Re: Customers with dry pipe sprinklers need to take prec.

["Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Feb 25, 8:02=EF=BF=BDpm, secure15 <secur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Nick!
> What is so special about THIS year?
> Same as you. THREE Times to Greenport LI, in last two weeks for exactly
> the same problem! Water left in inspectors test pipe froze and broke 3
> times! One service call made at 9:45 left me getting back home at 12!
> Of course, unoccupied restaurant, closed for winter- no one there to
> get a low air-
> and of course- hot water boiler heat thru 13 A/c coils in building-Fire
> Alarm Signal=3D Fan shutdown=3D No heat! All the way out to bypass the FS
> relays so the REST of it didn't freeze solid!
> Same ghost on the Long Island Railroad- been operating for the last 50
> years then all of the sudden 6 people are falling thru the space between
> the platform and the cars! How come only now THIS year?
>
>
>
> Nick Markowitz Jr. wrote:
> > Hi all with temps this past couple =A0weeks going 8 below zero in my ar=
ea =A0for
> > first time in nearly a decade 2 of my customers had major problems with
> > there dry pipe sprinkler systems because a drain =A0moisture accumulato=
r which
> > is on the end of the dry pipe systems was not being properly checked and
> > drained and moisture accumulated in the drain and froze breaking the pi=
pe
> > and sending water thruout the system and flooding my clients property.
> > becuse the accumulators were in an unheated part of building. normally =
we
> > never have to worry about dry pipe systems just where the water sits at=
 the
> > main valve but the extreme temps have proved otherwise.
> > do your customers a favor and let them know they need to make sure this
> > accumulator valve needs serviced when system is inspected.- Hide quoted=
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Probably due to global warming.

Check with Al Gore.