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To: Jack Hammer

Accidental discharges would be a problem. When our daughter was single and living with us it seems the smoke alarm went off every time she cooked. I can imagine the damage if the sprinklers went off.


10 posted on 07/14/2016 3:40:35 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: R. Scott

An accidental sprinkler discharge is rare. Most sprinkler systems don’t activate through a detection process like a smoke alarm. Instead, they have a small glass filament inside it that melts and breaks when the temperature exceeds a certain (very high) threshold. In other words, the sprinkler only activates in a real fire — not just in a smoke condition.


16 posted on 07/14/2016 3:54:47 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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