Fire is fast
That´s where home sprinklers come in.
A fire can double in size every 60 seconds, getting hotter and hotter as it does. In minutes, the temperature can reach 1000 degrees celsius, too high for anything to survive. Smoke alarms and an escape plan will get you and your family out of a burning house alive, but they can´t fight the fire.
By the time the Fire Service is alerted, most fires have already done major damage to the room they started in. And if someone is still in that room after as little as three minutes, chances are they won´t survive.
That´s where home sprinklers come in.
A single sprinkler head puts out 90 percent of fires before they have a chance to grow beyond the room they started in.
Sprinkler technology has come a long way in a short space of time. The cost of including home sprinklers into a new house or adding them as part of renovations is probably a lot cheaper than you think.
Home sprinklers are simply part of your existing plumbing, just like taps for the bath or a water line for the toilet.
More importantly, though, sprinklers provide the fastest possible means of extinguishing fires in your home.
Are cost effective - Built into a new home, sprinklers cost as little as $350 per room
Do NOT flood your home. Only the sprinkler head affected by fire activates - not all of them.
Automatically control a fire in your home until the Fire Service arrives. This means less fire damage and less water damage
Prevent fire becoming a threat to your life
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Visit www.fire.org.nz for further information on the New Zealand Fire Service