Monday, January 25, 2016

Dry System Inspection Issues


Don't have your dry pipe sprinkler systems inspected during the winter months. It's a pretty simple concept, yet your current sprinkler contractor may not tell you this. Have them inspected between April and October. 

Although there is no code saying that it is wrong to have these systems inspected during winter, there is a part of the code that says something along the lines of ~"if it's too cold to do a proper test/inspection, come back when it's not too cold." Yeah. That doesn't happen. 

So why not do a dry sprinkler system inspection in sub-freezing weather?

There are many reasons. For example:
-Every third year, you are required to do a "full flow trip test", meaning that you have to fill the entire system with water. And then drain it completely, before it freezes. 
Contractors aren't going to "take that chance"; and they shouldn't. It's just stupid to even consider doing this. 
- Low point drains are supposed to be drained/maintained during the annual inspection. These drains are also supposed to be drained periodically throughout the year (the frequency of draining these points varies from system to system). If you or your maintenance team is not performing the required maintenance (draining the low points), then they can and will fill with water and freeze. An inspector who has integrity, will  attempt to drain these, and take the required steps to get your system drained as best as possible, even when it is frozen solid. Sadly though, most  inspectors will just write it on their report, that they "could not drain".
- The pipe network is sub-freezing (filled with air at the same temperature), and it will have that air depleted (drained) during the inspection, then the sub-freezing pipes will be recharged with warm air from the air compressor. This will create condensation inside of the pipe, that will then freeze, and will quite possibly break, causing a whole lot of damage. 
- If there is an issue with resetting your dry pipe valve after it has been tested (maybe a gasket is torn, or the air compressor died, etc), the system has to be put "out of service" until it can be fixed, and you will be required to enlist a fire watch. If this happens during mild weather months, the system can be temporarily converted to a "wet system", and you will still have the benefits of an operational sprinkler system. 

They are the biggest reasons. There are others, but they aren't as exciting. 

There are other inspections that should be postponed, or adjusted, until they can be performed properly as well. Any system that drains to the outside, and can create an icy mess in a parking lot, sidewalk, entrance area, etc, should be pushed back (or forward) until the tests can be conducted properly. Fire pump tests should also be considered as a big ice headache. And it will be YOUR headache. Your inspection contractor has this covered by means of their inspection agreement, to limit their liability during the inspection. It's in the fine print. (Side note : 321 Fire Protection Co explains this, outright, in our agreement and in person, along with any other limitations, or exclusions that we have. We like to be upfront and transparent from the very start.)

This doesn't mean that, on a random warm day in January, it is okay to do these inspections. That's not going to be any better. You will still have the same condensation issues as listed above. 

As the building owner, or property manager, etc, it is your responsibility to know all of this. This is another thing that a lot of unscrupulous contractors will point out AFTER somethings happens. "It says it right in the code book. It is the owners or owners representatives responsibility." I've seen it in action before. It's a shame. 

321 Fire Protection Co will help guide you in your responsibilities, being that you hire us, because we are experts in our field. 

April through October. That's when you should schedule these inspections. That's it. Period.  

If you have a system that is scheduled between October and April, please consider changing the inspection time frame. This will help protect you in more ways than one. 

Feel free to call 321 Fire Protection Co if you have concerns regarding your current situation. 

Stay warm!

321FireProtection.com



Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Sprinkler vs No Sprinkler

Most fires are controlled by one to two fire sprinklers, that discharge anywhere from 15-75 gallons of water per minute (GPM) each. With an average discharge at approximately 50 GPM. (There are many variables involved, but take my word for it...50 GPM is a good average). Those numbers are for a commercial fire sprinkler system. In a house, or an apartment, that number may drop down to as low as 8 GPM per sprinkler.

Most of the time, the sprinklers actually extinguish the fire completely, before the fire department even arrives.

If you DON'T have a fire sprinkler system, when the fire department arrives, they WILL BE discharging AT THE VERY LEAST, 100 GPM from every fire hose that they are using. That's minimum. Per hose.

When you see water being sprayed from an elevated ladder truck, that will be discharging anywhere from 250-1,000 GPM of water onto the fire and building. And your building, and all of its contents, will be completely destroyed. Forever.


Lets go through two scenarios.

