In the second issue of “The Accessory,” AGF shares the news of their PURGEnVENT patent, 5 tips to improve your fire sprinkler system maintenance, how to get free CEUs from us, and more.
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Improve Your Fire Sprinkler System Maintenance with These 5 Tips
Fire sprinkler system maintenance keeps a system ready that could save your life. Everyone hopes fire sprinklers never need to activate–that there’s never a fire. But the worst scenario for building tenants and property is a system that doesn’t work when they need it.
Maintenance doesn’t need to cause a headache for facilities professionals, though. With these five tips, building managers can maintain a safe fire sprinkler system with ease.
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How to Offer a Better Five-Year Obstruction Investigation
and Differentiate Yourself in a Crowded Marketplace
With the increased emphasis on the 5-year obstruction investigation, one might be left to wonder when it became a requirement. Well, the requirement has been lurking in NFPA 25, the Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, for over 20 years but became clearly defined in the 2002 edition. Most insurance companies now require 5-year internal pipe inspections as a condition of their coverage. Some have denied claims for damage done by system-related issues if a building owner can’t prove that the system has been maintained correctly and internally inspected every 5 years.
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The Accessory: Issue 1, 2020
Beyond the Basic Auxiliary Drain
Two Upgrades that Save Thousands
A broken auxiliary drain, sometimes referred to as a drum drip, is at best an inconvenience to building tenants. At the worst, it costs facility owners thousands (or in some cases, hundreds of thousands) of dollars. One international furniture retailer reported that shutting down due to a broken auxiliary drain cost them $50,000 per hour in lost business, plus the cost of system maintenance and fines paid to the fire department for responding to a false system trip.
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Prevent and Monitor Corrosion in Three Simple Steps
Fire sprinkler pipe corrosion is a silent threat to a system. It’s difficult to detect without an inconvenient inspection for building tenants. When left undetected, it can cause anything from a minor leak to serious danger for building occupants and property.
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AGF Manufacturing’s PURGEnVENT Valve Awarded US Patent
AGF Manufacturing announced that a patent for their innovative PURGEnVENT valve was granted on August 27, 2019. The Patent covers their PURGEnVENT sprinkler air vent product line, which was designed to reduce corrosion in wet pipe fire sprinkler systems by releasing trapped air.
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AGF Named ICC Preferred Provider
ICC training keeps fire protection industry professionals in the loop on updates to code and the products that meet that code. AGF is excited to announce that we have become an International Code Council (ICC) Preferred Provider.AGF Named NICET Recognized Training Provider
NICET training keeps many engineers in the fire protection industry up to date on new codes and product innovations. AGF is pleased to announce that we have become a National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) recognized training provider.
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AGF University Provides Fire Sprinkler Product Training
AGF recently launched AGF University (AGFU) to provide fire sprinkler training that addresses the unique challenges of the fire sprinkler industry.
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