Quite a few in the North Carolina and Georgia area. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A.P.Silva Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: What is a Bucket Test?
This is the first time I've heard it being done for 13R. 13D, yes. But not 13R. Are there other jurisdictions requiring a bucket test for 13R? Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Harris Sent: April 9, 2008 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: What is a Bucket Test? A bucket test / barrel test is when you remove a head(s) in the remote area and fill up a bucket/barrel to see if it is flowing the gpm the is called for in the calc's. In our case with the density and heads we are using that would be 20 gpm, we are getting around 15 gpm. Brian Harris FDFP INC. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: What is a Bucket Test? Perhaps a dumb question, but what is a bucket test and is it conducted the same way in every jurisdiction? Bill Brooks William N. Brooks, P.E. Brooks Fire Protection Engineering Inc. 372 Wilett Drive Severna Park, MD 21146 410-544-3620 Phone 410-544-3032 FAX 412-400-6528 Cell -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Failed Bucket Test From: "Brian Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, April 07, 2008 2:30 pm To: <[email protected]> Fellow forum people: I have a situation where we have designed and installed a 13R system, it is completely finished and wham-o we fail the bucket test! Our system was designed based on the flow test provided by the city fire dept., turns out that a test taken now with the failed test shows a 25% drop in static & residual pressures, hence the failed test. Of course the owner is looking to us to pull a magic rabbit out of our #$% , err I mean hat, we have tried a few different things but with that big of a pressure loss there's really not much we can do. I don't feel it's our liability at this point since we went off the city's water flow test and per the calc's we were good, any thoughts? Regards, <http://www.firstdefensefire.com/> E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (5.5.0.178) Database version: 5.09560 http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ _______________________________________________ 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) E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (5.5.0.178) Database version: 5.09590 http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (5.5.0.178) Database version: 5.09590 http://www.pctools.com/spyware-doctor/ _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
