Fire escape staircases for Sussex flats and workplaces

Who needs one

Maisonettes over shops whose internal stair lands inside the shop. Houses in multiple occupation coming up for licensing. Surgeries, nurseries and offices that need a second way down from the first floor. Function rooms above pubs. And every building where the Victorian iron escape has finally been condemned.

What compliant means

Compliance is a list, and every item of it appears on the drawing: a clear width sized to the occupancy, rise and going inside the Approved Document limits, guarding with no foothold in it, handrails on both sides when the width demands them, grip treads, and a landing outside every door that opens on to it. The fixings go into structure that has been checked, and the flight keeps its distance from any unprotected window it passes.

Landlords and managing agents

Tenants stay in place while we work, access is arranged through you or the block manager, and the paperwork you need for the file, drawings, method statement and handover pack, is issued at handover. Survey, drawing, making, galvanising, coating and fitting are all inside the one figure.

Questions we are asked about Fire escape staircases