Can you imagine? I did three pumps today and a standpipe test. At all three I asked the PE's about this and what they thought, they all shook their heads. #1 and #2 were with FMG field engineers and they just shook their heads. We're still 2008 in MA so I've got one edition before 2014 kicks in that'll probably not happen for 10 years. FM #2 was going to send me their recommendations for annual TS testing (and also that coupling and driveshaft draft that's been in the making for a year or 2). TD
This may be a great time to remind those in the testing business to clearly denote the scope of work in your contracts. Simply billing your client for "Annual fire system test per code" may be exposing you to scope items you had no idea existed...like 30 min. testing of the fire pump at 150% load under alternate power. Mark A. Sornsin, P.E. | Karges-Faulconbridge, Inc. | Fire Protection Engineer | Fargo, ND | direct: 701.552.9905 | mobile: 701.371.5759 | http://www.kfiengineers.com Uhhhh ... given that enforcement of 25 in general is almost nil, I would imagine that's a safe assumption. Steve Leyton _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
