Question: I surveyed a sprinkler system today, installed 2001.
Wet System; Steel Pipe; SSP heads
About half the deflectors have a oily substance on them. The occupant
wiped the deflectors clean 2 years ago, but they are oily again.
I assume this is pipe joint compound or cutting oil leaking through the
fittings.
Am I correct in this assumption?
What causes this?
Forest Wilson
Cherokee Fire
On 9/10/2010 3:42 PM, Ed Kramer wrote:
I've heard that the intent of 903.3.1.2.1 is to protect the structure from
fires that start on the patio/deck/balcony, and in particular from fires
that are started by cooking equipment (BBQ/grills). Assuming that's the
case, your balcony shouldn't be required to be protected. I'll be up to you
to get the AHJ's blessing to delete the sprinkler protection, but I think
you'd have a very good argument.
Ed Kramer
Littleton, CO
I have a question about an R2 occupancy I'm working on. This relates to
903.3.1.2.1 in the 2009 IBC. This living facility has what I would
consider
fake patios on some of the rooms. They are shallow, only about 3' wide,
and
they are not normally useable. What I mean by that is there are
railings at
the outside edge with no openings, and there are no doors accessing them
from the dwelling unit. So to get onto this thing, you would have to
hop
the railing or crawl through a normal size window. I couldn't find a
definition in the IBC for whether a patio/deck /balcony is only
considered
that if its accessible or not.
This building is definitely type V construction, so this would apply,
but
does the IBC make any differentiation in terms of the balcony being
accessible, or just being an architectural feature. Has anyone
encountered
this before?
The other slight issue is that technically the code being enforced still
references the 2006 IBC, but I only have a 2009 copy. I can't hope that
this was new, can I?
I actually have a rendered image of what I'm talking about if that
helps.
http://www.bseg-ce.com/port_hopewell.html
Look at the two first floor cut-ins on either side of the person in that
rendering to see what I'm talking about.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Benjamin Young, CET
Sobieski Fire Protection
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