The stagnant water can also discolour ruining furnishing when activated that may have been OK just drying out.Yes and when the alternative is burning to death I'll talk my legionaries chances.
The stagnant water can also discolour ruining furnishing when activated that may have been OK just drying out.Yes and when the alternative is burning to death I'll talk my legionaries chances.
In high rises sprinklers clearly do have advantages. If say, a fire breaks out in the hallway of a flat (the exit) and you are asleep in bed, by the time the smoke alarm sounds you may be trapped and on the 6th floor. A long way to jump.
By far the most important.cost/benefit and likelihood/risk factors need taken into account.
I would say sprinklers are essential in high rise. High-rise I found out, is between 7 and 10 floors depending on the height of the ceilings. All to do with the length of the fire brigade's ladders. I would redefine that as to how far down it is to drop out of a window. Dropping from the 4th floor will give serious injury or death. Maybe 4 floors minimum is a high rise.
I believe that if constructing an attic conversion, if the required exits cannot be conformed to, a sprinkler in the attic will get it through the regs in some cases. Simple to do having the one or two attic sprinkler heads off the mains.
From http://gov.wales/docs/desh/publications/151218householders-guide-to-fire-sprinklers-en.pdfDoes anyone know what the sprinkler regs are in Wales? Say a two floor detached house with three beds. Does it only need sprinkler heads in the kitchen, upstairs and hallway (exit point)?
but about an effective system working as a whole. Lots of these are missing from the London council blocks.
`In short, its not about any one thing, one measure (or material) in isolation, but about an effective system working as a whole.` That is the aim it seems.
I checked, 7 to 10 floors depending on ceiling height is high-rise, not 18 floors.
In many high-rises the cold water main is pumped. The water enters a holding tank from the street. The tank also act as a buffer reducing spikes on the mains system. If the cold water mains pipes, and pumps, are sized large enough to cope also with sprinklers, the sprinklers and cold water mains pipes can be combined. This gives a maintenance free sprinkler system. Not sure if this can be currently done in the regs.From http://gov.wales/docs/desh/publications/151218householders-guide-to-fire-sprinklers-en.pdf
AFAIUI, the sort of sprinkler system for tower blocks would need maintenance. If the 'maintenance' system is so poor it fails to install 1,000 fire doors (or fails to notice they have gone missing) then I am sceptical that it would look after a sprinkler system properly.
If the cold water mains pipes, and pumps, are sized large enough to coper for sprinklers, the sprinklers and cold water mains pipes can be combined. This gives a maintenance free sprinkler system. Not sure if this can be done in regs.
Oops. About right then.I hope you don't check sprinkler systems for a living. 18m not floors
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