Scenario #1 - You Do Not Have a Fire Sprinkler System
1:00 am - Your entire family is sleeping.  A fire starts in your basement (BTW-worst place to have a fire).
1:02 am - The fire starts to grow, burning all of the plastic storage bins full of papers and clothes that you have surrounding your heater, where the fire started.
1:05 am - The smoke from the fire reaches the old battery operated smoke detector at the top of the basement stairs, but does not signal, because you took the battery out of it.
1:10 am - The fire is growing bigger, and has started to penetrate into the first floor, when smoke from the fire finally reaches a smoke detector that operates.

*** TEN MINUTES HAVE PASSED SINCE THE FIRE HAS STARTED ***

1:11 am - You get out of bed to see why the smoke detector is going off only to find your family room filling with smoke.
1:12 am - You run back upstairs and wake your spouse and children screaming that the house is on fire and you all need to get out.
1:13 am - You collect your family and run out the front door, leaving it wide open (which inadvertently provides a whole lot of draft and fresh oxygen to feed the fire).
1:14 am - You realize that you haven't called 911 yet, so you call them (thankfully you remembered your cell phone).
1:16 am - The 911 center starts to dispatch the first fire department.  Because of the alarm in your voice, they automatically send a "Full Response" for a working fire.
1:19 am - The first chief goes on radio responding from his house (Volunteer Fire Company).
1:20 am - You see flames inside your first floor windows.  The fire has been burning for 20 minutes.
1:25 am - The first fire engine goes on radio, as they are leaving the fire house.
1:26 am - The chief arrives on scene. He makes sure that everyone is out of the house. Then calls for a second alarm, because there are flames breaking through every window on the first floor, and there is now smoke puffing out of the second floor windows.
1:30 am - The fire engine arrives on scene.  You can hear many more sirens in the distance.
1:31 am - The chief declares that this is going to be a defensive operation, and that no firefighter is going inside the house, since all of the occupants are out.  The fire has had too much burn time.  The house will be a complete loss, no matter what the efforts are.
1:33 am - The first water is being put on your house. The fire is now coming out of every window that you can see. Your house, your pictures, your most precious belongings....gone.....forever.

Less than an hour ago, you were sleeping comfortably in your bed.  Your family safe and sound. Life was good.

Now, there are 35 firefighters in your front yard, back yard, in your driveway, on your street.  You count five streams of water being sprayed onto your house. Three are from hoses, two are from elevated ladders.

Lets do some math.  Each hose is flowing 100 gallons of water every minute, for a total of 300 GPM.  Each ladder is flowing 500 gallons of water per minute, for a total of 1,000 GPM. For a GRAND TOTAL of 1,300 gallons of water being dumped onto your fire engulfed house.  Every minute. This could go on for 30...45....60 minutes!! 30,000 to 70,000 gallons of water over that time period.  

Scenario #2 - You DO have a Fire Sprinkler System
1:00 am - Your entire family is sleeping.  A fire starts in your basement (BTW-still the worst place to have a fire).
1:02 am - The fire starts to grow, burning all of the plastic storage bins full of papers and clothes that you have surrounding your heater, where the fire started.
1:03 am - The sprinkler head that is in the vicinity of the origin of the fire, actuates.  Just one.  Not every sprinkler head (that's only in Hollywood)
1:04 am - The smoke from the fire reaches the old battery operated smoke detector at the top of the basement stairs, but does not signal, because you took the battery out of it.
1:04 am - Your fire alarm signals, because there is a device that actuates when water is flowing from one sprinkler (this is called a water flow alarm switch)
1:05 am - You wake up, and go downstairs to investigate why your sprinkler bell is going off. You open the door to the basement, and you see smoke (yes - there is still smoke- sprinklers aren't magic)
1:06 am - You run back upstairs and wake your spouse and children telling them that the sprinkler system is going off, and there is smoke in the basement.
1:07 am - You collect your family and run out the front door, leaving it wide open (which inadvertently provides a whole lot of draft and fresh oxygen to feed the fire, if the fire was still burning).
1:08 am - You realize that you haven't called 911 yet, so you call them (thankfully you remembered your cell phone).

*** ONLY EIGHT MINUTES HAVE PASSED SINCE THE FIRE HAS STARTED ***

The fire company gets dispatched, comes out, and they don't even need to fill their hoses with any water.  They bring a small, 2 1/2 gallon fire extinguisher with them into the basement.  But they don't need it, because the sprinkler system extinguished the fire.  The Chief and the first crew of firefighters already turned the sprinkler system off.  They turned it off at 1:20 am.  Twenty minutes after the fire had started.

