Klaus971
2012-03-11 19:35:14
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My inspector determined during the new building acceptance with a thermal imaging camera that the passage door from the garage to the utility room shows very high heat losses. The garage is not thermally insulated. The utility room is used as a storage and laundry room – it is heated with underfloor heating. The heating system (air/water heat pump) is also located here. As a passage door, my general contractor installed a T30 smoke protection steel door (Hörmann H3D – thermal transmittance coefficient: UD=1.9W/m²K). According to the manufacturer’s datasheet, the frame of this door is not thermally separated, and the door leaf is only slightly thermally insulated.
Questions:
1) Is it allowed/common to install a slightly insulated H3D door here (what does the Energy Saving Ordinance 2009 say about this)?
2) Is there a better-suited door from Hörmann? Possibly KSI-Thermo? Or another manufacturer. Or is it common to install two doors with an airlock here (regular front door AND fire protection door)?
(Note: The building authority informed me upon inquiry that the door must be self-closing and implemented in fire resistance class T30)
Questions:
1) Is it allowed/common to install a slightly insulated H3D door here (what does the Energy Saving Ordinance 2009 say about this)?
2) Is there a better-suited door from Hörmann? Possibly KSI-Thermo? Or another manufacturer. Or is it common to install two doors with an airlock here (regular front door AND fire protection door)?
(Note: The building authority informed me upon inquiry that the door must be self-closing and implemented in fire resistance class T30)