If there is at least eight inches on both sides I'd argue that it separates compartments. If not it's something else. Since it defines an overhead separation between compartments it is a portal from one to the other and therefore a doorway. If someone wants to argue otherwise I'm open to persuasion.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Roland Huggins <[email protected]>wrote: > I would not attempt to argue the lintel / compartment issue since a lintel > by definition is the wall section over a doorway (but yes it must have a > height difference on both sides otherwise only one compartment has a > lintel). Whether or not you include the shower area depends on the > applicable edition of 13 (since the whole bath room thing has been in a > state of flux). > > > Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering > American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives > Dallas, TX > http://www.firesprinkler.org > > > > > > On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Todd - Work <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ron, > > > > If the ceiling in the shower is at the same elevation as the "lintel", > is it in fact a lintel or a soffit? If it is a soffit, then I would say > that it is part of the same compartment. I would think to be considered a > lintel, the ceiling heights on both sides would have to be higher than the > bottom of the supposed lintel. > > > > Todd G Williams, PE > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
