New NFPA 96
- Thread starter mbryan
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does that org. post alot of new laws and the requirement standards on cleaning?
Douglas Hicks
Member
NFPA 96-1999 is a model code. that means it is not law or code until adopted by whoever makes the rules for fire protection/suppression in your jurisdiction. In Oregon, the AHJ (Authority Having Jurisdiction) may be the State Fire Marshal, Or-OSHA, Fed-OSHA, the local fire department, the building inspector, the insurance company, the building owner, or the person doing the work (that is us). Your local area may have different rules. I find that most of the time, no one knows the code, and know one cares until there is a fire and a claim. Then the person who takes the fall is the person who last did anything to the system in question.
I quickly scanned the new NFPA 96-1999, which I received in the mail yesterday. I subscribe to the CD version, which is updated periodically. The only difference I noted was that fans need to have the ability to be tipped for cleaning. Everything else appeared to be the same as NFPA 96-1998.
I suggest those of us who clean exhaust system get a copy of the current NFPA 96-1999, be familiar with the information, and keep a copy in the service vehicles. When you go to court, the opposing attorny will refer to 96, wheather it is adopted in your jurisdiction or not.
Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
I quickly scanned the new NFPA 96-1999, which I received in the mail yesterday. I subscribe to the CD version, which is updated periodically. The only difference I noted was that fans need to have the ability to be tipped for cleaning. Everything else appeared to be the same as NFPA 96-1998.
I suggest those of us who clean exhaust system get a copy of the current NFPA 96-1999, be familiar with the information, and keep a copy in the service vehicles. When you go to court, the opposing attorny will refer to 96, wheather it is adopted in your jurisdiction or not.
Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
David Saulque
Senior Moderator
A example of code conflict is the Mechanical Code. Within the code it states that access doors to be installed for cleaning and inspection. NFPA states that there must be access doors, 2 inches from the bottom side of the horizontal run. Thus the contractors install the doors on the bottom of the run or runs. I have seen this time and time again. They install the doors on the bottom because it is easy and out of the way of strut systems. System can't be cleaned with the access doors on the bottom of the runs-I just reinstall new doors.
Over time the door seals on the bottom of the run starts to leak and create other issues. I address the problem from day one and have been taken to task by a large contractor-he didn't make his Final until the doors were welded and new door installed in the side of the run.
The Mechanical Code is the Bible for the architect and the contractor and the fire departments have NFPA and both sides are the big dogs on the block.
David
Over time the door seals on the bottom of the run starts to leak and create other issues. I address the problem from day one and have been taken to task by a large contractor-he didn't make his Final until the doors were welded and new door installed in the side of the run.
The Mechanical Code is the Bible for the architect and the contractor and the fire departments have NFPA and both sides are the big dogs on the block.
David
Interesting, many differences in the way things are done, even on the mechanical side
Has it changed much since 2001?
