Keep ugly sprinkler system?
Our house was once an SRO and has a sprinkler system throughout that looks about 50 years old. It’s pretty ugly but my boyfriend thinks it might also be pretty useful in a fire and that since we have it, we should keep it. I have a hard time picturing a beautifully restored house with…
Our house was once an SRO and has a sprinkler system throughout that looks about 50 years old. It’s pretty ugly but my boyfriend thinks it might also be pretty useful in a fire and that since we have it, we should keep it. I have a hard time picturing a beautifully restored house with these ugly pipes all around. Also, we don’t even know if it works! Does anyone have a similar tale, and if so, where did you start?
trade center had working sprinklers.
You can recess the pipes and the sprinkler heads. The “heads” are then hidden can covered with a white cap….it is a sleeker look for an ugy but safe system
Inspections are performed by licensed fire sprinkler companies
If your place isn’t required to have a sprinkler (1-2 family), but you have one, do you still need to have monthly inspections? Who inspects them and what does it cost?
If I ever did a new-build house or if I gutted and rebuilt the inside of a large old structure, I would add a sprinkler system. It doesn’t keep a house from burning down but it allows people to get out safely. I would be open to adding it to our brownstone now even though it’s only a 2-story one-family. Maybe one spray nozzle coming out of the wall directly over the stairwell, outside the bathroom where there already is plumbing. Something like that.
Keep it: inspect it: have it serviced: make it as appealing as possible.
In the history of the world there has never been a multiple fatality fire in a building with working sprinklers.
One option I’ve heard of is keeping it only in the stair/hallway.
Sprinklers must be inspected monthly at your cost under the new city regulations. Also sprinklers do not prevent your house from being damaged in a fire, they merely provide a safe path for people to exit.
town houses have a sprinkler system if they are 3-family or more and DO NOT have 2 means of egress (exit).
If your house is a legal 3-family or more, you mean need to keep it.
But please have it inspected and updated, it you decide to keep it.