A combined underfloor heating and sprinkler system

摘要

An underfloor heating system 3 combined with a sprinkler system for extinguishing fires are both supplied by a common water supply system 1. The underfloor heating system 3 comprises piping and a heating system 3 which is actuated by a pump 2 and the sprinkler system comprises piping 4 in a void space above a ceiling and has a plurality of downward projecting pipes 5 which extend into a room and are terminated with a sprinkler head having a glass container filled with alcohol which fractures upon expansion from heat by a fire in the room so that fire may be extinguished.