Yes, I'm wrestling with that beam in, say, a living room. It's an obstruction, it's kind of a compartment, it kind of compartmentalizes the room, but...? So if it's a lintel, defined as a "beam" over a door it doesn't compartmentalize one section from another if there's no wall to either side, but it does if there is wall, no matter how short? If there's a shower door does that count? What about that living room beam with two feet of wall on either end of a sixteen foot free span, with the architect calling one side living and the other dining? I think tis can be pretty shaky stuff for literalists.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Roland Huggins <[email protected]>wrote: > the same logic would say a beam in the middle of a room make it two > compartments. If you have a 8" obstruction on two sides of the shower but > no portion of either span is a wall, then it isn't a lintel. > > > Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering > American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives > Dallas, TX > http://www.firesprinkler.org > > > > > > On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:32 AM, "rongreenman ." <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > If there is at least eight inches on both sides I'd argue that it > separates > > compartments. If not it's something else. Since it defines an overhead > > separation between compartments it is a portal from one to the other and > > therefore a doorway. If someone wants to argue otherwise I'm open to > > persuasion. > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
