Re: Automatic fire sprinklers

["Ed Pawlowski" <esp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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"Evan" <evan.news.reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

>
> Ok...  First off Bob, we are all talking about an additional
> system on a home which will cost all of maybe $10,000
> maximum on an average sized home...  If you can not
> afford that cost on a home which will preserve lives and
> the home itself in the future and would rather be spending
> it on a fancier bathroom or kitchen, then you really should
> be living in a high rise tower with small brick lined rooms
> and an elevator ride of two minutes up and down...
>
> It is NOT an immediate out of pocket expense to most
> people as they have a mortgage to build the house in
> the first place...

Right, it is not an immediate out of pocket expense, it is a finance payment
that will be huge over time.   On a 30 year mortgage at 4%, that is $47.47
for 360 months or $17,186.  Adding that much to the cost of a home can be
devastating to the small house market for lower incomes.


>
> Second, fighting a fire costs a LOT more than the $10,000
> a residential fire suppression system would cost...  Think
> of a small town which has four fire apparatus...  For a big
> enough fire they would all be at that one house dealing with
> it...  That is an awful lot of water being pumped and diesel
> fuel to power the pumps...

Multiply $10000 times the number of houses in the town.  Is that not greater
than the cost of fighting a few fires every year?  While you may be able to
justify the cost over one house, you cannot over an entire town.



> So why shouldn't the government place a tiny portion of
> the burden of the costs of such work on the owner of the
> home by requiring automatic fire sprinklers be installed in
> homes...

Because it is not a tiny cost and putting sprinklers in every house would
not eliminate the fire department.  They still need that equipment and
people to operate it.   Put some real numbers together and lets talk. Right
now you are blowing silly scenarios out your ass with no facts to back it
up.


The fact that it will cost LESS to finish putting
> out any fires which have spread to the attics or roofs of
> fire sprinkler equipped homes and overhaul them AND that
> such systems will SAVE LIVES isn't enough for you,
> you feel that there should be no requirements at all...

Let's see the numbers.
I have doubts, but I'm sure you can remove them.