Dang architects...only one sprinkler for 8x12 area...if the fire get big
enough and the ceiling sprinklers can't handle it hopefully the one under
the slats would go off.

What else can you do?



On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Gregory Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have an office that has the grid ceiling at 10'-0", and we have a 8' x
> 12' area that has 1" x 6" boards as slats (The slats end up being 1x6's,
> 12' long), that are about 6" apart. The top of the slats are @ 8'-8" (1'-4"
> below the ceiling). This slatted area is in a 12' x 16' room.
>
>
> I believe that we obviously have to have a normal layout of sprinklers at
> the grid ceiling, but we would also have to have something below, because
> the slats would break up any pattern from the ceiling level heads.
>
>
> My 1st assumption would be a level of heads with the deflectors just below
> the slats, but how would they ever activate, with no way for the heat to
> collect down to them.
>
>
> This is one that I have never run into. ????
>
>
> Greg Lindholm
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