A couple friends of mine did lose a house, to a garage fire.
They are in northern NYS. They heated with wood, so the
insurance companies didn't want to insure them. Needs
"automatic heat". The house is a loss, and no insurance to
help rebuild.

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"jamesgangnc"
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I got 8 sprinkler
heads to put in the garage I'm building out at our lake
house. Picked
them up on ebay for about $5 apiece. Idea came to me after
some of
our friends almost burned down their house with a garage
fire.
Happened while they were at home and they didn't know it
until the
neighbor called them. By then flames were rolling up the
outside
wall. $100k+ in damages and it barely got out of the garage
into the
living space above before the fire dept put it out.

I think you could do a whole house for a couple hundred in
materials.
Not sure how much additional plumber labor but I would think
you could
keep it under a grand total. My grandparents house in
missisppi built
in the 1920's had sprinklers located in on the ceiling in
front of
each fireplace hearth. Since there was a fireplace in every
room it
amounted to a whole house sprinkler system.