Originally Posted by
Scott Patterson
I'm seeing more and more residential fire sprinkler systems. One town near me requires them on all new construction. I think they it is a good idea to have them in new construction.
NFPA is recommending fire sprinkler systems on all dwelling units, no one is buying that yet for a code standard, but I think it may be coming down the pike in a few years - things like that take a number of years to wear the resistance down and overcome 'cost of $$$' and convert into 'cost of lives', for which there is NO equation between the two ... just 'greed' versus 'safety' ... 'greed' wins for a while, then, after enough fires kill enough people, 'safety' comes to the forefront.