Fire Sprinklers In Attics

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Fire sprinklers in attics.

Sprinklers valves accessories grooved products blazemaster cpvc sprinkcad. The first interpretation stated that attics cannot be considered concealed spaces and therefore always require sprinklers. When compared to standard spray sprinklers which have restricted nfpa 13. Consequently the required number of sprinklers to calculate and system demand is drastically reduced from that seen with standard protec tion.

Tyco fire protection products is a leading manufacturer of water based fire suppression system components and ancillary building construction products. Sprinklers for protecting attics. The positioning and use of these sprinklers in conjunction with each other and their complimentary ef fects on fire control has been carefully considered for these specific attic structure hazards. Model v bb back to back specific application attic sprinkler.

Model v sd single directional specific application attic sprinkler. The subsequent staff interpretation attempts to clarify this issue much in the same way that this article is attempting to do stating that attics can be concealed spaces and therefore do not always require sprinkler. As shown in table 1 nfpa national fire protection association standards 13d and 13r both allow omission of sprinklers from attics not used or intended for living purposes or storage in the case of nfpa 13r and that do not contain fuel fired equipment. Cpvc is allowed on wet pipe systems only when used with viking s model v bb back to back and v sd single directional attic sprinklers it is possible to utilize a single line of piping at the attic peak eliminating the need for branch lines and greatly reducing the number of required sprinklers and associated materials.

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