Isn't the hanger required to hold 250 pounds plus the weight of the pipe
full of water?  Not just the 23 pounds?
Dave Canham

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Subject: Hanging branch lines from panel points

We are installing a grid system in a super store and the general contractor
is demanding that we hang all piping within 6" of a panel point of the
web-type roof joist.  There is a detail showing sprinkler pipe to be
installed in this location and a structural drawing showing the location of
the main.  We naturally installed the main to meet these criteria.  The
branch lines are run perpendicular to the joists so hangers for the branch
lines are spaced at 6'-0" apart which is at every joist.  This means that
there is a 23 lb load at each hanger.  Table 9.1.1.6.1(b) requires a 2 × 2 ×
1/8 angle iron and the joists have a 2 x 2 x 3/16 angle iron on top. 
   
  Has anyone else come across this requirement in the contract drawings and
had it applied to all sprinkler pipe?
   
  We can use trapeze hangers to meet this demand by the GC but it will also
raise the question in those of you who look up when you are in super stores,
"Was this system installed by a licensed contractor?”
   
  Matthew Stone
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