The sprinkler heads in my condo frighten me. This highly scientific video has alleviated some of my fear. Thank you.

@armastus1474

2 ай бұрын

right! I've been terrified! So glad it's all good

Thank you for this, I feel better about the sprinklers in my condo!

Love the sprinkler videos man 👍

"Every day when I go to school I see people trying to cut sprinklers with a reciprocating saw." -Firealarmdude5967 2022 Makes perfect sense, I see it at school all the time.

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

Common occurrence here

@mikeschulte4271

Жыл бұрын

The kids in my school like to try to eat the sprinkler heads. Tear em off and eat em

@WindowLickingDeer

8 ай бұрын

​@@FireAlarmDude5967 Good old dry humor.

@Turkeyman16286

Ай бұрын

@@mikeschulte4271are they good?

I was cutting dry wall around a live head today at work and was being extra careful but this made me feel much better to do it again haha

LOL i love the commentary and the random items used 😂

There are people at my school that like to jump and touch the sprinklers, little do they know they could accidentally set it off. Covers cant stop that sadly

@tsg931

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but you couldn't break the glass with your finger. It would take something a lot heavier like a hammer.

@AgentOffice

Жыл бұрын

They should be in prison they're going to get worse as criminals

@Apollo55_

Жыл бұрын

@@AgentOffice That's a little extreme, you must live in a gated community 😂😂😂

@arnavplayz1165

Жыл бұрын

If the hang on it the sprinkler may get pulled down and have air tight and glass may break over air preassure

@KEFAalarmsandmore

10 ай бұрын

@@tsg931fun fact some glass rods can be thicker

When you knocked over the display I was dying laughing 🤣 great video

Great and humorous demo

Great video, I have been thinking about this for a while!

Hammer has joined the chat. Fire sprinkler has left the chat.

Its not so much the hazzard of setting them off, but hanging anything (colthes hangers WITH clothes attached, or even Xmas decorations) will severely affect there response time, and there spray pattern , once activated

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

The point of this video was to test how easy it would be to set these off

Great video

I came to this video because I want to clean the one in my apartment, but I'm afraid I'll set it off. I ended up staying to watch this guy take a batter, hammer, soccer ball, fire extinguisher, and a saw to a sprinkler. lmao. This is top notch quality, Mr. FireAlarmDude5967

Thanks for the demos!! My experience is that the typical fire-sprinkler-system discharges I've run into has been during a construction project by either a strike by a boom lift/scissors lift by another trade (painters, drywallers, electricians) or a forklift moving loaded pallets in a warehouse situation and gets too high. Also had a client with a high-bay warehouse that stored furniture for their large furniture store. The high-bay warehouse would then fill customer orders from the storage racks. However a firm with very poor welders had put together the rack system (5-rows high) from a 2-row system that had been purchased from another storage firm that had ceased operations. The Fire Department receives a fire alarm and sends trucks but when they get there the reason the system activated was that the rack system had collapsed due to the poor welding. Due to the furniture load every row of the 5 rows had its own sprinkler line. That was $400,000 of damage back in 1990 which would be $1 million or so in damage today. Other than that, as you correctly point, out these fire sprinkler heads are very durable except for heat. Only surprise here was the coat hanger as I've went into rooms of friends/colleagues at a business convention and told them not to use those sidewall heads as coat hangers. Have never seen those sidewall heads discharge but have heard about it second hand.

the aggression on the coat hanger😂

My school district replaced most sprinkler systems a few years ago. They are now flush mounted under white covers in the ceiling. The head pops down in the case of fire.

@TheRonKlimo

2 ай бұрын

This would be concealed heads, not flush mounted. The covers fall (melt) off at a temperature less that the heads activation temp. The heads diffuser drops down when the cover falls off.

That is an awesome video........I have worked in many industrial sites and have always wondered how tough these are. I am also surprised that there are not more cages. Great job!! DD

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

thanks! Appreciate the comment

Wow much more tough than I would’ve expected those cages seem to fail pretty easily I see them fall off all the time I know you don’t have the set up for testing that so it couldn’t happen but i am curious to see how much force it takes to break a threaded joint on sprinkler pipe I once saw in a crawlspace a 4 inch sprinkler pipe where the ready rod had failed so there was about a 50 foot section of 4 inch pipe not supported and it was under a gym floor so when the gym was being used this thing would start moving up and down by about a foot at the end Great video though

@maxdutiel

Жыл бұрын

I feel like this video is inspired either by Durability Testing, or the time you destroyed a school exit sign.

