Gentlemen, Would you please help me? I have the basement in students dorm serving as a storage room approximate 2000 sqft. Around all storage room, along walls, there are storage racks with the solid wood shelves (storage racks are about 680 sqft). The storage contains beddings: sheets, pillows and comforters in the small plastic bags. Room is 9 ft height; first level of rack is 2 ft above floor and second level 5 ft above floor. Commodities are stored to the ceiling of the room.
Please correct me if my approach is not correct: 1. Storage classified as miscellaneous storage 2. Commodities classification: Class IV 3. Storage to be lower min. 18 inch from the sprinklers. 3. Design criteria for ceiling sprinklers based on 12.1.10 (NFPA 13 2002): 1500sqft/0.20 gpm/sqft 4. Since we have solid shelving do we need have in rack sprinklers and need to apply section 12.3.1.9.2 Where solid shelving in single-, double-, and multiple-row racks exceeds 64 sqft in are or where the level of storage exceed 6 ft, sprinklers shall be installed at the ceiling and below each level of shelving? It is not really clear to me that this requirement applies to miscellaneous storage also. I would really appreciate you help. Thank you, Anna Reich _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
