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Re: Automatic fire sprinklers



On 11/01/2011 5:11 PM, nick markowitz wrote:
> On Jan 11, 7:05 pm, "Stormin Mormon"
> <cayoung61**spambloc...@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> Can you believe this?  I think Even actually thinks Congress
>> has, or ought to have the power to force us all to buy
>> safety stuff? Must be public school student.
>>
>> --
>> Christopher A. Young
>> Learn more about Jesus
>>   www.lds.org
>> .
>>
>> "Evan"<evan.news.re...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote in message
>>
>> news:197f28be-6bdd-44ac-9d5e-7f65b8d9dcdf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Jan 11, 10:26 am, "Stormin Mormon"
>>
>> <cayoung61**spambloc...@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> I don't remember reading in the Constitution. Where it
>>> gives
>>> any level of government power to force us to buy safety
>>> equipment.
>>
>>> --
>>> Christopher A. Young
>>> Learn more about Jesus
>>> www.lds.org
>>
>> Perhaps you do not know how to read the Constitution nor how
>> to
>> interpret what is written there and how the Supreme Court of
>> the
>> United States has interpreted and clarified the document in
>> the
>> ensuing 223 years since it was written by the founding
>> fathers
>> and architects of our country...
>>
>> The fact that you can *buy* anything is at the discretion of
>> the US Congress which has the sole authority on the
>> regulation
>> of Commerce in the United States...
>>
>> Article I, § 8:
>>
>> -- "To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
>> several states, and with the Indian tribes;"
>>
>> (Commonly referred to as the "Commerce Clause")
>>
>> -- "To make rules for the government and regulation of the
>> land
>> and naval forces;"
>>
>> -- "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for
>> carrying
>> into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers
>> vested by
>> this Constitution in the government of the United States, or
>> in any
>> department or officer thereof."
>>
>> (Commonly referred to as the "Necessary and Proper Clause")
>>
>> So it is written there, just not in the terms which you seem
>> to
>> need it to be so that you can clearly understand it I
>> guess...
>>
>> Unless you are building a log cabin using only locally
>> available
>> materials (meaning you chopped down the logs yourself) you
>> are engaging in and benefiting from interstate commerce to
>> procure your supplies and materials which had to move across
>> state lines to arrive at the local store from which you
>> purchased
>> them...  THAT gives Congress the power to decide on how
>> those
>> materials should be sold and used...  Or to require any
>> safety
>> laws it feels are necessary...
>>
>> It is my opinion that in the next few coming generations of
>> the National Building Code that automatic fire sprinklers
>> will
>> soon be a nationwide requirement...
>>
>> ~~ Evan
>
> Tom
> You do not know it
> I am a Private Industry Fire Investigator. besides being a very good
> trouble shooter. and write regularly on the subject including Pa.
> Assoc of Arson investigators newsletters which I was just in and Pa
> Fireman's magazine and occasionally for Al at SSI to name a few
> and I have served as an Driver/Engineer in a volunteer fire dept.Penn
> Hills 4# and still help out Emsworth VFD as I can
> That means pump operator. I know all about moving water around.
> I also have an oil industry customer where I design high volume
> pumping/heating equipment for oil and water the pictures are on my
> Face Book wall
>
> I know what I am talking about.So do not try bull shiting me.
> Yes insurance company do raise rates it happened to my customer here
> in Pa when he put sprinklers in a million dollar home called
> Graceland  at Nemacolin Woodlands a very high end resort built by 84
> lumber magnate in fact many states had to pass laws to stop insurance
> company from jack up rates when sprinklers in homes where installed.
> Would you like his phone number.Plus a couple others.
> He also got disgusted and turned them off after they froze up 2
> different times and he too was a volunteer firefighter.
> I got news for you drum drips need emptied monthly would you care to
> come here to PA. and I will take you to my customers and see all the
> water that comes out of the pipes,at places I take care of. We have
> wild temp swings here
> it goes to 8 degrees at night and goes to 40 in day this constant up
> and down expansion puts water in the pipes regardless if there is air
> in them or not. Of course if you lived in a  cold climate like I do
> here you would know that.
> Would you like to see the reports from Cranberry Twp and Penn Hills
> Fire depts. for how many times they have responded to frozen drum
> drips that burst at my customers.Would you like the phone numbers of
> sprinkler company's  and AHJ in my area who will tell you the same
> thing.
> Your not playing with some amateur here.

Temperature swings aren't the only reason water forms in dry system
pipes.  Whenever you compress air, you're also going to produce moisture
which will precipitate into the system's low points over time.  In every
city across Canada, we have to "winterize" dry systems by draining the
low points or risk having them trip if the collection points freeze.

As for mandating sprinklers, there are several municipalities I work in
where you must install sprinkler systems in every new home.  Maple
Ridge, Vancouver, and Richmond to name a few.  I suppose our insurance
companies are a bit more "progressive" here.  If your home is equipped
with a sprinkler system, you actually qualify for a discount on
home-owners insurance.

I see it as a matter of education.  Typically systems that "freeze" are
either not maintained properly or have installation issues that relate
to their design.  These days, people with sprinkler systems (in
Vancouver at least) are required to submit back-flow preventer
inspection reports on an annual basis.  No reason why the guy doing the
testing shouldn't also check to make sure everything else is "up to snuff".

--
Frank Kurz
www.firetechs.net


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