A firefighter in my town told me something that changed how I run wire

We were both grabbing coffee and he asked what I did. When I told him, he said, 'You guys always run the low voltage wire right next to the romex, huh?' He explained that in a bad fire, the heat can melt the low voltage jacket first, short the system, and kill the alarm before the heat sensors even trip. I've been leaving a solid 6-inch gap between them ever since. Has anyone else heard this or started doing something similar?

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harris.emma2d ago

That's a scary thought, makes you wonder what other code stuff we're all doing wrong.

hannah3851d ago

Maybe we're overthinking it. Most code works fine for what it needs to do.