I have a situation I have recently encountered regarding the sprinkling of elevator equipment rooms above the highest occupiable floor for NFPA 13 systems. It has always been conjecture, at least in the sprinkler industry in Florida, that elevator equipment rooms above the highest occupiable...
...I have a unique situation in an apartment building that my company sprinkled. Every so often the flow switch paddle "trips" sending a false signal to the alarm bell. After discovering that this happened without a leak, a blowout, or a sprinkler head going off we elected to replace the flow...
....I have a bit of a dilema here. I work for a fire sprinkler contractor and we are having to provide some sort of heat conductive properties to the fire sprinkler system to prevent freezing. We proposed using armaflex insulation but that was rejected by the A.H.J. We are having to use some...
