IFC 308.3.1 Prohibits charcoal or open flame on decks except single family or duplex, or unless protected with sprinklers. Then 903.3.1.2.1 tells you to protect all decks in 13R and tells you how to protect.
I think the feeling was that there was no way to enforce the prohibition of open flame cooking devices on decks, so it was easier to just require them all to be protected. Additional note: If you look in 13R at the fire loss statistics, decks are the first area in the sub 100 deaths per year, but higher than many other occupancies we protect with 13R. Thom McMahon, SET Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr P.O. Box 882136 Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926 _______________________________________________ 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)
