Factors in Calculating Fire Sprinkler System Cost Since fire sprinklers and sprinkler system installation costs are largely determined by square footage, the size of the home will have a significant ...

Step 1: Shut off the irrigation water supply. Locate the shut-off valve, which is typically in a green box in your yard close to the water meter. Turn the valve so it's perpendicular to the pipe to ...

If you leave water sitting in your sprinkler system over winter, freezing temperatures will turn that water into ice, which ...

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The type of sprinkler system (except deluge) typically depends on the environmental conditions in which the system will be used and the nature of the space being protected. Wet-Pipe Sprinkler System ...

Pipes meant to protect condominiums during fires are causing damage when they burst in freezing temperatures. The Fayetteville Fire Department answered 25 calls related to burst pipes on Monday and ...

Amherst Fire Chief Tim Nelson and Mass State Fire Commissioner Stephen D. Coan inspected the fire sprinkler installed in a dorm at the University of Massachusetts in 2012. Sprinkler heads froze over ...

Attorneys for two Miami condominium associations filed a class action suit they expect will lead to damages exceeding $1 billion against the makers and distributors of an allegedly defective fire ...

A break in a sprinkler system pipe caused extensive water damage late Tuesday to the Moravian Museum at 66 W. Church St., Bethlehem. The incident was one of six calls involving broken water pipes ...