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is delivered to the pipes. Day-to-day, there is no water in the pipes over
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> I'm with John on this; it's not so much the sprinklers in your imaging room
> so much as the odds of a flood coming in from the floors above.
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> > Because sprinkler heads are mandatory, we have put beach umbrellas over
> > our microscopes. I have a colleague who lost several high end systems
> when
> > a water line broke on a floor above his facility some years ago. The
> > sprinkler heads are not the only thing to worry about.
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> > Hi, Rosemary,
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> > I fought (and lost) with the Fire Marshall and building Engineers
> > when they built my lab. I designed the lab from ground up, and was never
> > asked about sprinklers. There are no other buildings on our campus with
> > sprinklers, and I was not informed that sprinklers were going to be
> > installed in my labs when they were being built, nor was I asked where I
> > wanted the heads installed. When I walked in the door to see the labs (I
> > was actually forbidden for a month to walk through the labs during
> > construction) I discovered a sprinkler head directly above the spot where
> > my TEM column would sit! After much wrangling (and griping and
> belly-aching
> > on the part of engineers and construction crew), I was at least able to
> > insist that the head be moved to a side wall in the room, away from the
> > microscope column, so that if the head ever leaks, it will not drip on
> the
> > column, and so, if it is ever bumped, we would have a prayer of a chance
> to
> > cover the thing and protect the microscope. I'd like to build a box to
> > cover the head, but we get inspections from time to time, or, more
> ideally,
> > hire an outside plumber to cut the line. I have sprinklers in the rest of
> > the lab, and fire extinguishers right outside the door. I don't need a
> > sprinkler head in my TEM room! I also have a head in my SEM room, but
> it's
> > further away from my scope. I could probably throw a plastic dropcloth on
> > that scope and save it. (As a side note, this same construction crew
> > installed two chilled water spigots UNDER my wall-mounted desk, in the
> knee
> > space, in my office, and installed the lock to my TEM room on the INSIDE
> of
> > the door. They weren't the brightest lightbulbs in the boxes!)
> >
> > Ed
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> > Hi all, (sorry for cross-posting)
> >
> > I know this has been discussed before, just wondered if there were any
> new
> > thoughts. We're moving twice, first into a refurbished basement, second
> > time into a new building. The basement has a sprinkler system in case of
> > fire, unlike our current building which just has alarms (it's a single
> > storey brick building). I imagine the new building will have some sort of
> > sprinkler system too.
> >
> > What precautions, if any, do people take to protect against the unlikely
> > showering of your confocal or EM?
> > Are there any relatively simple alternatives? (One alternative is to have
> > fire-doors and walls for each room but that is prohibitive.)
> >
> > thanks much,
> > Rosemary
> >
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