Cornell University, Central NY. Attached map is just central campus. Our in house team performs all of the testing, inspection, maintenance, and smaller construction projects for all of these facilities, as well as many off campus properties. Larger projects go out to bid. The campus is served...
I agree, and water has been our guess as well. Unfortunately water has been pulled from numerous systems, numerous times, and tested by numerous labs, all coming back with nothing found that should be contributing to this, and backed up by testing of the failed heads which found no internal...
Let me give a little history. In 2011 we had a sprinkler head develop a pinhole leak at the seat in a high rack book storage facility. That single incident caused over $100,000 in damage, and further investigation turned up other corroded and/or leaking heads throughout the facility. We did a...
Sprinkler seepage, corrosion issues
We are seeing a rash of leaking, corroded sprinkler heads, all of the late 80s to current vintage. Mostly Viking, Reliable, and Tyco. looking for anyone seeing the same, or possible causes. We have done numerous lab tests with no smoking gun to date. We did...
