Life Safety is Our Business

The purpose of a residential fire sprinkler system is life safety. Fire sprinklers allow occupants additional time to escape a burning building, and may also reduce significant damage to the home by quickly extinguishing a fire in its early stages. Installing a fire sprinkler system also has the potential to lower a homeowner’s insurance rate by 5-15 percent. Contrary to what is shown in movies, not all fire sprinklers activate at once; only the sprinkler heads closest to the fire will activate.

Home System Help

According to the National Fire Protection Association, it is the sprinkler installer’s responsibility to provide the original owner/occupant with the instructions for the inspection, testing and maintenance of the system, and then it is the owner’s responsibility to see that it gets done. Unfortunately, the information is not always passed on to subsequent owners.

Keller Fire-Rescue and the City of Keller want to ensure that all homeowners/residents that are living in homes equipped with residential fire sprinklers are educated in how the systems are inspected and operate. Please follow this link for tips: Homeowners Sprinkler System Checklist

 The requirements for residential fire sprinklers vary. If your proposed residence is 6,000 sf or greater, you are required to install residential fire sprinklers. If your home is located on a single point of access street or cul-de-sac greater than 600 feet in length, residential fire sprinkler are required regardless of square footage. The 600 feet for the single point of access is measured from the centerline of the intersecting street. A straight line is measured inward, toward the development, and any residence located beyond the 600 foot marker, requires the installation of residential fire sprinklers regardless of square footage. If you have a previously existing home on a single point of access street that does not have residential fire sprinklers, your property is considered legal non-conforming, which means it was a legal structure when built. If you make modifications to that residence you lose the legal non-conforming exemption and are required to install residential fire sprinklers throughout the existing residence, and any addition to that residence. See the documents listed below for specifics.

Residential Sprinkler Requirement

Detail - Residential Fire Sprinkler Line 2012-8-2

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