Lets do some math.  One sprinkler head actuated.  It was discharging 10 gallons of water per minute.  It flowed water for twenty minutes.  20 minutes x 10 gallons per minute equals 200 gallons.  The sprinkler discharged 200 gallons of water from the time it first operated, until it was shut off by the fire department.

Scenario #1 - Your life is pretty much ruined.  For a long time anyway.
Scenario #2 - You are going to be inconvenienced for the night.  And you have some leg work to do...get the water and smoke removal experts in.  Get the sprinkler contractor out to fix the sprinkler head that saved your house, and possibly your life. Get through your insurance claim.  But you'll get through it.  Rather easily.

This is not hyperbole.  This is not an exaggeration by any means.  This is the truth.  100% true.

Don't wait until it's too late.

321FireProtection.com
(484)321-FIRE

Monday, January 11, 2016

The fire company is right next door. We have nothing to worry about.


People's perception of fire is not usually consistent with reality. 

What do I mean by that?

Simply put. People don't understand fire. 

Through the years, many times I have heard people say things along the lines of.... "The (volunteer) fire station is just down the street. If we have a fire, they will be here before the fire gets out of control."

Or

"We have employees here from 6 AM until 10 PM. If anything happens, they'll call the fire department right away!"

Or

"The building is all concrete and metal. There's nothing to burn!"

This blog post came to me today, as I was walking past a (soon to be developed) lot on the SW corner of 3rd & Market Streets in Philadelphia. There used to be a building there. It burned down two years ago, this coming April. 

My point?

There is a fire house less than two blocks away. And another one less than one mile away. Both staffed with full time fire fighting crews. The building burned down on a Wednesday; mid morning. When the building was occupied by employees, and the streets were full of passers by. 

Proximity to a firehouse (paid company or volunteer), time of day, and occupancy load have zero bearing on your home, or your place of employment, being safe from the devastation that a fire can bring. 

ZERO. 

So again, I say that people's perception of fire is not usually consistent with reality. 

Fires can burn quietly, sometimes for hours, before they are discovered. Fires can move lightening fast when conditions allow them to. Fire is a relentless beast. 

Once they start, the only way you are going to stop them is to put water on them. 

If this building at 300 Market Street had a fire sprinkler system, it would still be standing today. And the business that was there wouldn't have missed much of a beat. 

A fire sprinkler system is designed to control a fire during its incipient phase, it's beginning phase, before it can gain momentum. More often than not, the fire is not only controlled by the sprinkler system; it is suppressed....put out by the sprinkler system. Most fires only get hot enough to operate two fire sprinklers. Two sprinkler can control a fire that may otherwise turn into an inferno. 

When a fire starts, it's too late to "wish" you had fire sprinklers. 

321FireProtection.com

(484)321-FIRE

Saturday, January 9, 2016

And the job goes to...the lowest bidder?

"Low Bid". You're probably getting LESS THAN you are paying for. 
The machine operator and contractor involved in the 2013 building collapse in Philadelphia, were sentenced to prison yesterday. 
The building owner, who is probably guilty of looking for the lowest bid, is still being sued for his part. 
When you hire professionals, they should be up to par with doing professional work. 
Make sure that they are qualified.
Make sure they have training. 
Make sure they have OSHA training. 
Make sure they have experience. 
Get references. 
Due diligence goes a long way. 

Selecting a fire protection contractor is no different. Everyday, we see the aftermath of "low bid" while performing inspections, and service work. 

Unfortunately, nothing will be done about the unprofessional contractors out there UNTIL some people get killed. That's just the way it works. 

3 firefighters were killed and a $50MM building was torn down in Philadelphia following the aftermath of the Meridian Plaza fire in 1991. It took a catastrophe like this to have codes changed, and implemented. Almost 25 years later, and we are getting ready for history to repeat itself; with so many unqualified and untrained people installing, servicing, inspecting, and maintaining fire protection systems in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas. Nationwide actually. 

That next disaster may not be in Philadelphia. But it's going to happen somewhere. And only then, will the "authorities" start to come down on the unqualified....unprofessional contractors out there. 

You heard it here first. 

