Re: Sprinkler system filled with antifreeze cause house to explode when activated

["Robert L Bass" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I asked about it.  No one seemed to understand.  We monitored then for several
years until someone else offered to do it for a dollar less or something like
that.  Oh, well.

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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"JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Robert L Bass wrote:
>> "petem" wrote:
>>>
>>> when one head is poped cause of over heat, a valve is release
>>> on an other pipe network that has open head and all over the
>>> place and water is pourred every where...
>>>
>>> we call that a deluge systeme here, and you dont want to trig
>>> those by error
>>
>> We have those in the States, too, but they're not all that common. One
>> warehouse where I worked on the alarm had a deluge system in it. I don't know
>> what they originally had there but my customer was a branch warehouse for a
>> national chain selling computers and office supplies.
>> You can only imagine the damages if someone triggered that.  :^)
>>
>
> Geeze - you would think that his insurance company would have required him to
> have that system changed.  Probably could have been done just by changing out
> the heads and main valve.  Wouldn't have been cheap but a real money saver in
> the event of a small localized fire somewhere in the warehouse.
>
> To warrant a deluge system around here it usually means some sort of flammable
> chemical storage or the like.  Something you really don't want to take any
> chances with.
>
> Though to watch TV & movies, ALL systems are deluge systems...