I just moved into an apartment with sprinklers. I've never lived in a building with them installed before.
2007-03-10 16:36:36 · 9 answers · asked by Hicktown girl66 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Residential fire sprinklers are a bit more sensitive than as described by Buddy. While overcooking and just making smoke will not set one off, the heat from an oven fire or pan fire could.
Also, don't fool around trying to see how hard it is to operate one. They are somewhat delicate, and EASILY set off with a match.
In addition to sprinklers using low melting point alloys as the sensitive element, many sprinklers are of the glass bulb type. The bulb contains a liquid. The liquid expands with heat, bursting the bulb to allow water to come out.
2007-03-10 17:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen a sprinkler with a wax plug. If that's something new, I've not heard of it. Every sprinkler head I've seen or installed used two metal plates soldered together. This solder would melt at a specified temperature, releasing the water flow. Each sprinkler works independently from all the others, so you cannot do like in the movies -set one off and have the whole building flood. -Just won't work. It's also almost impossible to set one off with a match. Sprinklers are designed to save the building, not to put out a stove-top or wastebasket fire. So it actually takes a lot of heat to start them. Burning something on the stove will probably set off the smoke alarm, but not the sprinklers.
2007-03-10 16:54:42 · answer #2 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sprinkler systems are heat sensitive. So cooking smoke will not set them off, only if the temperature gets hot enough will the valves open. They work differently than a smoke detector.
2007-03-10 16:43:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't confuse smoke detection with heat detection. Heat generated by cooking shouldn't set the sprinklers off.
2014-03-14 04:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by Sally 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not smoke that sets off sprinklers, it's heat. They have a wax plug in them. If it gets hot enough to melt the wax then the water can flow. The smoke will set off the smoke detectors though.
2007-03-10 16:40:34 · answer #5 · answered by Fordman 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Most sprinkler systems are set off by heat - however, it is possible for them to be wired into the smoke alarm system to - however unlikely.
2007-03-10 16:45:47 · answer #6 · answered by Jason E 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I got here domicile slightly inebriated years in the past to a caravan I owned at Sussex Inlet NSW. I had the munchies so i got here upon a huge Sister self saucing butterscotch pudding positioned it in a pan with water on the caravan gas range then went to sleep on the table. nicely the water run out and the can exploded. I woke up to a noisy bang there grew to become into butter scotch pudding caught to the roof and partitions everywhere. Then the countless pudding have been given onto the range inflicting smoke and the smoke alarm went off after the incident grew to become into already complete. think of i want a steam alarm too !
2016-09-30 12:27:01 · answer #7 · answered by bebber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1no the smoke will not set the sprinklers 2 it the heat that set them off you should pay attention on what your doing
2007-03-10 23:14:14 · answer #8 · answered by boobman 1959 aka cliff 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sprinklers are usually heat sensored, smoke wouldn't set them off
2007-03-10 16:44:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