I have a 72,000 sq. ft. 44'-0 high warehouse that is going to be used for 34'-0 open shelf rack storage auto parts. Storage consist of engines, transmissions, axles, radiators, steel & aluminum wheels, metal doors, hoods, windows, tail and head lights in cardboard boxes, and plastic front and back bumpers. My concern is the bumpers. They are wrapped individually with shrink-wrap to protect them. They will be stored on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd level of the racks to maximum of 16'-0 high and limited to about a 10% area of the building. The other 16'-0 to 18'-0 of storage will be the metal and/or boxed auto parts. All products are new.
I would like to use the K25.2 ESFR fire sprinkler at 40 psi to protect the warehouse to eliminate the rack sprinklers. Owner is dead set against rack sprinklers. The K25 will protect all the commodities except the bumpers. With the bumpers being limited to 16'-0 high and 10% of the building area, are they a concern? If so, what would be the best way to protect that area? The owner could limit the bumper storage to 8' or 12' and increase his area of racks for their storage. The problem is the K25 is not listed to protect uncartoned unexpanded plastics in a building higher than 40'-0, which the whole buildings is. So that is the problem, how do you deal with the bumpers? Gregg Fontes Cen-Cal Fire Systems, Inc. 209-334-9119 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
