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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Technical Advice => Topic started by: dougie on November 06, 2006, 09:57:17 AM

Title: Smoke calculations
Post by: dougie on November 06, 2006, 09:57:17 AM

Does anyone possess or know where to get a spreadsheet for the smoke calculations within BS7346-4: 2003? I'd be very grateful for these.

Title: Smoke calculations
Post by: FPM on March 20, 2007, 09:41:11 PM

Does anyone know the regulations regaurding hose reels still left on site and are not servicable even though they have been replaced with extinguishers, i think they should be removed people may panic and reach for them over an extinguisher. Does any one know the precise regulation if any relating to this. Thanks Mike

Title: Smoke calculations
Post by: AnthonyB on March 21, 2007, 10:37:27 PM

There is no specific 'regulation' per se, but in locations where the client cannot afford to remove the reels (say until a refurb) we say to box them in (easy still with rels in recessed cabinets or auto reels that feed through a small flap in the wall). Failing this we require them to be signed or tye-tagged 'do not use' or similar using signs or tags that use colours and symbols as per the safety signs regs

Title: Smoke calculations
Post by: John Webb on March 22, 2007, 12:07:58 PM

Dougie,
To get back to your query, have you looked at www.bre.co.uk at all? Howard Morgan and others produced a lot of information on smoke calculations, and I recollect when I left BRE ten years ago they had or were about to produce some computer software to assist people with these calculations.

Title: Smoke calculations
Post by: AnthonyB on March 22, 2007, 04:57:47 PM

Attention Moderator-

Could you please split the topics so the hose reel & smoke calulation ones are seperate?