it? What are the rules?
(I provide smoke alarms (x2), a fire extinguisher and blanket, but not because of any rules, just common sense).
What a waste of taxpayers money!
...r extremely trivial reasons such as the extractor fan in the kitchen has a filter and is not piped to outside, the extractor fans in the bathrooms must have a 15 minute overrun and need to be piped externally...
The extractor in the kitchen is a ventless extractor with a carbon filter which doesn't need to be piped outside.Out of curiosity? How do they work at all if they are not piped to if not outside? Where do they pump the air too?
I'm well aware of the housing regs ajapale, I'm just incensed that they entered my property without notification or permission.Maybe, but its the law.
http://www.environ.ie/en/Legislation/DevelopmentandHousing/Housing/FileDownLoad,19142,en.pdf (S.I. No. 534 of 2008 HOUSING (STANDARDS FOR RENTED HOUSES) REGULATIONS 2008) pdf file.
Adequate ventilation shall be provided for the removal of water vapour
from kitchens and bathrooms
I'm well aware of the housing regs ajapale, I'm just incensed that they entered my property without notification or permission.
I'm registered with PRTB, but feel that if I have to carry out a BER on the house I might come in for some hefty costs. Is this part of the County Council check?
The extractor in the kitchen is a ventless extractor with a carbon filter which doesn't need to be piped outside.
The extractors in the bathrooms are vented to the eaves in the attic - looks like they'd prefer a hole in the wall!
...The Regulations state that bathrooms must be vented to external air. Venting to the eaves of the attic meets this requirement.
I don't have the text on it but a place I lived in two years ago had a section in the lease dedicated to the landlord's legal responsibility to provide fire safety equipment.
Also, when a rep from dcc called to a house I lived in earlier this year to do an inspection, one of the things she commented on was the lack of any fire safety equipment and the landlord's legal responsibility to provide same, she specifically mentioned that smoke alarms and a fire blanket were compulsory.
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