Hi All, I would like to gauge your views on the fitting of smoke seals and intumescent strips to service intake cupboards which open out onto a common escape route serving a purpose built block of flats. One viewpoint is that they should not be installed, as given that there is not going to be a communal fire alarm system in most purpose built blocks of flats, people within the building are likely to become aware of a fire within a service intake cupboard at a later stage if smoke seals etc had been installed, i.e. once the compartment is breached. The purpose built flats (Colin Todd) guide do not set out that smoke seals should not be installed onto service intake cupboard doors for this reason. In fact it appears to indicate in section 62.12 that current benchmarks would dictate that doors opening on to a protected escape route (which I interpret to include dooors to service intake and riser cupboards) should be fitted with smoke seals. The only guidance which I can find which appears to support not fitting smoke seals to fire resisting doors in Lacors (section 21.3) where it recommends that where a communal detection system only is in place smoke seals should not be fitted to fire resisting doors opening out onto the escape route - which I find understandable. I would appreciate views and references to any further guidance on this. Ps... please do not reply by saying 'just do your risk assessment'. Part of a risk assessment is gathering info from a range of sources - which is what I am doing now. Thanks