This guideline specifies requirements and gives recommendations for the design, installation and maintenance of fixed residential fire sprinkler systems in buildings, or part of buildings, intended for residential occupancies, such as private homes (one and two family dwellings, row houses, vacation homes etc), apartments, flats, manufactured homes, care institutions (nursing homes, hospitals etc), hotels, motels etc, student housing, dormitories, asylum centres.The requirements and recommendations of this guideline are also applicable to any addition, extension, repair or other modification to the residential sprinkler system.It covers provision of water s