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<div id="signature">Any thoughts from me would be not to have large batteries, unless detached from the living space. </div>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 2025-06-06 6:17 am, Nicholas Ponzio via RE-wrenches wrote:</p>
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<div>For those of you installing batteries inside homes how are you treating this poorly-worded section of Code? </div>
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<div><strong>NFPA 855 - 15.4.2:</strong></div>
<div><em>If the room or space where the ESS is to be installed is not finished or non-combustible, the walls and ceilings of the room or space shall be protected with not less than 5/8 in. Type X gypsum board.</em></div>
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<div dir="auto">This section of fire code has given us much consternation over the years. Most installations in this climate are going into unfinished basements. Are you all installing 5/8 sheetrock for the entire basement? Just the area around the batteries? Something else?</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance for any thoughts.</div>
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