The sprinkler heads are activated by heat. Only the ones that get hot enough will flow water. The water will flow until the water is shut off from outside.
Thanks, assumed they were the same as commercial................but didn't want to assume
The sprinkler heads are activated by heat. Only the ones that get hot enough will flow water. The water will flow until the water is shut off from outside.
Guys I have been involved in this one since the push began nationally to try and require such systems in new residential construction. Truth is, those above stories are what people use to try and justify requring them. The reality is that there is not one single case nationally of lives saved due to residential sprinklers. Its like the anti gun crowd saying "if it only saves one life..." In actually it will add $6000 to the cost of your home, and if ever activated, greatly enhance the water damage done to your home. In Texas, we have to put these some homes of a certain size, thankfully OK does not require it yet. I have never had a client actually want a system after really researching it.
I would recomend upgrading your fire alarms, heat sensors, etc first.
Guys I have been involved in this one since the push began nationally to try and require such systems in new residential construction. Truth is, those above stories are what people use to try and justify requring them. The reality is that there is not one single case nationally of lives saved due to residential sprinklers. Its like the anti gun crowd saying "if it only saves one life..." In actually it will add $6000 to the cost of your home, and if ever activated, greatly enhance the water damage done to your home. In Texas, we have to put these some homes of a certain size, thankfully OK does not require it yet. I have never had a client actually want a system after really researching it.
I would recomend upgrading your fire alarms, heat sensors, etc first.
Found this information on a cost-benefit analysis of residential sprinklers: "In Scottsdale, 49 fires were reported in single-family homes that were equipped with sprinklers in the 15 years after legislation was implemented. In addition, over an eight-year period in Prince George's County, there were 117 fire incidents in households that resulted in sprinkler activation. In both jurisdictions, no fire deaths were experienced in homes protected with automatic sprinklers. [...] Moreover, in Scottsdale, it was estimated that fires in homes protected with sprinklers had an average property loss equal to $2,166. In residences without sprinkler protection, the average property loss was equal to $45,019.3 Similarly in Prince George's County, when compared to a random sample of structural fires that occurred in unsprinklered single-family homes over a two-year period before the sprinkler ordinance was adopted, the average estimated property loss was $31,667. Conversely, the estimated fire loss was $3,673 for sprinklered homes after the sprinkler ordinance was adopted." Now I think this was from a pro-fire sprinkler site, so I am curious what the other side of the aisle is on this? What are they missing here?
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