@An_Official_Scratcher

Жыл бұрын

Happy Valentines Day Nic! I'm sorry it's 3 days late, I've had school.

@nickolasottman4370

5 ай бұрын

i love your vids

2:00 scared the crap out of me 🤣

Our builder warned us about throwing balls near them. They got me paranoid AF. My son still practice throwing in the basement, and I get nervous on his high passes. This makes me feel a little better. I still think I'm going to put cages over them in the basement.

3:34 hey bro I think you dropped somthing 😂😂😂😂

Great video, I'm not as worried about my sprinklers going off now Cheers

Anybody who's lived in a college dorm has heard stories of people breaking a sprinkler head with something like a football and flooding their entire floor/every floor below them. Back in high school a guy accidentally broke one that was in the ceiling of the gym (about 30 feet in the air) after punting a basketball.

@jimmysullivan6054

11 ай бұрын

But how? 😳

Awesome.

Union Fitter here: it is still HIGHLY advised to be careful around them. Each head could be more fragile than the other so still avoid making contact with them. ALSO if you activate a sprinkler head you will not just flood the room it’s in. These are made to flow a LOT of water out of them and it will take an engineer or someone who runs the building a few minutes at least to get to a control valve of some sort to stop the flow of water to the head. You will flood not only your condo but the hall and more than likely the condos next to you. These systems usually sit over a hundred pounds of pressure so really high flow rate. Long story short: don’t touch them still lol

@psirvent8

4 ай бұрын

I wonder if the higher pressure in actual systems doesn't make the red vial actually more fragile than it was in the demo shown in this video. (Although I don't know what pressure it was but I guess it was lower than a commercial system).

@TheRonKlimo

2 ай бұрын

Residential systems are normally around (as low as 7 psi) to 30 psi. Commercial systems can be as high as 175 psi.

The hanger one is meant for wall mounded heads not ceiling mounted heads reason being is the weight of whatever you’re possibly hanging can break the glass and you can even see that in the photo you provided, the sprinkler head is mounted to the wall.

@FireAlarmDude5967

7 ай бұрын

Plenty of pendant sprinklers have those signs too

I'm scared to death to work around these in condos. This makes me feel a little better. I treat them like a live bomb when working around them

there was a student back in my high school days that set one off by getting his keys stuck and yanking on the lanyard. reportedly flooded that part of the school.

In my school in Aus some one hit an tennis balls with a tennis racket and it set off the fire sprinkler!

Just a random question. Could you compare buckeye and amerex fire extinguishers?

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

Fire extinguishers are expensive so perhaps one day but unfortunately not likely unless someone else sends them for testing purposes

@MJAPlumbingandHVAC

Жыл бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 i have a 2 pound buckeye ABC fire extinguisher that i have laying around aswell as an amerex b402. I could give them to you if necessary.

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

@@MJAPlumbingandHVAC that would be lovely but you can keep them. I actually have a video planned for this now

Essential answerrs

I have an idea for a future video, what happens if you put a pendent sprinkler on the wall?

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps

@thomaswhitten468

Жыл бұрын

Or even a sidewall sprinkler head on the ceiling

@06toyotatundraguy

11 ай бұрын

It would work the same way, but the spray pattern wouldn’t be as effective . Side and pendent sprinklers are designed to have a spray pattern that is ideal for their mounting position.

I've seen videos where teachers accidentally set off the sprinkler in a classroom, setting off the fire alarm as a result.

My washer is on the 2nd floor and vibrates my wall like crazy, I was worried the sprinklers will eventually blow up with all the shaking. After watching this crazy video, I guess I'm safe? 😀

Request: fire alarm going off at South Shore Plaza Braintree Massachusetts

What is the water PSI in the pipeline?

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

Not very high. Just enough for the purpose of demonstration

What is the best way to catch the water if a fire sprinkler goes off accidentally? Do they make anything for this?

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

No way unfortunately. A sprinkler discharges so much water that any bucket will be quickly overfilled.

@Georninja

3 ай бұрын

You can't contain all of the water but they do make sprinkler stoppers that can be wedged into the head in case they are activated.

1:43 using a fire extinguisher as a hammer

Nice sprinkler

It depends how it's hit the red glass had to break

3:33 😂

Sometimes the sprinklers are mounted on the wall. You jostled the coat hanger from that direction, but I feel like if you hung something on the glass bulb it would probably break.

