How to Select a Mist Sprinkler System

Who Benefits from Fire Sprinkler Systems?

These include heritage buildings, hostels, hotels, schools, colleges, museums, hospitals, and big warehouses. One Department of Education bulletin on buildings specifies that new schools – with the exception of some low-risk schools – must have fire sprinklers installed.

Care homes and the homes of very vulnerable people, specialist buildings, and not forgetting the firefighters themselves also benefit from installed and operable sprinkler systems.

Note that in England, the law requires automatic fire sprinklers be installed in new residential blocks more than 30 m high, self-storage facilities with an open plan greater than 2000 m², and compartmented shop areas. 

Mist sprinkler systems react to the temperature of their surroundings. Once the temperature reaches 57 ⁰C, the sprinkler system sprays mist to lower the temperature of the fire and suppress it. Sprinklers get triggered one system at a time. Automatic sprinkler systems can lower the cost of constructing a building, by eliminating the need of compartmentation (to prevent a fire from spreading). Installing a mist sprinkler system can decrease the number of fire protection structures the builders would have had to include otherwise.

Since mist sprinkler systems react faster to fires than conventional sprinkler systems, people, especially vulnerable people, or those with little or no mobility have more time to escape to safety in the event of a fire. Businesses are also able to get employees to safety, in the event of a fire, if mist sprinkler systems are installed in the premises. Mist sprinkler systems are effective in most types of premises, we suggest you seek professional advice prior to committing to one waymethod of fire suppression. Other than installing fire alarms, fire doors and emergency signage, you can make your property safer with a mist sprinkler system.