Sch10 is a standard weight. Dyna-flo, XL and the now not listed Sch5 are none 
standard. Maybe he just wanted to exclude the latter.

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to everyone who believes..." HCS Romans 1:16

On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Mark Sornsin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe the engineer just stuck the term 'standard weight' in there out of 
> habit; or because his master spec has that in there; or because he thinks 
> he's doing somebody a service by requiring it.... or possibly, he has a 
> legitimate reason. Sadly, the last option is normally NOT the most likely.
> 
> Sornsin
> Ulteig
> Fargo
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] 
> [[email protected]] on behalf of George Church 
> [[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: STANDARD WEIGHT RISER PIPE
> 
> There is no requirement in 13 for a riser to be Schedule 40.
> The EOR must be wanting to increase the robustness of the riser for some 
> other reason.
> Hopefully he doesn't require threaded joints or there may be some guys 
> looking for larger wrenches than they're used to using
> (and maybe some larger muscles than they have).
> 
> While some might quibble that "standard weight" could now be argued to be Sch 
> 10 for sprinkler mains and risers based on industry usage, I don't think 
> they'd win an argument with the EOR that when he said standard weight, he 
> meant Sch 40.
> 
> George L.  Church, Jr., CET
> Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc.
> PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842
> 877-324-ROWE       570-837-6335 fax
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 8:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: STANDARD WEIGHT RISER PIPE
> 
> In the spec it states; "Each vertical water supply riser shall be standard 
> weight pipe from grade floor level at entry of feed main into building up to 
> the highest horizontal cross main."
> 
> 
> What is that supposed to mean?  I've had more contractor confusion over that 
> statement and I've been trying to find if there's a requirement for the riser 
> to be Schedule 40 instead of allowing it to be Schedule 10 within the NFPA 13 
> Standard.  So far I haven't found anything that dictates pipe weight for a 
> riser.
> 
> Anyone have any insight to offer?
> 
> Craig L. Prahl, CET
> Fire Protection
> CH2MHILL
> Lockwood Greene
> 1500 International Drive
> Spartanburg, SC  29304-0491
> Direct - 864.599.4102
> Fax - 864.599.8439
> CH2MHILL Extension  74102
> [email protected]
> 
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