Re: Automatic fire sprinklers

[jamesgangnc <jamesgangnc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 10, 8:25=A0am, "Techvoid" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Dean Hoffman" <dh0496@in#&ebr^as^#ka.com> wrote in message
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> > =A0are now required in new Pennsylvania homes:
> >http://tinyurl.com/323syvr
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> good idea?

It's not as expensive as it used to be.  There is a cpvc pipe that can
be used for sprinklers.  I don't think it's actually different, I
think they just made it orange.  But I'm not sure.  I got 8 sprinkler
heads to put in the garage I'm building out at our lake house.  Picked
them up on ebay for about $5 apiece.  Idea came to me after some of
our friends almost burned down their house with a garage fire.
Happened while they were at home and they didn't know it until the
neighbor called them.  By then flames were rolling up the outside
wall.  $100k+ in damages and it barely got out of the garage into the
living space above before the fire dept put it out.

I think you could do a whole house for a couple hundred in materials.
Not sure how much additional plumber labor but I would think you could
keep it under a grand total.  My grandparents house in missisppi built
in the 1920's had sprinklers located in on the ceiling in front of
each fireplace hearth.  Since there was a fireplace in every room it
amounted to a whole house sprinkler system.