08-02-2016, 03:15 PM
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Re: Calling Builders..or anyone who knows..
Originally Posted by Tpin
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ok, now I have it.Fire, that's your answer.
If the hall were in the centre then so would the stairs be. If there were a fire on the landing the fire would spread quicker to all other rooms(internal walls being of wooden stud construction)
Isn't that just modern houses though, being stud walls? With traditional houses, aren't internal walls usually brick - so perhaps less of a hazard ?
08-02-2016, 03:20 PM
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Re: Calling Builders..or anyone who knows..
Originally Posted by Tpin
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No, if you imagine the landing of a traditional house it's at the top of the stairs on the gable end. The hall, stairs and landing will be lit from the front door and a window in the gable wall which would also double as a fire escape. The rooms will be serviced from this landing.Now, if the stairs were in the middle you'd have very little natural light, just a tad from the front door, you couldn't put a window in the outer front elevation as this window would be unreachable therefore useless as a fire escape.
It's only a theory.
But if it's a case of escape or access for fire purposes, there's the upstairs windows.
No different than the modern houses with stairs off or in the lounge.
If there was a fire down in the lounge and going up the stairs, presumably they'd have to use the upstairs windows for escape.
Same for a terrace. The stairs can be between the party wall and the lounge so no windows on either side of the stairs. Upstairs windows to escape.
I reckon I've just quashed your theory
08-02-2016, 03:22 PM
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Re: Calling Builders..or anyone who knows..
Originally Posted by Tpin
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No, a lot of internal walls were lath and plaster over stud partitioning.The only solid walls are usually those that are load bearing.
08-02-2016, 03:24 PM
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Sad that I am, I can't stop the cells ticking for a solution. There must be one!Could it be down to posh or cheaper or council? Nope, they build them either way in both ends of the price bracket.
Does a particular builder have a penchant for lounge-lounge or hall-hall style. Nope.
Is it down to different areas of the country? Nope.
Could it be down to different eras then? Nope. In any era of house building, you find more lounges to lounges than halls to halls.
Anyone know an architect who knows?
08-02-2016, 03:53 PM
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Where did you find the stats for that?(If there were a fire on my stairs, and I happened to be upstairs at the time, I'd have to get out of an upstairs window. Probably applies to most of us. I imagine a few limbs would get broken.)
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