Keep up the good work, Greg! Not that many years ago, I was inspecting a building that was built eleven years previously. The person in charge of maintenance (who was also a licensed boiler operator) informed me this was the first time anyone checked the 2½” standpipe valves. Out of 9 total valves we had to replace 3, as I recall. Using a pipe wrench on the valve stem resulted in twisted brass. There was no way possible that a firefighter could have used these valves in a building fire.
Yours truly, Captain Rank J. Herrick From: Greg McGahan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: NFPA 25 - exercising hose valves I love these kinds of questions because we face these decisions constantly. We are competing against some very inadequate companies at times and the vast majority of our clients - no industrial and non governmental - are not interested in a better inspection. They are interested in checking a box on their list for their insurance company. We have been yelled at for opening inspector's test valves because the previous company (been around for 40 years) never did that before. We choose to sleep well because we strive to do the right thing and trust it will work out in the end. Greg Greg McGahan Living Water Fire Protection, LLC<http://www.livingwaterfp.com> 1160 McKenzie Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-937-1850<tel:(850)%20937-1850> fax 850-937-1852<tel:(850)%20937-1852> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Roland Huggins <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Sounds to me like an opportunity to discuss with your client what an inadequate job the prior inspectors were doing. Roland Huggins, PE - Senior VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org<http://www.firesprinkler.org/> Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives On Jan 11, 2017, at 6:51 AM, John Irwin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: These are the answers I was hoping to receive. Thank you everyone. John Irwin - CET _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
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