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Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta
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Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

(OP)
Can fire sprinkler pipe be in contact with duct work or conduits?

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

Normally yes

The fire sprinkler pipe cannot be supporting the duct or conduit

What is the real question

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

(OP)
11/4" drop down is against some ductwork and the super is trying to make me move it.
Same with the conduit.

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

Did he say why

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

(OP)
HE says its code. I can't find anything on it.

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

Not enough information is provided to answer the question. Putting certain materials in certain ducts with demonstrating a compliant reason to the Mechanical or Building inspector is a violation of the IBC or IMC. The MEP or Fire Protection Engineer needs to work this out.

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

It soumds like you are saying that a piece of the sprinkler pipe is touching the outside of a piece of duct or conduit????

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

(OP)
Yes, Just passing along side of it. Just happens to be touching it.

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

I do not think there is one in the sprinkler

Maybe the duct might vibrate the pipe, causing a problem a hundred years from now

Maybe ask the gc for a code reference

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

(OP)
OH YA. I am going to.

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

Sure it's not a "code violation". I'd be more concerned that it's a sloppy installation. If you are ok with that....

Regards
D

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be
Thomas Paine
www.ykfireprevention.ca



RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

Maybe the sprinkler pipe was there before the duct work and conduit????

RE: Can fire sprinkler pipe be in conta

"Maybe the sprinkler pipe was there before the duct work and conduit????"

Yes, I have seen this (or something quite similar) and recently. The sprinkler line was run in a warehouse and the duct work was installed later and it crossed the sprinkler line right beneath a sprinkler causing an obstruction. The fault would lie not with the mechanical contractor who installed the ducting, but with the engineer of record who didn't catch it.

Regards
D

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be
Thomas Paine
www.ykfireprevention.ca



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