Re: Automatic fire sprinklers

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 11, 8:44=A0pm, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 11, 9:35=A0pm, mleuck <m.le...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Jan 11, 1:38=A0pm, "Doug" <d...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > "zek" <ze...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > >All the new homes I see built are for the rich. Screw them.
> > > >Contractors
> > > >don't want to build cheap houses. They make more money on the big
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> > > >All the poorer people have to settle for used stuff. The people that
> > > >don't like national
> > > >health insurance, don't have many friends that need it.
> > > >greg
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> > > and your point is?
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> > > Doug
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> > I "think" his point is this
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> > Rich people buy nice houses and therefore are bad
> > Poor people don't buy nice houses which is also bad
> > Some people know many people who don't sign on to an socialist heath
> > care plan because they aren't sick
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> > I could be wrong
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> My biggest worry we put all these systems in homes which will probably
> not need them for 30-40 years and will they work when called on?
> But the real problem is existing housing what has been done to protect
> those who need it most.
> How many times in fatal fires no working smoke detectors and the same
> thing will happen with sprinklers
> the same people who need them the most will be the ones to turn them
> off and not maintain them.
> I wonder how many 100% sprinkled community's over the last 10 years I
> could walk into and find sprinklers turned off and smokes disabled.
> how many GFCI and Arc Faults will work???

I recall the early 90's when Texas enacted a number of strict fire
codes which resulted in a lot of homes that could have easily had
basic fire protection but didn't because of the extra cost involved.
Mandatory sprinkler systems sounds nice to a bureaucrat, they never
have to deal with the aftermath