Todd: I would be interested in finding out the cause of the CPVC failure. Please post it when you find out. I know of another building that has a fire pump and CPVC. This building has had multiple CPVC failures.
Thanks. Mark Hasenmyer, PE MEH Fire Protection Engineering LLC 1311 River Oaks Drive Flower Mound, TX 75028 Office (972) 874-2662 Fax (972) 874-5591 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Williams - FPDC Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Interesting story This happened just up the road from me. http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x579214634. It's good for sprinklers, bad for water damage. I was talking to a fitter (he didn't do the job, but claimed to be familiar with it) who told me that the building has a fire pump for the standpipe and the sprinkler piping is CPVC. His thought was that if air is trapped in the CPVC pipe and there is a water hammer from the pump starting, that could cause a CPVC pipe to burst. I would think if the jockey pump is set properly, water hammer would not be an issue. Any thoughts? Any experience with CPVC bursting due to water hammer? I know the Fire Marshal fairly well and I'll see what I can glean from him next time we speak. Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ 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)
