Dave, This sounds like storage of household goods typically for military personnel on deployment. The FM in the jurisdiction where I encountered this required aisles and flue spaces although I forget what criterion he based the acceptable layout on nor the performance rating of the system. There was no foam. In this case he had to make a call, chose a criterion, and said that'll have to do.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Joe Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > FM has not tested this, nor are they likely to. This is not a commodity, due > to the size, shielding, and variability of contents. Trying to protect > against a fire inside one of the boxes with ceiling sprinklers is like > trying to protect against a fire in a bedroom by putting sprinklers at the > roof in the attic. > > Joe > > Dave Phelan wrote: >> >> Good Friday Afternoon All, >> >> I'm looking for design info and perhaps an FM test report / data sheet for >> the warehouse storage of wooden moving crates. I have an existing >> warehouse >> where they store these 8 foot X 7 foot X 5 foot plywood crates of various >> items (all classes). The problem I see it is the crates are nested into >> rows and rows without any breaks, flue spaces, aisles, etc. There just >> doesnt seem to be any means by which water could penetrate the endless >> stacks, let alone reach the burning crate. >> >> The warehouse is reporting a .22 over 2000 sq. foot design area and is a >> wet >> system. Has anyone on the list come across this type of occupancy and how >> did you design for it? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dave Phelan, >> An AHJ in NJ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sprinklerforum mailing list >> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum >> For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Ron Greenman at home.... _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
