Warehouses, distributors and stores with tall racks
Free check of whether your warehouse racks need a high-piled combustible storage permit: the 12-foot and 500-square-foot triggers and what plans show.
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What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Construction fire safety plan door.
Modeled on: International Fire Code chapter 32 as adopted locally (example: Fairfax County High-Piled Combustible Storage guideline)
From public data
of high-piled storage is where an operational fire permit is required
Source: Fairfax County Fire Marshal, High-Piled Combustible Storage guideline
Draft an NFPA 241 fire safety plan for a building job: program manager, water supply, extinguishers, hot work and impairments. Free to read.
Questions
Combustible materials in closely packed piles, or on pallets, in racks or on shelves, where the top of storage is over 12 feet. When the fire code official requires it, high-hazard goods such as Group A plastics, rubber tires, flammable liquids and idle pallets count above 6 feet.
Fairfax County requires an operational permit to use a building or part of one as a high-piled storage area over 500 square feet. Other fire departments use the same model code but may measure the area differently, so check yours.
A High-Piled Storage Plan that names its author, with a scaled floor plan showing the location and size of every high-piled storage area and storage arrangement. Fairfax wants it with the building permit for new storage buildings or a change of use.
Related doors
Where is the building job?
What address do you want history for?
What chemicals do your workers use?
Where will the hot work happen?
What hazardous wastes does your shop make?
Where is the construction site?
Answer it and ePlan opens the Construction fire safety plan door with your answer filled in.