If he sends you an email or letter ok'ing it, and the heads are reasonably new, you might consider it- but it sure saves a lot of liability and discussion to just put new ones in....
We're doing a 3-story IL where the Owner used to be a volunteer firefighter. Just wanted something with hose valves but once we got into discussing it, it's far easier to go ahead and put the control valves at the base of each, run 4" instead of 3", and comply with #14. Same idea. Just do it right as much as you can. glc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Thurston Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 2:48 PM To: George Church Subject: Re[2]: Remodel Jobs Hello George, The AHJ is suggesting we reuse the heads to save cost while I bid the job with replacing all the heads. Monday, July 2, 2007, 1:07:06 PM, you wrote: > Only new heads shall be used. > I'm not looking it up, but I doubt there's much reading between the lines on > this one. Despite that, a friend who's on #13 told me (and maybe on the > Forum, don't recall, hence he remains unnamed here) he knows better but > cannot compete in his market if he didn't re-use them as you want to- and > maybe (until a lawsuit) it's a local tradition sort of thing. > In this case, it looks like the AHJ is enforcing the code, and I don't know > where to find a leg to stand on that would hold up to the inevitable > question "what didn't you understand about only new heads shall be used?". > glc > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles > Thurston > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 12:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Remodel Jobs > Hello sprinklerforum, > Minor debate with an AHJ over reusing heads in a space that is > remodeling. 6.2.1 Will only allow new heads to be installed. I know > about removing the head reducer from the pipe and putting back on a > new pipe to move a head, But these are 401 style and the reducer is > covered by the cup. IS there anything in NFPA13 to allow reuse of > heads when a space is remodeled ? -- Best regards, Charles mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
