Automatic Fire Sprinklers For Homes

It is said that computers and the advances in technology have done a great deal to make our lives better. If you had told me this earlier, I would not have doubted you. But ever since I adopted technology and tried to harness its infinite potential to make my life simpler, I have only succeeded in making myself more and more miserable. Take something as simple as automatic fire sprinklers for instance. They sound simple enough right! I mean, what could be complicated about a fire sprinkler that is automatic and functions each time it detects a fire, right? Wrong! As I found to my consternation after I had initially set up and activated my automatic fire sprinklers.

The first time the automatic fire sprinklers went off, it was a genuine mistake. Having forgotten that I had installed them, I proceeded to begin my monthly ritual of garbage disposal. I usually collect all the paper related garbage that accumulates on a monthly basis and burn them in a handy incinerator. Now this incinerator is housed in a little compartment to the back of the house. Whether it was sheer bad luck or bad design, the installers of the automatic fire sprinklers has put in a nozzle right above the incinerator. So, after I had stuffed it with all the paper and flammable substances I could find and had started it, the automatic fire sprinklers kicked off to rain all over my garbage disposal plans! Not only did I have a whole lot of explaining to do, I also had to manually mop up the sludge that resulted.

The next time the automatic fire sprinklers went off, it was not really anyone’s mistake. Unless you factor the error potential that technology comes with! During a night of restful slumber, me and the missus were rudely shaken awake by the automatic fire sprinklers going off in the dead of the night. Panicking that something somewhere was ablaze, we rushed all over the house to see if the fire had been put out. As it turns out, the only fire that night was over a hundred miles away, in a nearby town. The automatic fire sprinklers had decided to do a quick system testing of their own for reason best known to the computer that controlled them!

After these sort of incidents became commonplace, I did what anyone in my position would have done. Rather than try my luck at rectifying or repairing the automatic fire sprinklers, I got rid of them once and for all and replaced them with the old technology that was much more reliable – portable fire hydrants!