A Complete Guide To Dry Riser - Its Importance, Benefits, Requirements, And Much More!

Many studies have shown that limited or poor access to the water mains is one of the main causes of uncontrollable fire that may cause a great damage to both human life as well as property. Mostly every home has a fire prevention system, but very less people are aware about the ways on how the fire fighting crew would get access to the water mains. 

Dry risers are the most efficient and simple way to provide water to multiple floors of a tall building. The time saved can avert a disaster. There are many benefits of installing dry riser. Let us know about them in detail!

Benefits of Dry Risers and requirements that must be met by them

• Their installation doesn’t require any kind of special equipment or any facilities
• They don’t require the design or the structure of any building to be modified or altered.
• Most efficient way than other systems to provide quick access to the water mains.
• Dry risers generally have compressed air that is filled inside the pipes. However, they can be filled with water instantly to fight against fire by pumping from the Fire Service Appliances.
  

The requirements that must be met by the dry risers are as follows.

• The dry risers shouldn’t be more than 60 meters apart in horizontal direction.
• They should have fire appliance within 18 meters of the inlet box of dry riser.
• No portion of floor area should be more than 60 metres from outlet.
  

What benefits do you get from Fire Extinguisher maintenance visits?

Well, many organizations tend to avoid the importance of regular maintenance visits of the portable fire extinguishers including Dry Risers. However, it must be noted that having a professional and trained technician to visit your business premises for dry riser servicing becomes very important as well as necessary these days.

The primary purpose behind their visit is the service of portable fire extinguishers. However, there are a lot more services that they can offer you in terms of your fire extinguisher maintenance.

Even other things are well considered by them. For instance, they will ensure whether the equipment is fit to serve the services it is intended to. A regular visit even assures that the fire equipment is located properly and correctly and is not obstructed. They even check the signs that indicate whether it has been tampered.

The technician would also inform your staff some of the main things about the fire equipment they need to know along with the instructions required to use them and even what to use the equipment on. While the technicians are on their visit, they would also ensure whether all the fire-fighting alarms, doors, extinguisher, and equipment meet the required standard or not.

The means of escape should be clearly signed. The fire extinguisher technician is properly trained and keeps up-to-date with the current codes of practices. It makes them deliver clear, detailed, and in-depth services than just the maintenance of the fire equipment.