How's that going to work out with all the other junk attached to ceiling tiles like smoke detectors, motion detectors, mini cams? Don't these things need to be able to actually fall?
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Travis Mack <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone running into these things lately? How are you handling them? > > I have never really been a fan of these things. A customer has a job where > the builder is wanting to use these tiles to eliminate the need for > sprinklers at the ceiling. We did the shell space and there are 155 degree > uprights at the deck. This is 1st floor of a 4 story building. > > The tiles are rated at 165f. The sprinklers will have to be changed to > 200F so the sprinklers will activate after the tiles fall. > > What is your thoughts on these things? > > Travis Mack, SET > MFP Design, LLC > "Follow" us on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/pages/MFP-Design-LLC/92218417692 > Send large files to MFP Design via: > https://www.hightail.com/u/MFPDesign > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > 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) A problem well stated is a problem half solved. -Charles F. Kettering, inventor and engineer (1876-1958) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
