Exactly. That's why you protect it if its intended use is storage. We're not the police.
A congregation just moved into their new church we sprinklered after 29 years in their "temporary" sanctuary. Nuff said? glc -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Todd Williams Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 8:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: 2010 handling and storage of combustibles If a pallet touches the ground, it's storage? Difficult to police in real life. At 08:26 AM 8/30/2010, you wrote: >"..not ever stored.." means they are NEVER placed there for any >reason ever. I have had the pleasure of playing semantics with >those who will say, "they are STAGED, not stored", when I ask for how >long, well that depends, might be a few hours, might be a few days. So >from a personal standpoint, staging, handling, storage are >all treated as storage. If there is any chance that any >combustible commodities will be placed within the area for any length >of time, it's a potential STORAGE area. > >Craig L. Prahl, CET >Fire Protection Specialist >Mechanical Department >CH2MHILL >Lockwood Greene >1500 International Drive >Spartanburg, SC 29304-0491 >Direct - 864.599.4102 >Fax - 864.599.8439 >[email protected] >http://www.ch2m.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg >McGahan >Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:46 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: 2010 handling and storage of combustibles > > Can someone please look in the 2010 handbook and tell me what the >intent of 8.15.7.1, 2 and 5 is? According to the way I read it - > >.1 states that all overhangs over 4' wide need protection UNLESS .2,.3 >or .4 are met. >.2 states that protection can be omitted if the overhang is over 4' >wide and made of Non-comb material >.5 states that protection is required if the overhang is OVER 2' wide >and combustible materials are STORED > >Therefore, if you have a noncombustible canopy that is over 4'-0" wide >where combustibles are loaded and unloaded but not stored then >protection is not required regardless of the size of the overhang? > >So now we could have a canopy that covers thousands of square feet and >yet materials are not ever "stored" under them and protection is not >required? > > >_______________________________________________ >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) >_______________________________________________ >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) Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860.535.2080 www.fpdc.com _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
