Learn how to finalize a piping plan by incorporating upright sprinklers in a gym area. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to extend piping, adjust elevations, and lay out the upright protection.
Key Insights
- The article details the process of extending existing piping in a kitchen to a gym area, through the use of a level two piping plan.
- The guide emphasizes the importance of adjusting reference levels and elevations, with specific instructions to set the elevation at 14 feet, eight inches for the vertical piece connecting two areas.
- It also provides instructions on installing upright sprinklers, including setting the elevation to 18 feet, three inches and ensuring the reflector faces up while the outlet orifice faces down.
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In this project so far, we've only dealt with pendant fire sprinklers, both with the semi-recessed and the concealed ones with cover plates. In this video, we'll be nearly wrapping up our entire piping plan and using some upright sprinklers. So let's go to our Level Two piping plan, and we'll be working on the gym area.
So what I'd like to do is let's take the pipe in the kitchen. And let's extend this out. And we'll go to Create Similar.
And we'll run this just along the wall there. And let's run this out just about here and escape. Okay, let's go to Draw Pipe and connect that.
Now I don't quite want this back-to-back fitting yet. Now this pipe, I actually want to change it to reference Level Two, and the elevation we're going to set to 14 feet, 8 inches. Now when I draw this to the centerline, and extend this, I should have a vertical piece connecting the two.
Let's go to that 3D view. If we see here, this is good. This is our piping leading up to the gym area.
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So let's go back to our Level Two piping plan. And 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 fairly easy. We'll go to our system and Sprinkler.
And this time, let's choose our half-inch upright. Now it's the same idea except the reflector is facing up and the outlet orifice is facing down. So I'm going to place it till about just here.
It's not that important right now. So the elevation is set to Level Two. And 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 stay tight right there. Here's this main, I still think this is about—yeah, this is definitely too low. So let's go on ahead and change this to 18 feet.
Now we might have to adjust this when we go to connect our branch lines here. 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 to be going in this direction, and we still want to make it one inch, about something like that. Now let's take our detail line, the center of the main. Now this should be okay.
Alright, so our main is at 18 feet elevation. And our upright sprinkler is at 18 foot 3, make sure they're both set to Level Two.
