We are renovating our 900sf garden level apartment which is in a 4-unit co-op building. The building was an SRO prior to becoming a co-op in the 80’s. Our apartment has two means of egress, through the front door (under stoop) and out the back into the garden. There is no common stairwell on our floor (unoccupied cellar below us is only accessible via outside hatch). <\/p>\n
The apartment has two sprinkler heads in the entry area from when (I assume) there used to be a common stairwell on our floor. The sprinklers are no longer required technically since we have two means of egress and no common stair, right? We’re certainly not going to get rid of them, but do we need to follow code with them (i.e. distance from walls, etc)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are renovating our 900sf garden level apartment which is in a 4-unit co-op building. The building was an SRO prior to becoming a co-op in the 80’s. Our apartment has two means of egress, through the front door (under stoop) and out the back into the garden. There is no common stairwell on our…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-55233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/old-sprinklers\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"old sprinklers on garden floor – necessary?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/old-sprinklers\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/old-sprinklers\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"daintydu"}],"creator":["daintydu"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-04-14T15:37:10Z","datePublished":"2011-04-14T15:37:10Z","dateModified":"2011-04-14T16:09:13Z"},"rendered":"