Re: NFPA Code Question

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here in MI they inspect our residential fire.

Even if we are not primary we still have to pull a permit.

Crash Gordon wrote:
> You guys inspect residential fire? The only residential fire stuff that gets
> inspected here are firesprinklers.
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> "Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Attics are notoriously hot here.  This house is a three story home in West
> | University Place, a real upper class, yuppie neighborhood.  Its new
> | construction, you can stand in the attic w/ no problem and the undlayment
> | for the roof is a material called "Cool Ply".  The attics in homes with
> the
> | Cool Ply do not really get too hot.  The panel is at the head of the attic
> | stairway so you don't have to actually go into the attic to access it,
> just
> | stand on the stairs.
> |
> | I don't think it is a code violation.  I would not normally install a
> panel
> | in an unfinished attic such as this, but other than a diminished battery
> | life, I don't see any real problem.
> |
> | "alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | > "Allan Waghalter" <awaghalter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | >> Thanks Nick,
> | >> It is a residential home alarm (Networx 6) with smoke detectors wired
> in.
> | >> No need to access the panel.  The keypads are the remotes.  I know that
> I
> | >> would not have tagged for this.
> | >> Allan
> | >
> | > What kind of attic are we talking about here? Is it insulated, finished,
> | > heated, etc? Can you stand up in there? Or is it like the ones we have
> | > with
> | > a 4 in 12 max pitch where the poor service tech has to crawl up there in
> | > 150
> | > degree heat to service the panel? How do your batteries and circuit
> boards
> | > hold up?
> | > js
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