I feel certain that this is not what the code intends. In the case you describe we would consider it Ord. Hazard and calculate it as one room without omitting the heads. In virtually all of the cases like this we have seen, the owner has put chainlink over the tops of the closets and held the walls down to keep the deflectors 18" above them. Have a great weekend, Greg McGahan
Living Water Fire Protection, LLC 1160 McKenzie Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-937-1850 Fax: 850-937-1852 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Williams - FPDC Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Gaggle of closets I am looking an apartment building which is to be designed according to NFPA 13. On the first level, there is a room which contains 55 - 3'x5' tenant storage closets (mostly filled with shelves). These would need to be sprinklered, which is fine, but the issue comes in the hydraulics. Section 14.4.4.4.2 states that closets with a single sprinkler may be omitted from the calculation. There could be up to 47 closets in the remote area. I have used this exception numerous times, but never in this quantity. The standard says nothing to the contrary, so I could eliminate 47 sprinklers in the remote area because they are in closets? Is there something I am overlooking? Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
