We did a church several with exposed construction. We had the painter paint the pipe, fittings and hangers the same color as the ceiling. This was a sloped ceiling and there was no way to enlist sidewalls and run the pipe up the slope along the beam. We had to run horizontal branch lines between the beams to get the spacing right.
The Arch. Wasn't happy but fortunately understood code requirements outweighed his creative preference. When it was complete we were all surprised how well the system just blended into the background. Unless you really looked for it, the sprinkler system was virtually invisible to the casual glance. Craig L. Prahl, CET Fire Protection CH2MHILL Lockwood Greene 1500 International Drive Spartanburg, SC 29304-0491 Direct - 864.599.4102 Fax - 864.599.8439 CH2MHILL Extension 74102 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg McGahan Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 6:05 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: difficult one Impossible to seal off - it is open on the sides to a Lobby basically. He is a stickler for sure for what he wants the way he wants it. He wanted us to run the pipe on the roof within the tapered insulation... I said sure, but we would not warranty it. Its going to be a fight. On 12/2/2010 4:50 PM, Travis Mack, SET wrote: > I believe that even with a deluge system you have to install heads per the > listing. So you couldn't do his method anyway. > > Tell him to seal it all off and use FM200. That may cost a fortune but you > have to pay for what you want. > Travis Mack, SET > MFP Design, LLC > www.mfpdesign.com > > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg McGahan<[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:46:25 > To:<[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: difficult one > > The situations is this: > > Preface - I have already exhausted the "you can't because" in trying to > convince him to run two lines exposed in this space. > > Light Hazard > Corridor / Lobby with a center section Sloped, exposed construction 8 > in on 12in - 20' in width > On each side the ceiling drops about 4' to smooth flat ceilings > > The architect wants to find a way to eliminate exposed pipe. He prefers > to use sidewalls on the vertical 4' sides which I told him we could not do.. > His question is can he install detection at the peak, use sidewalls as > described above with a deluge valve. > > Does anyone have any other creative ideas for this situation? > > Thanks, > Greg > -- Greg C. McGahan Living Water Fire Protection, LLC. 1160 McKenzie Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-937-1850 Fax 850-937-1852 _______________________________________________ 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)
