On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 10:40:56 +0000, alan_m wrote:

The problem could be that if the regulation specified fire suppression
equipment insurance companies may/would insist on formal yearly
inspection before insuring a property. The use of unregulated devices
may not be acceptable to an insurance company.

Wouldn't do for proscribed equipment, I'd think, as it's a stopgap. But then
it's the price of a dinner with drinks....

I'd consider it the equivalent of a bucket of water or a hosepipe near a
bonfi prudent, a stopgap, not enough in some cases, but might just save your
ass. And these work automatically, and are small enough that a "nuisance alarm"
is a nuisance and not a catastrophe.

A residential sprinkler system that goes off unattended will flood the place
eventually, possibly causing more damage than the bit of heat that set off a
sprinkler head.


Thomas Prufer