Hall I' th' Wood Museum - Redetec editorial

Hall ith Wood Tailored Fire Security Group installed an FM200 based Redetec rack total flood unit within a critical CCTV equipment rack enclosure at the Hall I' th' Wood historic house and museum in Bolton.

Hall I' th' Wood is a rare surviving example of a 16th century timber framed Tudor hall and is also the birthplace of Samuel Crompton's Spinning Mule.
During a recent re-fit a new security monitoring system was installed with CCTV covering security for the Hall and grounds.
An area of great concern was the ongoing protection of the critical equipment racks within the security management room. Installation of a total flood gaseous fire protection system was not possible and so Redetec was chosen to protect the vital CCTV equipment racks enclosures.

The Redetec unit is mounted within the equipment rack and provides continuous smoke detection and fire suppression via in-built clean gas delivery. As the Redetec unit is completely self-contained, installation time was all but eliminated. The system is designed to operate continuously, even when the room is occupied.

Redetec is a rack mounted unit which detects fire conditions within the control equipment rack itself, thus giving early indications of alarm conditions before any possible fire escalates to a critical stage. The unit has the ability to detect fire on either a single or co-incident operation (via optical or ionisation type smoke sensors). Once a fire condition has been reported to the main processor and after a preset delay period the extinguishing agent is released into the cabinet and the fire is extinguished.

Redetec has the added advantage of having ventilation fan control which can be shut down during fire alarm and re-initiated to ventilate the enclosure after a gas release.