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plasterboarding a kitchen ceiling

Halo Jones

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We have knocked through from kitchen to dining room to create a 40 m2 kitchen/family room and opened up the kitchen to the stairway. We had to install two steel beams which the structural engineer said had to be painted with intumescent paint to meet 30 min fire rating. Fine did that. Because we opened up the stairwell building control specified that we had to install a whole heap of fire alarms and ensure that all upper bedrooms had escape windows. Also fine.

Today we took delivery of plasterboard for the ceilings and the delivery guy, very chatty, says that we should really use fireboard for the kitchen ceiling, he had a customer last year that was forced by BC to rip out the ceiling and install fireboard blah blah.

Our BCO has never mentioned this, or our engineer, and I cannot find it specified anywhere in the technical handbook so does anyone have any idea where I should look to find this out as google searches have given every answer under the sun?!

In case it makes a difference I should also say that there are bedrooms above the kitchen.
 
We simply had to use 2 x 12mm round the steel beam when we did something similar. If in doubt ask - far better for a little extra expense now than a lot later at sign off time!
 
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