Friendly Reminder - You will never be regretful if you ASK BING before:

 Friendly Reminder - You will never be regretful if you ASK BING before:

1. purchasing a property for your business

2. installing a sprinkler system in a building

Recently, I have two clients:

One purchased one unit of a semi-detached house. He planned to use the unit as an office. He spent thousands of dollars for hiring professionals to design the office for him, besides more than $500k cost of the unit itself. After submitting the plans to the City, the City asked him to upgrade the exsiting1h combustible fire separation between the two units to 2h firewall. It is impossible to build an noncombustible firewall with parapets, unless he demolishes the whole house.

Another is building a new 4 units two storey rowhouse with secondary suites. The designer indicated on the floor plans that sprinkler system will be installed in the building throughout. The contractor was wondering if it is sufficient if the sprinkler system is installed in the basement only. I asked the designer why he wanted to install the sprinkler system in this building. The answer was that all the apartment buildings shall be sprinklered. I was speechless.