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Residential Sprinklers and Steep Slopes

Residential Sprinklers and Steep Slopes

Residential Sprinklers and Steep Slopes

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This question relates to the problem that none of the residential fire sprinklers currently on the market are listed for slopes greater than 8:12, and NFPA 13D requires residential fire sprinklers.

Has anyone run across single family home projects with ceiling slopes greater than 8:12.  What has been common practice for designing these sprinkler systems?  I have seen AHJs requesting increasing the design area to 3 heads (50% increase).  This helps in some repect, but the sprinklers are still being installed outside of their listing.

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