Sweden's Ice Hotel has been ordered by the National Housing Board to install fire alarms, despite being made completely out of frozen water. The Ice Hotel, which is rebuilt every year in northern Sweden out of enormous chunks of ice from the Torne River in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, will this year come equipped with fire alarms.
Best Regards Tom.
Now installing a sprinkler system would be a lot more problematic.
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perhaps an ice cube maker?
Nah, not so much. Make them out of PEX and continually circulate warm/hot water through them to keep 'em from freezing. Just keep them away from the ceilings.
I can't imagine anyone wanting to go stay in a place like that, can you? Bbbbbberge!
I'm thinking Viagra must be a BIG seller there....
Freeze alarms??
They aren't immune to fire. People smoke in bed.
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Even concrete buildings burn, because all the furnishings &c.
I checked the Wikipedia page for those things, and the ones they reported on didn't have much flammable stuff -- it's a big gimmick to make as much stuff out of ice as possible, so that's what you get.
If code says "fire alarms" and some bureaucrat* says "in an ice hotel? Never mind", and then some schmo splashes a bottle of vodka on himself and sets it on fire, the bureaucrat in question will get in hot water for saying "yes", even if nothing would have happened differently with fire alarms.
Bureaucrats never, ever, get in trouble for saying "no".
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