Ladies and gentlemen, This one is stumping the engineer, arch, AHJ and now me.
We have a Hilton high rise motel with soffits around the perimeter of the rooms with res pendent sprinklers on opposing sides. The owner has instructed the GC to install 1X8 and some 1x10 boards vertically from wall to wall under the soffits on the walls adjacent to exterior walls with windows as a valence. The sprinklers will all be obstructed according to the book as they are only inches away from the valence. The AHJ has suggested that if the valences are 8" deep and 8" off the exterior wall the soffit rule may apply. I disagree in principle because they are not soffits and will not behave like soffits in the event of a fire (thanks to Roland's input on past issues). The valences were not on the drawings and the building is slated to open in 2 weeks. The question is that if the owner had waited until he got the CO and done this, or if he had used normal valences would this be an issue? Is this more of a decorative item that we can not predict or control, or is this really an obstruction? What do we do with this one? I am hoping that some of you with sprinkler testing experience can help with this one. Greg Living Water Fire Protection, LLC 1160 McKenzie Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-937-1850 Fax: 850-937-1852 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
