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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
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I did this 15++ years ago at my college fraternity at UO. We went for cheap over cosmetic. The building is 6000 sq ft more or less (reference Delta House in Animal House movie for a visual. Same structure.)
We had an old school sprinkler guy do it. He was a fraction of the cost of the polished and well presented contractors. Recollection is that we used plastic pipe, which seems sort of counter intuitive for sprinklers.
As for advice? Just do a bunch of asking around. We were on a budget and allowed the contractor to work on a fill in sort of basis. We had the luxury of an entire Summer of vacancy. The end result? We passed inspection. The sprinklers are not attractive. The building is able to be occupied and insurable.
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