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Fire Sprinkler Permits — San Francisco

SF Fire Sprinkler Permit

New sprinkler systems and alterations, filed on their own or coordinated with the alarm work — carried through fire review to issuance.

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What this covers

  • New sprinkler systems — NFPA 13, 13R and 13D
  • Alterations and additions to existing systems
  • Sprinkler filed together with companion fire alarm work
  • Correction rounds carried through fire review

How it works

  1. Talk to Tony — tell him the address and the scope. Two minutes, from the job site.
  2. We prepare and file the application through PermitSF, the city's portal.
  3. City fees pass through at cost — you see them before anything is filed.
  4. When the permit issues, we line up the inspection — the sequencing is on us to track, not you.

Good to know in San Francisco

  • Sprinkler work is a plans filing on the SFFD lane inside PermitSF — not a no-plans class. We set that expectation up front.
  • The alarm and sprinkler filings usually travel together. We coordinate the pair so one review never waits on the other.
  • The filing goes in under the C-16 fire protection contractor's license.

Who uses this

Licensed C-16 fire protection contractors, general contractors coordinating sprinkler with the alarm scope, and building owners adding or altering a system. Fire alarm side of the job? Start with the Fire Alarm Hotline page.

Talk to Tony — start the permit now.

Tell Tony the address and the scope, from the job site. We prepare and file it through PermitSF and line up the inspection when it issues.

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PermitsPros — we file permits. We never promise approvals — that's the city's call, and we tell you so up front. City fees are separate and paid by you directly to the city.

Filed today. You never left the job.