A Day At The Races. As with most intellectual humor, it involved a four-legged animal. Though not a Virginia homebuilder, which in hindsight would have been profoundly funny.
Steve Leyton Protection Design & Consulting San Diego, CA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Watt Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Virginia Home Builders The Marx brothers demonstrated this type of manual deluge system way back when. Don't recall the movie title but they were in a hospital. Thomas Watt ----- Original Message ----- From: "MOWLE Kevin(K) - BRUCE POWER" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:00 PM Subject: RE: Virginia Home Builders Re: item #2. Perhaps a list of Hollywood flics showing showing incorrect sprinkler operation. I put my vote in for the last or 2nd last James Bond where a pull station activates a bank of sprinklers. K. Mowle Bruce Power. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Smith, Steven D. (CSFD) Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Virginia Home Builders 1- I didn't know that sprinklers detected smoke. 2- The misnomer of all sprinklers going off at once has been propagated by Hollywood and Doritos. 3- OF COURSE there will be more water damage than fire damage when a sprinkler goes off!!. They seem to forget how much fire damage would occur had the sprinkler not been there. > Sprinklers cause unintended damage. Statistics from the Virginia Fire > Incident Reporting System show that 76.8 percent of all fires in > Virginia from 2000 through 2008 either did not spread or were confined > to an object or a room and contained. But when sprinklers detect smoke > they set off every sprinkler in the house, not just in the room where > the fire is occurring. In many homes that suffer a fire where working > sprinklers exist there is more water damage to the home than fire > damage. > > > > > > However, that does not offset the increased costs charged for > potential water damage and flooding. In most cases sprinklers go off > in areas of the home where fire is not occurring, causing more claims > for water damage than fire damage. Virginia insurance agents say this > drives the cost of insurance higher for people who have sprinkler systems. > 1- Show me truly "affordable" housing and then you may have an argument. > > > Sprinklers will harm efforts at providing affordable housing statewide. > According to an August 2006 survey of home builders done by the > National Association of Home Builders' Research Center, the average > sprinkler system costs $2.66 per square foot to install in a new home. > For the average home size considered to be affordable housing in > Virginia - 1,800 to 2,200 square feet - the maximum cost would be > approximately $5,850. In the Richmond area, about 710 families lose > the ability to qualify for a new home mortgage with each $1,000 > increase in the price of a new home. Mandating fire sprinklers would > keep more than 4,100 families from being able to buy affordable housing in the Richmond area. > _______________________________________________ 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) ************************************************************************ ************************** *** The contents of this email and any attachments *** are confidential and may be privileged. *** They are intended for the named recipient(s) only. *** If this message has been delivered to you in error, please reply to the *** sender to that effect, don't forward the message to anyone *** and delete the message from your computer. *** Thanks for your help, and sorry for the inconvenience. 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