So, the village I work in had adopted the 2006 IBC and IRC. In our ordinance they amended the 2006 IBC, section 903.2 to include sprinklers in every building except bascially single family homes and detached garages/accessory structures. Something wasn't sitting right with me about this though. A while back I had a townhouse come in and we told them they needed to put in sprinklers based on what we amended. That went fine. They are putting in the sprinklers. I got a call the other day asking if a duplex was required to have sprinklers. I did a little research and it finally dawned on me. We amended the 2006 IBC, not the IRC. Townhouses, based on the IBC scope section 101.2 provides exceptions. Those exception to the IBC are detached one and two family dwellings and multiple single family dwellings (townhouses).......shall comply with the International Residential Code.
Soooo, I suppose we have been enforcing something we should not have been, yet.
Now we are in the process of adopting Appendix P of the IRC and amending it so that detached single family homes are not listed.
"AP101 Fire Sprinklers. An approved automatic fire sprinkler system shall be installed in new two-family dwellings and townhouses in accordance with Section 903.3.1 of the 2006 International Building Code."
So the question is, does this sound correct now so that everything except single family detached homes is required to have sprinklers or will I have to instead list all the exceptions such as accessory structures, carports, etc.?
Soooo, I suppose we have been enforcing something we should not have been, yet.
Now we are in the process of adopting Appendix P of the IRC and amending it so that detached single family homes are not listed.
"AP101 Fire Sprinklers. An approved automatic fire sprinkler system shall be installed in new two-family dwellings and townhouses in accordance with Section 903.3.1 of the 2006 International Building Code."
So the question is, does this sound correct now so that everything except single family detached homes is required to have sprinklers or will I have to instead list all the exceptions such as accessory structures, carports, etc.?