HPD/NYFD/Sprinklers/Plumber (continued…)


Has anyone out there successfully tested their sprinklers recently, using the new NY Fire Dept regulations/forms? I guess I’m looking for the name of a licensed plumber who has some experience with this…
My plumber says that he can only set this up when there is a violation; HPD today says that in order for them to remove the violation (for not posting a sprinkler-test in a public hallway in the year 2000, when the building was owned by someone else), I need to show proof that I have done the Fire-Dept sprinkler test…

Thanks….

Categories: Plumbers
By ffggg | 10/09/2007 11:59 AM | Comment

Sprinkler Test- HPD? FDNY? Plumber??


Does anyone know how/where to find the exact rules for sprinkler tests? We own a 4-family… We received a notice from HPD in April stating that as of May 1, 2007, HPD would no longer require sprinkler tests to be filed… Apparently it’s now an FDNY issue. Last week, I had an HPD inspector come to my building to grant “amnesty” on all the violations from the 1980s (long before we owned the building) and he gave me a “new” violation for not having a current sprinkler test hanging in the hallway. (This, despite the fact that I showed him the HPD letter stating that it was no longer an HPD issue.) I called FDNY and they said, ask your plumber. I called my plumber (who did the test in 2006) and he said, “we no longer do the tests.”
here is a link to the fdny form to which i was directed:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/rcny/rcny_form_100.pdf

Does ANYONE know the rules? Does anyone know a PLUMBER who can do the test…

Categories: Plumbers
By ffggg | 10/05/2007 10:34 AM | Comment