We have a project, a four unit apartment / condo which consists of two double stacked units. On one side of each 1st floor units is a little 2'-8" deep balcony that sticks out between the 1st and 2nd floors creating a really small covered patio on the first floor. The builder doesn't want to install sprinklers under these on the 1st floor. 13R doesn't address decks or balconies that I can find. But IBC 2009 (current in effect in PA) 903.3.1.2.1 says I have to provide sprinkler protection for exterior balconies, decks and ground floor patios, and doesn't give a minimum size. Should I just tell the builder he has to have them? Or is there a way out of it that I'm not seeing (he claims he has never had to do it before). The current addition of NFPA 13 in effect in PA is 2007.
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