How Tough are Fire Sprinkler Heads? Do Cages actually protect sprinkler heads? Durability testing!

The sprinkler heads in my condo frighten me. This highly scientific video has alleviated some of my fear. Thank you.

Thanks bud. Just moved into an apartment with these everywhere. This vid gives me peace of mind lol

Thank you for this, I feel better about the sprinklers in my condo!

When you knocked over the display I was dying laughing 🤣 great video

LOL i love the commentary and the random items used 😂

"Every day when I go to school I see people trying to cut sprinklers with a reciprocating saw." -Firealarmdude5967 2022 Makes perfect sense, I see it at school all the time.

There are people at my school that like to jump and touch the sprinklers, little do they know they could accidentally set it off. Covers cant stop that sadly

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I came to this video because I want to clean the one in my apartment, but I'm afraid I'll set it off. I ended up staying to watch this guy take a batter, hammer, soccer ball, fire extinguisher, and a saw to a sprinkler. lmao. This is top notch quality, Mr. FireAlarmDude5967

Love the sprinkler videos man 👍

Its not so much the hazzard of setting them off, but hanging anything (colthes hangers WITH clothes attached, or even Xmas decorations) will severely affect there response time, and there spray pattern , once activated

Great and humorous demo

Great video, I have been thinking about this for a while!

Union Fitter here: it is still HIGHLY advised to be careful around them. Each head could be more fragile than the other so still avoid making contact with them. ALSO if you activate a sprinkler head you will not just flood the room it’s in. These are made to flow a LOT of water out of them and it will take an engineer or someone who runs the building a few minutes at least to get to a control valve of some sort to stop the flow of water to the head. You will flood not only your condo but the hall and more than likely the condos next to you. These systems usually sit over a hundred pounds of pressure so really high flow rate. Long story short: don’t touch them still lol

I was cutting dry wall around a live head today at work and was being extra careful but this made me feel much better to do it again haha

Great video

I'm scared to death to work around these in condos. This makes me feel a little better. I treat them like a live bomb when working around them

That is an awesome video........I have worked in many industrial sites and have always wondered how tough these are. I am also surprised that there are not more cages. Great job!! DD

My school district replaced most sprinkler systems a few years ago. They are now flush mounted under white covers in the ceiling. The head pops down in the case of fire.

Thanks for the demos!! My experience is that the typical fire-sprinkler-system discharges I've run into has been during a construction project by either a strike by a boom lift/scissors lift by another trade (painters, drywallers, electricians) or a forklift moving loaded pallets in a warehouse situation and gets too high. Also had a client with a high-bay warehouse that stored furniture for their large furniture store. The high-bay warehouse would then fill customer orders from the storage racks. However a firm with very poor welders had put together the rack system (5-rows high) from a 2-row system that had been purchased from another storage firm that had ceased operations. The Fire Department receives a fire alarm and sends trucks but when they get there the reason the system activated was that the rack system had collapsed due to the poor welding. Due to the furniture load every row of the 5 rows had its own sprinkler line. That was $400,000 of damage back in 1990 which would be $1 million or so in damage today. Other than that, as you correctly point, out these fire sprinkler heads are very durable except for heat. Only surprise here was the coat hanger as I've went into rooms of friends/colleagues at a business convention and told them not to use those sidewall heads as coat hangers. Have never seen those sidewall heads discharge but have heard about it second hand.