@FireAlarmDude5967

11 ай бұрын

I mean I did hang something with the hanger holding onto the glass. Weight was on the glass anyways for the most part

I have a burning question (no pun intended) on sprinklers.. why have the dome under it.. wouldn’t take create a umbrella above the fire??? Seems counter intuitive

@tactiblox

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Its to mist the water

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

It sprays water everywhere including down. That’s why there are slits in the deflector

@AverageReviewsYT

Жыл бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 oh.. Iv never seen one in person jsut videos. ( yours tbh lol) and can’t see it

@tsg931

Жыл бұрын

It's to mist the water, dummy.

@AverageReviewsYT

Жыл бұрын

@@tsg931 we all know that dumbass. Wasn’t questioning that dipshit.

Not only your room is wet, you will get the whole hotel evacuated . It will set off the fire alarm.

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

Correct

Hi does cigarette smoke trigger these type of sprinkler in the bathroom?

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

No

@danapatilloytf2024

Жыл бұрын

@@FireAlarmDude5967 ok thanks

We were having Mexican officials visit our office in San Diego and one of my coworkers was moving a flag stand into the conference room by rolling the base at a slight angle. Only had a few inches to spare and he didn’t see the sprinkler head. Anyway, he hit it and it went off. (Don’t know if the metal eagle hit or what) The maintenance guy said it was discharging 100 gallons/minute. In no time we had several inches of water in the 1000 sq/ft conference room. Carpet ruined, drywall up a foot or so had to be cut out. Only silver lining is I HAD NOTHING to do with it. 😉

@ironmatic1

Жыл бұрын

Well, with a k8 head and a pump with a 200 psi churn in a high rise, and right off a cross main, that's not the most implausible number, but most likely a bit lower.

@TheRonKlimo

2 ай бұрын

100 GPM is a bit much for an office system. more like maybe up to 60 GPM max for that setting. A 100 GPM head is more for heavy hazard occupancies with large orifice heads.

The only way it will go off is if you hit the glass bit. Likewise if the room it is in is on fire once it reaches a certain temperature thats what triggers it.

@Solitifi

4 ай бұрын

Not fully true. If you make hard enough contact you can mess with the seat and it will start to leak. Not a lot of water BUT there is more than likely a hundred pounds of pressure behind the head so that’s a lot of faith to put in the glass to keep the head from going off.

I hit by accident with a towel and it flooded the whole apartment

#stopsprinklerabuse

You have to either be a drywaller or electrician with a piece of conduit or a lift to set it off… been hangin them bastards for 10 yrs… that’s the most common effective method.

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

Forklifts too

@dennisdownes9319

Жыл бұрын

I'm and electrician, and this has always been something I have wondered...conduit or not!! DD

@user-nt6pk4bn4p

Жыл бұрын

That's hilarious because my bosses are always giving me shit about even being careful near them

Just had a horror show at one of my shops last week, movers hit the sprinkler, my store flooded water went to both neighbors, I'm fuckd thank God I have insurance , movers don't.....

3:33 You knock the display over😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rip 🪦 fire sprinkler

I hate sprinklers they cauaed me so much ptsd I had to move out of my last apartment fire happen in apartment above me 3 floors above me n the sprinklers went off in that apartment plus the fireman spraying water from there hoses i got flooded out list everything i owned n i had nowhere to live for 2 months i had to couch surf wasnt fun they do more damage than they are worth having

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a fire issue and less of a sprinkler issue. The sprinkler system did its job. You either have fire damage or water damage, pick one

@TrickyChi

Жыл бұрын

@FireAlarmDude5967 yeah but the fire was 3 floors above me n water from sprinklers and firemen damaged mine n 2 other apartments that was below the apartment with the fire

@dang48

5 ай бұрын

That's the joy of gravity. Water will flow downwards and your unit was below the fire zone. Nothing can be done about that. As mentioned, either fire damage or water damage. If the firefighters were not using water, the fire would spread. How else are they expected to put out the fire?

Don't try this at school kids

Can smoke set it off

@FireAlarmDude5967

Жыл бұрын

No

That is inox 304

@Honekawasuneo646

Ай бұрын

Maybe copper

Hey I know this is a late reply but do you want me to send you a fake Canadian sprinkler

@FireAlarmDude5967

Ай бұрын

I’ll take a fake Canadian sprinkler for testing. How would I get it?

If they acccidently set it off, they will have to worry about the fire alarm activation later.

@FireAlarmDude5967

8 ай бұрын

Correct, sprinkler systems will generally cause fire alarms to activate

Geez the one thing China is making solid, will those even pop in a fire 🤔😂

@FireAlarmDude5967

3 ай бұрын

Not made in China. How on earth did you get to that conclusion?

Hi crap

@FireAlarmDude5967

5 ай бұрын

What’s up 😂