The Rainbird 1800 pros and cons

A Rainbird 1800 must meet code, but aside from the large factories, warehouses and office buildings that legally must use sprinkler systems some people are now putting smaller systems in their homes and small stores. These systems are connected with overhead piping into each Rainbird 1800 head that will act as the fire suppressor. These smaller systems are reasonably priced and gaining in popularity. People are trying to protect themselves and their families from things going wrong more than ever before.

In fire suppression system the individual Rainbird 1800 head does not act as part of the system but reacts as an independent device going off only if the heat level it is set for is exceeded. This is done so that only the sprinkler head that is in a fire area goes off instead of the whole system, the bigger the fire the more of them that will go off. If the whole system were to go off without cause then it could do extensive water damage unnecessarily.

Pipes for a Rainbird 1800

The water is always sitting in the pipes waiting for the time when the Rainbird 1800 head senses a fire and only then is it released. There are no controls necessary to make this happen. No buttons to push or switches to flip. This is all in the monitoring system.

There are many types of fire suppression systems. Many of them have built in extras such as a fire alarm that not only lets those in the building know that something is going on but that can be hooked directly to the appropriate fire station closest to you. Interestingly a sprinkler head system that goes off and tries to put out your fire will do far less damage to your warehouse, store or factory than the fireman’s hose with their high-pressured water flow. A Rainbird 1800 head that is sending water out is doing so at fourteen gallons per minute while a fire hose is drenching the fire at two hundred and fifty gallons per minute. That is certainly a big difference.

There are no records of a fire, which had a good Rainbird 1800 system installed, having caused the deaths of more than two people when the system was properly installed to cover the whole area. The only exception was when an explosion had caused the fire.