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I would like know if the building code has a clear opinion about this: This is a two family, the garden floor for rental and the duplex upstairs. I want to renovate the cellar and make a direct access from the duplex to the cellar. The garden apartment wont have access to the cellar.
I would like to remove the walls enclosing the stairs. The boiler will have a brick wall room and a fire door.
Do we need any type of fire door between the cellar and the rest of the house? Again, the boiler room will be enclosed in a room with a fire door.
The idea is to make the access to the cellar as open as possible, right now with all the doors and walls is not really welcoming. What the code of the DOB is saying about that?
And yes, when I decide to do the job I will hire an architect and a licensed and insured contractor but I don’t have any of them yet to ask questions. Before hiring anybody, I would like to know the DOB limitations about walls and fire doors separating the cellar and the rest of the house.