How will you fire caulk the penetration?

Greg McGahan
Operations Manager

Living Water Fire Protection
1160 McKenzie Road
P.O. Box 877
Cantonment, Florida 32533
(850) 937.1850 | Fax (850) 937.1852 | CellĀ (850) 554.3231
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
[email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:07 AM
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Subject: RE: Rating of the sprinkler escutcheon

Not measurable.  If the wall is to be 1hr rated construction, the fire stopping 
material for the penetration must provide equal.  How would you measure the 
value of the sprinkler in relation to hours of equivalent resistance?


Craig L. Prahl, CET   
Fire Protection Specialist
Mechanical Department
CH2MHILL
Lockwood Greene
1500 International Drive
PO Box 491, Spartanburg, SC  29304-0491
Direct - 864.599.4102
Fax - 864.599.8439
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http://www.ch2m.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg McGahan
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Rating of the sprinkler escutcheon

What about the sprinkler itself? Doesn't it offer something of value at the 
point of penetration?

Greg McGahan
Operations Manager

Living Water Fire Protection
1160 McKenzie Road
P.O. Box 877
Cantonment, Florida 32533
(850) 937.1850 | Fax (850) 937.1852 | CellĀ (850) 554.3231 [email protected]



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sal Izzo (TECH- 
103)
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Rating of the sprinkler escutcheon

I believe CPVC is considered a combustible penetration when running through a 
rated assembly and therefore would require a listed firestop assembly.  Metal 
escutcheons provide no rating; the IBC permits only an escutcheon to cover the 
annular space of a sprinkler penetration when the pipe is noncombustible, i.e., 
steel, copper, conduit, etc.

Regards,

Salvatore Izzo, P.E. SFPE
Manager - Reliable Technical Services

________________________________________
From: [email protected] 
[[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Gillett 
[[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Rating of the sprinkler escutcheon

Our situations - we have a hotel designed to 13R that requires our cpvc piping 
to be run through a fire rated wall between two units with 4.0K residential 
semi-recessed sidewall heads spraying into both units. The other is the 
extended coverage 8.0K semi-recessed sprinkler spraying into the stairwell 
(also fed by cpvc from the corridor). The question being asked by the fire 
marshall - What is the fire rating of the escutcheons?



Bobby Gillett

Sr. Project Manager

Key Fire Protection, Inc.

(731) 424-0130 office  (731) 424-9285 fax

(731) 267-4853 cell

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