- Fire Sprinklers are by far the most efficient and effective safety devices known to man, having a better than 99% success rate in service world-wide.
- Smoke detectors can only warn of fire and depend on someone calling the Fire Brigade. Fire Sprinklers not only warn of fire they also act immediately to extinguish the fire - even if no one is present.
- Over 50% of all fire casualties are either young or old, or physically or mentally incapacitated and cannot properly help themselves. Fire Sprinklers, even if they do not succeed in putting out the fire, will at the very least raise the alarm and greatly extend the time available for escape or rescue.
- Fire in the home is responsible for over 75% of all fire-related deaths and injuries in the UK. Every day 2 people die and 50 are inured in fires in the UK. Your chance of experiencing a serious fire in your lifetime is around 1 in 5.
- Residential Fire Sprinklers are NOT expensive, costing typically £1/sq.ft in new homes or about £1500 for a 3-bed house. This is less than 1% of the cost of an average new house - or about the cost of carpeting - but sprinklers are designed to last at least 50 years. Even so - can you put a value on a life?
- Fire Sprinklers are very reliable. Records show that the chance of accidental operation in service is 1:16,000,000 (one in sixteen million). Less than your chance of winning the Lottery.
- Houses which suffer major fires are seldom able to be lived in afterwards and are often demolished. In contrast rooms protected by residential fire sprinklers can often be back in use within a few hours, and the rest of the house is usually unaffected.
- Each sprinkler is individually triggered directly by the heat of a fire, and the system will have gained control of the fire long before the Fire Brigade is even notified. Only the sprinkler directly affected by the fire goes off (NOT all of them), typically using only 10 gal/min of water to control the fire.
- Sprinklers use very much LESS water than the Fire Brigade. Because the sprinkler tackles the fire immediately, it has a much smaller fire to deal with than the one the Fire Brigade meets when it arrives some 10 - 30 minutes later. A fire sprinkler uses between 1/25th and 1/100th of the water used by EACH Fire Brigade hose - so in the event of a fire, sprinklers will minimise water damage.
- Modern Residential Sprinklers are small, neat and unobtrusive and visitors are seldom able to spot them - indeed concealed versions are now available. They all come in a variety of finishes and colours and can be made to match any decor.
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