Thanks Scott. I was thinking of a typical apartment closet with just a washer dryer combo in it. You made some good points.
Tony (that's my 'Nickname) On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Scott A Futrell <[email protected]> wrote: > Tony, > > Sometimes people (especially older people) turn the heat up and it does > get above 100 in the closet. > > Sometimes furnaces don't operate properly and the high limit switch on > most furnaces is >100, even greater than 130, I've seen them as high as 175 > in furnaces in apartments that serve the corridor or common areas. > > I haven't seen an intermediate residential sprinkler operate in a furnace > closet when it shouldn't have. I have seen ordinary temperature rated > residential sprinklers operate in furnace closets when they shouldn't have. > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Palmero > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 8:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: RE: Re: > > Yo forum, > > So we put in standard temp sprinklers in utility rooms all the time. From > what my girlfriend says, we can put em in as long as the temp at the > ceiling doesn't go over something like 100 degrees. Now I don't know about > you, but I don't let it get above 100 in my house and the dryer is always > vented to the outside. She'd kill me if I let the dryer heat (and fuzz) > stay in the house. > > With that said, I can see where a guy would wanna use a 200-212 sprinkler > to be safe...... but i understand they cost just a touch more. I also > heard someplace that qwik response costs more than standard response. If > that's true then things start to come real clear to me..... > > See ya, > > Tony P > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
