Sprinklers in stairs
Sprinklers in stairs
(OP)
Just digging into protection of stairs, when NFPA 13 2013 edition calls out protection under the first "accessible" landing, is this underneath the 2nd floor landing as you look up?
Thank you,
Thank you,
Eric Hendrix, SET
NICET Certified
Design Manager





RE: Sprinklers in stairs
13-13 8.15.3.2.3.1 seems to confirm this, by saying that if the space under the stairs is blocked off so that storage can't occur then you don't need any sprinklers at the bottom.
RE: Sprinklers in stairs
I guess the older I get I tend to rethink many positions, as a challenge to myself I suppose.
Eric Hendrix, SET
NICET Certified
Design Manager
RE: Sprinklers in stairs
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Matt
RE: Sprinklers in stairs
We recently had an AHJ ask us to install sprinklers beneath every landing in a stairwell. NFPA 13 has a distinction between stairs and stairwells. Thankfully it was clearly worded enough to distinguish.
RE: Sprinklers in stairs
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Matt