#24216
Whale
Flatchatter

    Murray – unless one or more of the items shown in the shaded box in my last post #5 has been applied to your Plan, then due to its date of registration (1970) there’s no requirement for the Owners Corporation (O/C) to arrange fire safety inspections other than for piece of mind, where any of an inspector’s reported “requirements” are actually suggestions.

    So regarding the suggestion about self-closers being fitted to entry doors and their asbestos content, if those doors are in fact fire rated then they’re supposed to be kept closed in order to prevent draughts facilitating the passage of fire from one part of the building to another, and provided the asbestos is stable (i.e. within the original structure of the doors) then it’s not an issue.

    Personally I wouldn’t worry about self-closers on entry doors because as you quite correctly state people will prop them open, but from a due-diligence perspective I’d certainly ensure that the O/C took a proactive stance to making residents aware of the fact entry doors must be kept closed, and why.