If I'm not mistaken, the carpet padding takes you out of ESFR right away because of inherent obstruction within the array (no longitudinal flues possible). And portable racks are a challenge to in-racks, I suppose ... We've done probably 4 or 5 warehouses that were either dedicated to or had significant flooring inventories, including and especially rolled carpets and pads and all have used CM at the roof with in-racks. One of them actually started under an ESFR system that we deconstructed and converted back to spray sprinklers, in order to get to the in-rack arrangement.
Steve Leyton Protection Design & Consulting San Diego, CA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Williams Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Carpet Pad Storage Who is the insurance company? They would probably have something to say about it. I'd start there. At 11:54 AM 6/16/2009, you wrote: >Question: How to most effectively protect the following - > >* Carpet pads (Group A plastic, expanded) >* Rolled and wrapped in plastic (non-encapsulated) >* On portable racks that are 7-feet high and 6-feet x 6-feet square >* Client desires to stack them 2-high (14-feet) > >Building is approximately 40-feet high (tilt >panel warehouse)with k-14 ESFR's calculated for 75 PSI (12 heads). > >The tenant space is fairly small at 30,000 >square feet and includes some 25-foot tall >double-row rolled carpet racks (with in rack sprinklers per FM criteria). > >Also contains some standard pallet racks with Class IV commodity to 25-feet. > >_______________________________________________ >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) Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ 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) __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4159 (20090616) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4159 (20090616) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ 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)
