Re: Automatic fire sprinklers

["Ed Pawlowski" <esp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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"nick markowitz" <nmarkowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
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> The smoking in bed is one scenario where a sprinkler would not save
> your life due to smoke inhalation.

Once it became a blaze though, it could save others if the smoke has not
already gotten to them.
Smoke detectors are far more important than sprinklers to warn people.


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> Why is there no single sprinkler head easy install kit for existing
> homes where they could be easily attached to an existing water source
> in a basement area where pipes are usual very accessible and where
> many fires start.
> and could well serve to suppress a fire. At one time a saw a small
> garden hose kit with single head you attached to back of washer and
> then hanged on ceiling.

Some 20  years ago I saw a water valve that replaced the one on the feed
line to your boiler.  In the case of a fire from the boiler, it would
activate as a sprinkler.  The idea was that many fires start at residential
heaters so this would take care of one common source.   I never saw it in
production though.