This article will provide insights into the use of upright sprinklers in a piping plan, specifically in the gym area. The discussion covers aspects like extending pipes, changing reference levels, creating back-to-back fittings, and adjusting elevations.
Key Insights
- The piping plan project includes pendant fire sprinklers, while introducing the use of upright sprinklers. The transition involves extending existing pipes and creating similar ones along the wall.
- Key modifications to the piping include changing the reference level to level 2 and adjusting the elevation to 14 feet, 8 inches. This ensures a vertical piece connecting the two parts of the piping system.
- The upright protection layout involves choosing a half-inch upright, ensuring the deflector faces upward and the outlet orifice faces down. It is crucial to adjust the elevation to 18 feet, three inches and maintain the main at an 18 feet elevation.
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So far in this project, we've only dealt with pendant fire sprinklers—both the semi-recessed type and the concealed ones with cover plates. In this video, we'll be nearly finished with our entire piping plan and using some upright sprinklers. So let's go to our Level 2 piping plan, and we'll be working on the gym area.
What I'd like to do is take the pipe in the kitchen, extend it out, go to Create Similar, and run it just along the wall there. Let's run this out to about here, then press Escape. Okay, let's go to Draw Pipe and connect that. I don’t want this back-to-back fitting just yet.
This pipe—I actually want to change it to reference Level 2, and we'll set the elevation to 14 feet, 8 inches. Now when I draw this to the centerline and extend it, I should have a vertical piece connecting the two. Let's go to the 3D view.
If we look here, this is good. This is our piping leading up to the gym area. So let's go back to our Level 2 piping plan. For this run of main, let's pull it all the way to about there, and we might as well cap it.
Now let's go ahead and lay out our upright protection. This should be relatively easy. We'll go to our System, then Sprinkler, and this time let's choose our half-inch upright.
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Now it's the same idea, except the deflector is facing up, and the outlet orifice is facing down. So I'm going to place it roughly here. It's not that important right now.
The elevation is set to Level 2 and currently at zero feet. Let's change it to 18 feet, 3 inches. Okay, let's go ahead and look at this section here, pull this in, and take a look. We're just about an inch below. We can be one to six inches—in this case, we'll keep it tight right there.
Here's this main. I still think this is about—yeah, this is definitely too low. So let's go ahead and change this to 18 feet. We might have to adjust this when we go to connect our branch lines, and we'll come to that in a second.
Now let's click on our sprinkler, go to Draw Pipe, and this time we're going in this direction. We still want to make it one inch—something like that. Now let's take our detail line, place it at the center of the main. This should be okay. All right, so our main is at 18 feet elevation, and our upright sprinkler is at 18 feet, 3 inches. Make sure they are both set to Level 2.
