I think Reliable makes or made a VELO Pen with a 14.5 K factor. Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 22, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Greg McGahan <g...@livingwaterfp.com> wrote: > We need to replace 3 painted heads in an existing storage room that currently > has 14.5 k heads. Going to the closest Equivalent head changes the K factor > to 14.0 and it makes enough of a difference that the calks no longer work…… > > Even if we replace all of the heads in that area with 14.0's it will not > work. Does anyone happen to have these laying around? > > Question - if we can't find them, what should we do? The calcs do not work > due to a combination of a slightly degraded water supply and being > incorrectly calculated by the original installing contractor - we have the > original drawings and they used a .15 density throughout the building instead > of the required .20. (yes- even when originally installed). The difference is > only a few pounds, but it goes from slightly positive to negative. The AHJ > has closed his ears and eyes and said "get the painted heads replaced". > > Thanks for your help. > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > Sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