Not sure your contractor is up to par? Think maybe you picked the wrong guy? Maybe you went "lowest bidder" because he was 30% cheaper than the next closest.....btw...that's a huge red flag. 

Give us a call and we can help get you on the right path. 

321FireProtection.com

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Just trying to rip you off.

I walked into the fire pump room, in the basement of a 14 story high-rise apartment building.  I was with the property manager, a potential new client.  They were shopping around for a new fire protection contractor.


Before we even opened the door, I knew things weren't good.  There was a small stream of water coming from under the door to the pump room.  "Is that normal?", I asked.


"Yeah. The pump leaks a lot. It's okay."


When we passed through the door, I saw a fire pump that was only 7 years old, that looked like it hadn't been maintained in 25 years.  Does that even make sense?


There was water pouring out of the pump packing and the pump sleeve. The packing glands were cranked in WAY too tight and completely out of alignment, and water was still pouring right through.  The stuffing box drains were clogged, so the water was overflowing, and dripping down the side of the pump casing, causing a slimy, rusty trail to show the exact route of the water.


The entire pipe network in the fire pump room was completely wrong:

-Valves were in the wrong spot.

-Pump sensing lines were not installed in the correct part of the system.

-The test header assembly was in the wrong spot.

-The pressure relief valve was in the wrong spot.

-The pump controller was not where it should be.

-The diesel engine batteries were between the pump and the far, inside wall...making it nearly impossible to service and replace them.

-The pipe that attached directly to the suction side of the pump was arranged wrong.

-The oil filter hadn't been changed in 6 years.


And that was just at my first glance.  All I could say was "Wow. You have some serious issues here."


After explaining some of the things that I saw, the potential client was very happy that I had pointed these things out to him.  He told me that he thought there were some things wrong, but his previous contractors (plural) never told him any of this. They would come in once a year, and do their test & inspection, and he would see them the next year.  No questions asked.


I explained to him the importance of maintaining his fire pump.  A diesel fire pump is required to be run once every week, for 30 minutes.  The pump at this location only had 2.6 hours on the hour-meter.  Just over 2 1/2 hours in over seven years.  And that includes the original commissioning/startup.  That was probably 2/3 of the registered hours.  Do the math: this pump should have, at minimum, 182 hours, just with a weekly pump run. "Wow. You have some serious issues here."


I told him the truth.  Just by looking at the condition of the pump, we would have to pull it all apart to see what was going on inside of the pump.  And experience tells me that we are going to have to replace some of the parts inside of the pump.  Plus we will have a qualified diesel mechanic perform the proper maintenance on the Diesel engine; and a qualified fire pump control technician overhaul the fire pump controller (which also was never maintained, cleaned, or serviced).


The total bill would be anywhere from $5,000 to upwards of $25,000, depending on what we find.


We didn't get the job.  I was told that we were trying to rip them off.


In reality, we were just being honest.  Maintaining a diesel fire pump isn't cheap.  When you wait, and let things get out of hand, it's down right expensive.  If this potential client hadn't waited until it was too late, then these costs could have been spread out over the years.  If it is properly maintained from day one, then some of the issues could be avoided completely.


I wouldn't want to be an apartment dweller, thinking that I am protected by a fire sprinkler system, not knowing that the systems main piece of equipment might not work.


Pay me now or pay me later.  But paying later might come in the form of settling lawsuits.  


321FireProtection.com

Monday, January 4, 2016

What is an expert?

According to Merriam-Webster, an expert is someone "...having or showing special skill or knowledge because of what you have been taught or what you have experienced."

Great. 

According to social media, everyone is an expert....pick a subject-it doesn't matter....everyone is an expert. 

According to the real world, an expert is someone who knows more about a subject than you do. Yes. To you, someone that speaks with authority in a subject that you don't know too much about.....is an expert. 

That's ok if you're discussing flowering plants, or craft beers, or shoe polish. But NOT when the subject matter is fire protection. 

A true expert in the fire protection industry is highly trained, with tens of thousands of hours in the field. The true expert hasn't "seen it all" or "done it all".
The true expert is always learning; always training, always asking questions. Always bettering themselves. 

If you are hiring a fire protection contractor, they SHOULD be an expert. That's why you are paying them to do the job. You wouldn't want someone working on your system if they only had a few years of experience under their belt. 
Would you let someone with minimal experience put a new engine in your car? Or let them install a new brake system in your car? I'm guessing "no".
So don't let that same lack of experience into your world of fire protection.
Believe me. 

