Bobby Kolev
Registered User
Hello from a newbie in this forum and , more or less, in the world of commercial building ownership.
Found the website while researching an idea as it has an article about communicating doors in hotel rooms, signed up, scanned the welcome forum and I hope I am not jumping over my head by asking my question here.
Here it is: I have a small commercial building that I am renovating and reconstructing , e.g. breaking up one 3000 sqft suite I can't rent into 2 or 3 smaller ones.
My question is this: I consider installing communicating doors the individual suites. This way if someone wants more space (for office) all they'd have to do is open two doors (on both sides of the wall) and they have it.
If on the other hand someone wants just one suite as it is all they have to do is close and bolt their door.
Of course I am not sure how potential tenants will accept the idea of having a door in the wall, but that is only secondary to the question of how the code will look at it.
I'll appreciate your input on both practical and purely compliance side of things.
It goes beyond saying that at least one, possibly both doors should be standard 1 hour fire proof.
An interesting question is if just one door can do as well - ultimately it's not like it will be opened or closed very often and as long as each side can lock/bolt it on their end maybe one will be just fine.
Still the question remains if code would approve of it.
Thank you!
Found the website while researching an idea as it has an article about communicating doors in hotel rooms, signed up, scanned the welcome forum and I hope I am not jumping over my head by asking my question here.
Here it is: I have a small commercial building that I am renovating and reconstructing , e.g. breaking up one 3000 sqft suite I can't rent into 2 or 3 smaller ones.
My question is this: I consider installing communicating doors the individual suites. This way if someone wants more space (for office) all they'd have to do is open two doors (on both sides of the wall) and they have it.
If on the other hand someone wants just one suite as it is all they have to do is close and bolt their door.
Of course I am not sure how potential tenants will accept the idea of having a door in the wall, but that is only secondary to the question of how the code will look at it.
I'll appreciate your input on both practical and purely compliance side of things.
It goes beyond saying that at least one, possibly both doors should be standard 1 hour fire proof.
An interesting question is if just one door can do as well - ultimately it's not like it will be opened or closed very often and as long as each side can lock/bolt it on their end maybe one will be just fine.
Still the question remains if code would approve of it.
Thank you!
