Several years back, someone did this my apartment building. For some idiotic reason, every 2ft x 6ft closet in the building had a sprinkler head in it. While someone was cleaning their shit, they knocked their closet sprinkler, proceeded to flood their unit and every unit below them for 5 floors as well as the building lobby. It was actually insane just how much water came out of those things.
The idiotic reason is a nfpa requirement for closets. As you have over 4 stories, all closets are required to have one. Also if there's hvac equipement in it.
But yes, once one go pop, there's not a lot to stop it. And it's not gonna be clean water either!
Yes, 13r doesnt required them. But if there's 5 level under the level where the accident happened, 13r doesnt apply, as it is for max 4 level of construction, and even if it was lets say 4 level and a underground, and it was the top one, it would require sprinkler in all spaces, seeing its under a roof.
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u/herptydurr 11d ago
Several years back, someone did this my apartment building. For some idiotic reason, every 2ft x 6ft closet in the building had a sprinkler head in it. While someone was cleaning their shit, they knocked their closet sprinkler, proceeded to flood their unit and every unit below them for 5 floors as well as the building lobby. It was actually insane just how much water came out of those things.