Don't be afraid to interview potential vendors. Ask them about their experience. Their training. Their continuing education. Their certifications. And verify with them that everyone that works for their company has these qualifications....not just the guy who holds the business license. 

Don't be afraid to ask these same questions to the technician who comes to work on your system. A true expert will be happy to answer all of your questions. 

When it comes to fire protection systems....you only get one chance to do it right.

321FireProtection.com


Sunday, January 3, 2016

3 1/2 minutes of life, death, and attempted suicide

Rob Feeney survived The Station Nightclub fire, in Warwick, RI in 2003. 
He is the newest blogger for The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA).

His inaugural blog gives details on his experiences that night. The link is at the end of this post. I encourage you to read it in full. 

3 1/2 minutes. That's how long it took him to get out of the nightclub after the fire was started.

In those 210 +/- seconds, he saw the fire start; saw there were no fire sprinklers; saw the fire extinguisher was missing; was turned away from the closest fire exit by an untrained & ignorant bouncer; experienced a fire flashing over top of him (called flashover- and is usually fatal); was knocked to the ground by a person on fire; kicked the burning person off of himself; was knocked in the head by metal scaffolding; became temporarily paralyzed; attempted to commit suicide by swallowing a breath of superheated, thick, black smoke; lost his fiancĂ© in the chaos; found that he had regained the use of his legs; crawled out the door. 

That's a lot of stuff going bad in a short amount of time. 

The point? You better be ready when things go wrong. Rob wasn't ready for all of this. But luckiky, he survived. 100 other people didn't. 

See his entire post here:
http://sprinkler.blog.nfpa.org/fire-incidents/

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Saturday, January 2, 2016

Fire extinguishers - Your first line of defense


Fire extinguishers. You have them. You get them inspected. At home, you have had that same one under your kitchen sink since you bought your home 18 years ago. Never had to use it though. 

But... What if you did. Would you know what to do? Have you ever thought about it? Other than the one under your sink; do you even know where the fire extinguishers, that may help get you out of a building alive, are located in your office...or your warehouse....or your store?

When you grab it off of the wall....will it work? What do you do now? "Holy cow, I never thought I would need to do this....what do I do???? What do I do???? Why isn't this thing working??? Wow that fire is getting so big.....and so hot!!!! Someone help!!!!"

That's not the time that you want to start thinking about what to do if there is a fire.

Fire extinguishers just might save your life one day. 

Make sure they are inspected. 

Make sure that they are accessible. 

Make sure you know where they are.

Make sure that you know how to use them. 

Whether at home, work, or play.....



Friday, January 1, 2016

Oh. You wanted us to inspect that too?

Imagine hiring a company to perform a fire sprinkler inspection. You call them and ask for a price. They give you a price over the phone; sight unseen (or any other information unseen).

Seems like a reasonable price. Definitely cheaper than the last company you had out. Your boss will be happy that you're saving a few bucks.

They come out to do the inspection. They are there for a whopping 35 minutes. The other guys were always a few hours. Weird.

All is good. Obviously. The inspection company did the inspection. 

Fire marshal comes out a few weeks later and slaps you with a "30 DAYS TO COMPLY" notice to get your dry system inspected. "But (insert cheap sprinkler company name here) just did our inspection?!?!"

The fire marshal didn't see any inspection tags on the dry system; you couldn't provide him with the dry system inspection paperwork either (because you didn't have any). So I guess it wasn't done. 

"30 DAYS. Or I'm shutting you down and fining you!"

What gives? You call the inspection company (that was cheaper; and your boss was happy about....for those few passing moments) and they tell you that "you didn't ask us to inspect the dry system specifically. If you would like, we can send a crew out within the next few weeks. There will be additional charges, of course.....that will be (3X what the first inspection cost). Would you like to schedule now? If you wait, we can't guarantee an inspection within 30 days....."

Seem ridiculous. Think I'm making this stuff up?

Nope. Not making it up. Yup. Ridiculous.

Some of the "leading fire protection companies in this nation"....blah, blah, blah.....do this. They inspect systems "reactively"....not "proactively". Some of these companies are YOUR fire protection contractor. 




So that little bit of cash you saved, and your boss already forgot about, is now coming back and kicking you in the rear end.  And your boss isn't going to forget about this.  Funny how that works. 

