Utilizing the RFP System’s Alarm Contacts We are often asked about the availability of alarm contacts in our RFP systems as many fire protection contractors and home owners would like their system to provide a wide variety of alarms. Fortunately the engineering team behind the design of the RFP System had the forethought to provide… Read more …
Residential NFPA 13D Sprinkler System Pump Live Burn Test A few weeks ago Mike Faustina from the Centre Region Code Administration in Pennsylvania stopped by to give us a live burn demonstration of a residential fire sprinkler system using the NFPA 13D Econo RFP System that we donated to them. The traveling demonstration system, used… Read more …
Introducing the RFP Econo – NFPA 13D Residential Fire Protection Pumping System – Highest Quality at the Lowest Price General Air Products has expanded its residential product line! Along with our Basic and Complete residential pump systems we now offer the Econo RFP System for NFPA 13D applications (click here for a complete features list).… Read more …
There is another sizing misconception that we would like to shed light on today regarding NFPA 13D pumps. Many times, when designing and building a development or series of houses in the same area, a pump calculation from the first house will be used to size the pumps for all of the houses – the… Read more …
Don’t Get Stuck on Horsepower When Sizing a 13D Pump System! A typical call to our customer service staff regarding our 13D pumping systems starts like this, “I’m working on a 3,000 square foot house, what horsepower pump do I need for the sprinkler system?” This question assumes that square footage and horsepower are the… Read more …