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AFSA Technical Update
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A newsletter dealing with codes and other technical issues
August 22, 2014
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NFPA 13R Closets Without Doors
"The entry to a dorm room has closets on each side measuring 2 ft-10 1/2 in.
wide
and 3 ft-6 in. deep and provided with an 8 in. lintel. The closets meet meet
Sections
3.3.2 for the definition of a compartment and 6.6.3 for closets. Would
sprinklers
be required in the closet areas without doors?"
We have reviewed NFPA 13R, 2013 edition as the applicable standard. Our
informal
interpretation is that the area is still classified as a closet and sprinklers
can
be omitted.
Whether or not a door is required for occupied areas where sprinklers are
omitted
(closets or bathrooms) was not addressed until the 2007 editions of both NFPA 13
and 13R. The definition of a compartment was clarified to explicitly state
that
a lintel is not required when the opening is no wider than 36 inches. Since the
area is considered a separate compartment, it's still considered a closet.
This
still begs the question but does that really mean that one can omit sprinklers
without
a door for the compartment. We submitted a proposal to the 2010 edition (ROP
13-504)
of NFPA 13 to explicitly address this issue. It created A.8.15.8.1.1 that
states
a door is not required as long as the bathroom complies with the definition of a
compartment. Granted this does not say closets but the same philosophy drove
the
allowance for omitting sprinklers from both locations and the general
requirements
are the same (i.e. having specified dimension and restrictions on the materials
covering the walls). The same fire protection and life safety issues and
concerns
apply to both locations as to whether a door is required. If it isn't required
in one location, it isn't required for the other.
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Technical Update is prepared by the Technical Services Dept. of the AFSA: Vice
President
of Engineering and Technical Services Roland Huggins, a PE registered in fire
protection
engineering; Phill Brown, a NICET IV certified automatic sprinkler technician
and
NFPA Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS) and Tom Wellen, a PE registered
in fire protection engineering. This is provided with the understanding that
the
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