If this sounds familiar in any way. Or when dealing with your current fire protection contractor you just want to bash your head through a cinder block wall.....stop the nonsense. Give us a call. 

We are "fire protection built on integrity."

321FireProtection.com
 

Got corrosion?



Corrosion in fire sprinkler systems is a big problem. It is costing the end user a whole lot of money. And it is very misunderstood by many people. Especially that end user. And this misunderstanding is exactly what unscrupulous contractors love. 

What do I mean?  Look at the picture - and let me explain. 

I took this picture the other night while in a "big box store". This kind of thing DRIVES ME NUTS!!! They apparently had a leak at one point. I'll make the assumption that it was a "pin hole" leak somewhere in the bottom third of the pipe. Just a guess. So the big box store needed it fixed. 

It's a "dry system"....so the end user often gets sold on having galvanized pipe installed. "Because galvanized pipe won't corrode!"  Well. That's what the unscrupulous, or uneducated contractor tells them. (Unscrupulous or untrained - I wouldn't want either working on my life safety systems). They can/will then charge more money, because galvanized pipe is more expensive. A good way to help boost revenue and profits. But better yet....a GREAT way to increase the number of service calls in the (near) future.

What?

Yes. Galvanized pipe is not the answer. Sure, the galvanized coating protects the pipe from corroding on the outside surface. The aforementioned unscrupulous/untrained contractor will tell you that the code says that the pipe is required to be galvanized. Which is almost correct. What it says in fact, is that the pipe needs to have a coating that will protect it. Which would be better achieved by painting the pipe with a weather resistant paint. 

Ok. Still. What's the difference?

The difference is what happens INSIDE of the pipe. Look at the picture again. You will see other sections of pipe that were not replaced. These other sections of pipe are galvanized and also have a protective coating of paint (I know they are galvanized because I know this big box store's sprinkler pipe specifications-and they need to be revised). So if the galvanized pipe also had a protective coating applied, then how in the world could it corrode, right? 

It rots away from the inside. 

Here's the deal. Galvanized pipe is nothing more than regular (black) steel pipe, that has been coated with zinc by a process called "hot dipping".  They literally dip the pipe into molten zinc and coat the pipe, more or less. So if there are ANY imperfections on the inside of the pipe (and there are) then that "black" carbon steel will be exposed at the imperfection. Maybe not right away.  But believe me when I say...it will be exposed. 

When it is finally exposed....even if the exposed area is only as big as the head of a pin....that tiny area of exposed carbon steel will then be attacked by oxidation...better known as corrosion. And because every other area around that "pin head sized area" of exposed carbon steel is still protected by zinc....it ends up taking the brunt of the oxidation. Until the oxidation eats through the wall of the pipe, forming.....yes....a "pin" hole. 

The "painted" pipe in the picture is corroding on the inside as well. Believe me. Once corrosion has started....it just won't stop itself.  In fact, adjacent to the pipe in this picture, there were a few more sections of pipe that were (not so) "randomly" replaced. They were undoubtedly sections with exposed carbon steel inside. 

Corrosion is a huge problem. HUGE. 

The example above is only a very tiny glimpse into the reality of corrosion. 

And this is not just an "opinion" as many of the untrained/unscrupulous contractors might argue when confronted. There have been numerous independent studies conducted on this very topic. If you would like more information on the independent studies, go to our website and fill out the contact form, and just ask. We would be happy to forward you some reports.

One more thing....if you have a contractor that refers to "M.I.C." when they are talking to you about corrosion....or they tell you that your pipe has "M.I.C."....it's time to change contractors. Microbial Influenced Corrosion (M.I.C.) is a real thing. But it is only found in less than 10% of corrosion issues. Also, you can not just look at corrosion or sediment buildup, and say "it's MIC!!!"  A sample has to be tested, and confirmed in a lab. Which seemingly, almost nobody does. They just like to say "you have MIC". Because it sounds good. And they can get you to spend a lot of money that you don't need to spend. No kidding. 

Corrosion can be mitigated. Stopped in its tracks. It's not always an easy or inexpensive process. But neither is replacing your sprinkler system....one piece at a time. 

We have real solutions to your problems. We don't just have a bunch of band-aids that keep falling off. 
Get in touch with us if you think that you may have a corrosion issue in your fire sprinkler pipes. 

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