Ceiling Tiles Below Sprinklers

Melt away tile is factory mutual approved for installation below an automatic sprinkler system.

Ceiling tiles below sprinklers.

The ceiling tiles and panels are mounted in a ceiling grid system to provide a finished ceiling appearance and a sprinkler system located in the interstitial space above the drop out panels is installed in accordance with nfpa 13. By eric marino csc ed davis and michael chusid fcsi. The expense of double sprinklers can be avoided by using approved drop out panels that can be installed beneath sprinklers. Heat from the growing fire activates sprinklers that unimpeded by panels that have dropped out controls or extinguishes the fire.

Melt away foam ceiling tiles 2 feet x 4 feet x 1 inch are specially made to melt out of a suspended ceiling grid system. When exposed to heat from a small fire drop out ceiling panels soften distort and fall from ceiling grid. The 18 inch vertical clearance requirement is treated as a horizontal plane throughout the storage. 29 cfr 1910 159 c 10 in part states the minimum vertical clearance between sprinklers and material below shall be 18 inches 45 7 cm does this apply only to materials placed directly below the sprinkler heads.

When mineral fibre panels are used in suspended ceiling clouds fire sprinklers have to be installed both above and below the ceiling. The tiles may be removed and cleaned with mild soap and water. Drop out ceiling systems have been in use since the development in the mid 20th century of modern suspended ceiling systems and suitable plastics. A suspended ceiling system which is installed below the sprinklers with listed translucent or opaque panels that are heat sensitive and fall from their setting when exposed to heat.