Recently we were called in by a fire sprinkler inspection company to do a remote visual inspection of an apartment complex’s standpipes – the fire department’s outside hook up. The complex included 15 buildings each with its own standpipe and check valve and each needed to be inspected visually in some way other than having the fire sprinkler inspection company dig up the pipes to get the visuals needed. We used a 7/8” push camera and a 6mm IT concepts videoscope to cover the distance needed for the inspection. We were able to easily and clearly capture the visuals that the customer needed of each pipeline and/or check valve and the entire project took only about 4 hours for myself and Eric Sullivan, another Atlas Inspection Technologies inspector, to do all 15 buildings. I have a background in this industry and I can tell you that this was definitely a much superior way to get the visuals needed.

At the end of the inspection we provided the fire sprinkler inspection company with a concise full report that showed images captured in still form via email and DVD formats, as well as video capture where needed. The customer was very pleased and was able to see that they had the visuals they needed for the property owner and fire department.

Just last week I was in a meeting with another fire sprinkler company that was interested in what we had to offer and I was explaining to them about the inspection we just did. He said he wished he would have known about us a couple of weeks before because they had a similar inspection where they had to spend multiple days and multiple workers digging up and inspecting a customer’s standpipes and check valves for blockage. Their job took them a couple days. We could have handled it in couple hours which would have saved their customer quite a bit of money and time. We’ve got that fire sprinkler inspection company’s business for the future.

If you’re needing standpipe, interior check valve inspection or if your insurance company has approved a dry pipe inspection, Atlas Inspection Technologies has the superior inspection solution. Call us at 800.281.0650, 206.774.8704 , visit our website, or email Atlas at info@atlas-inspection.com for more information or a quote.