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Morgans wrote: Have you ever considered home brewing a fire protectin system for your house? A pipe on the roof with holes drilled in it to keep the shingles wet. Directional irrigation sprinklers keeping the walls wet. Real sprinkler heads will do a much better job and are not all that expensive. For this type of system, you could use open heads. IIRC, each head typically covers 150'sq. A high volume irrigation pump, I'm thinking gas, so power outages will not be a problem. Pump out of the swimming pool. If you don't have a pool, now you have an excuse to get one! Two basic types of pumps are usually used for this sort of thing. A diaphram pump (such as a "mud puppy") will maintain constant pressure. A piston pump maintains constant volume. A properly sized piston pump would be best in an open system. I no longer remember the flow figures, but a swimming pool wouldn't last long enough to handle a situation such as the brush fires California suffers. I spent a year designing systems for Grinnell Fire Protection once. George Patterson I prefer Heaven for climate but Hell for company. |
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