Fire Safety Systems Brochure

You put heart and soul into your new home, not to mention your family, belongings and memories. Protect it well. The Uponor fire safety system will make your house the safe haven it should be. Every 12 seconds, theres a house fire. Thats one statistic. Heres another, more troubling one: 4,000 Americans die in fir es each year, 85% of them in fires at home. What can you do about it? Theres insurance, but that wont save a life. Nor will it replace old photos or cherished heirlooms. You could put up smoke alarms or invest in a security system, but neither does anything to put out the blaze. Uponor fire safety systems put your mind at ease.Our sprinkler syst em is the most effective, efficient kind of pr otection you can buy. Its connected directlyto the main plumbing lines of the house, ensuring r eliability . By protecting your home with Uponor, you can sleep well knowing that it will protect you. The fastest first response. New synthetic materials make homes burn fast. Flames can engulf a room in as quickly as four minutes, the entire home perhaps a minute later. Consider this: the fastest response time for most urban fire departments is three to four minutes after the call. Each fire sprinkler works as soon as it detects fire. It releases approximately 14 gallons of water per minute, putting out most fires in seconds. Thats bef or e major damage can oc cur. Each second becomes even more precious when its time to help your family . How pr ecious? Consider this: smok e det ect ors alone increase survival rates by 50%, but when combined with sprinklers, the sur vival r at e climbs to 97%. Faster. Sprinklers put out most fires in seconds, before the fire department arrives and before t heres major damage. Safer. While smoke detectors alone increase survival rates by 5 0%, adding sprinklers increases that to 97%. Reliable. Our sprinklers respond to heat not smoke, and draw water from your main cold-water line. The odds of a malfunction are just one in 16 million. Cost-effective. An upgrade that saves you money , Uponor fir e saf ety syst ems can reduce insur anc e rates by 10% to 20%. Durable. Our PEX tubing resists corrosion. Without soldered joints, it s vir tually leak-pr oof . Unobtrusive. Barely notic eable, each sprinkler can be recessed or concealed behind a special plat e that falls away when activat ed. Guaranteed. The tubing behind the system comes with a 25-year limited warranty when installed by an Uponor- tr ained pr of essional.