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A fire safety service person had to access to my unit block at 7.00am this morning in order to “measure” the front door of my apartment. This was not a practical joke or scam, it had to be done because apparently the whole door needed replacing because it wasn’t fire safety compliant.

I had not been told that the door was faulty. Upon inspection it was ascertained that there was nothing wrong with the door except that the secondary passage lock (not the main deadlock) had been decommissioned – I had done this to eliminate the extra effort of having to unlock two locks, at the same time when entering my apartment. The service person said that I had to have the two locks working – despite me saying that “surely if there was a fire in my apartment the least amount of locks/knobs one has to negotiate in order to escape the raging inferno the better”? 

I then asked why the whole door had to be replaced, and not just the lock, he replied that “the door has asbestos and therefore cannot be touched by anyone” – it is a wooden door! 

The situation has been resolved, I will replace the lock, supposedly with the risk of me contracting mesothelioma. 

Can someone out there in “strata safety land” explain why the secondary door lock/knob has to be working? when negotiating both it and the deadlock would use up precious seconds in attempting an escape from my flat.

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