Fire!

Back in 2015 I noticed the digester which wasn't in front of the Sainsbury's building at Kiln Lane. While today, after returning trolley 75, I noticed a large tank out the back. Quite noisy, with quite a lot of gurgling going on. Was this one actually a digester? I though probably not, settling for a more mundane tank for the storage of heating fuel.

However, there was a maker's plate screwed to the side which told me that that tank was a 037c/06e made by Franklin Hodge of Hereford.

The Franklin Hodge website directs me to something called the Redbook Live, a product of the BRE group, a composite involving both fire research and building research. From which I learn that this tank holds water for the sprinkler systems for the shop, a superior tank which only needs to be emptied and checked every ten years.

One of a range of LPS 1276 tanks made by said Franklin Hodge, with LPS appearing to mean, in this context, loss prevention standard, rather than, for example the large polyp stony corals which google seems keen on. I suppose that they are excited about losses and leaks, not because they are worried about water in the road, but because they want to be sure that the tank was full, should it be needed.

Clearly an area awash with standards and regulations. How many of them driven from Brussels?

The only snag with all this being that I don't see why a water storage tank should gurgle so much. Do the regulations required the water to circulate through the sprinkler system continuously to make sure that it would circulate in case of need?

PS: the maker's plate mentioned above is also mentioned in the regulations. It must be there.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/digester.html.

Reference 2: http://www.redbooklive.com/.