Thom- Have a couple here, and suggested some improvements, we worked a little with the designer who's right up in Lewisburg, 20 min away.
It's a VERY NICE unit- Looks nice, very high quality- we suggested making a less-frills one, they concentrated on a super HQ version, and there's only a limited market for these at whatever $ they want for em, but there may be a larger market at 50% over the cost of std version of drum drips. The suggestions weren't to improve, they were more for affordability. Frankly, they built a heckuva mousetrap. And if you compare the cost and rather high probability for a "maintenance crew" draining drum drips screwing it up, despite how ez something like this looks to us, they'd pay for themselves in the first time you prevent a flood and FD response in a big box store especially- this pops into my mind since we'd had this type of call before, and you could buy a lot of these for the price of emergency service and clean up. I qualify "maint crew" since this person wasn't part of a maint dept, just a drone told how to drain drum drips and screwed up. I didn't want to be slamming maint guys that often do a great job. Had a job recently where they'd make sense (even if the installation didn't) where dry branchlines were run under a 24" high platform, so a conventional drum drip would have had to have been angled to work. The A/E didn't want to say "No" to the AHJ so they ran lines 18" AFF- with the required clearances, there'd been room for a piece of paper laid flat on the ground (?). See ya next week! glc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thom McMahon Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 5:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Metraflex "Never Trip Auxilary/condensate drain valve" Has anyone installed these in place of Drum Drips? And how satisfied are they with the cost vs. operation? www.nevertrip.com Thom McMahon Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr Steamboat Springs, CO 80488-2136 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926 _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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)
