Re: Automatic fire sprinklers

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:23:30 -0800 (PST), jamesgangnc <jamesgangnc@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Jan 10, 8:25 am, "Techvoid" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> "Dean Hoffman" <dh0496@in#&ebr^as^#ka.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:igeu4d$b7k$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> >  are now required in new Pennsylvania homes:
>> >http://tinyurl.com/323syvr
>>
>> 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.

Sounds like just more pipes to burst, particularly in a second home.  More
nannyism for the government.