Dude, you posted at 11:30 on Saturday night. No wonder your electrons are waining. Even I've stopped. If it wasn't for spell check, this post would be incomprehensible.
I know I owe you an email. I'll get to it next week. T Sent from my iPhone On Oct 30, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Sprinkler Academy - C Bilbo <[email protected]> wrote: > > And Carrol, to further thank my friends for watching my back, I'd like to > make sure that you were NOT asking about the "room design method" (11.2.3.3) > but that you ARE asking about the "Special Design Approach" known as > "Residential Sprinklers" in NFPA 13 (11.3.1). > > You did ask specifically about the room design method in the subject of your > question! However, I am only referring to the residential method (because you > are using residential sprinklers). > > Please, I beg you.... I do not have many electrons left! (As my good friend > Ron Greenman so kindly points out....) I must know, was my post appropriate > for your situation or have you really been asking about the "room design > method" (also known as the largest room rule) all along??? > > Still, even if you were talking about the "Room Design Method" (wherein you > should be using QR sprinklers in the largest room of your building and not > residential sprinklers)...... you could use the "small room rule" square > footage allowance (room area divided by the number of sprinklers) to > determine the "design area" for the purposes of calculating minimum flow > required from a sprinkler. > > Help.... need electrons..... > > Anxiously, > > Cecil Bilbo > > > > >> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:59:50 -0700 >> Subject: Re: Residential "Room Design Method"? >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> And because I'm so in to "proper" language (see my rant yesterday >> about design area) and because cecil and I watch each other's back I'm >> going to mention that everyone keeps saying "small room" when they're >> talking about "room design method." Small room refers to the s"small >> room rule" which is a completely different thing. I've noticed after >> playing on this Forum for years that we all, at one time or another, >> spend lots of electrons answering questions that weren't asked because >> the question was confusing. >> >> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Sprinkler Academy - C Bilbo >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Carrol, >>> >>> Hopefully, you caught Ron's reference to 11.3.1.2 and not solely the >>> requirement for a 20x20 spacing. Specifically, take a look at Ron's >>> inferred reference to 11.3.1.2 item number 2: >>> >>> _______________________________________________ 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)
