Ce'sar, I looked up the referenced section in the 02 handbook and it says large roof/ceiling slopes over 16.7 perecnt slope are outside the scope of this chapter. (Chapter 12 Storage) one of the GREAT minds that are usually found on this site will perhaps have advice on this, but you might have to wait until tuesday, check with the FM global web site or post a new thread on the www.eng-tips.com forum under the NFPA 13 codes section.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:38 AM, César Villavicencio < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Forum Members, > > > NFPA 13 1999 chapter 7-3.1.3. says that sprinkler system criteria is > intended to apply to buildings with ceiling slopes not exceeding 16.7 > percent. > > What if we have warehouses with slopes of 18%, what should I do? Should I > ask a false ceiling to the client? It is a lot of area, the client will not > be happy with this. > > Warehouses Class IV Commodities > > Could I make any adjustment in order to avoid the construction of false > ceiling? > > Please advise. > > Thanks so much. > > > > César Villavicencio > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] > > To Unsubscribe, send an email > to:[email protected]<to%[email protected]> > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Tom Poisal, CET _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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)
