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So, you have the gig planned out, the customer has accepted your contract, and you begin trucking in your equipment for the mobile setup. The "Facility Rep" then tells you you cannot run a fog/hazer because, "it will set off the smoke detectors."

I can understand the point from a major brand-name five star hotel not wanting to explain to their guests that "no there isn't a fire, just a wedding in our main hall"

Is any one else as frustrated as I am with this? I have never set off smoke detectors when they have been there because I don't "over-Fog". I have considered a hazer, but if they say no to fog, they say no to haze.

Any solutions? Normally, it is not feasible to pre-test the venue to see what will happen, and if you ask in advance, they don't know the answer, so they just say "no fog".
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You can get a permit from the city that allows the venue to dis-engage the alarms for a period of time (the time of ur event). You go down there and say that i am doing a sound and light show at so and so venue and you want to get a permit to turn the fire alarms off in that particular room from that particular time frame. You then give that to the venue and there shouldnt be any probs! Ive done it all the time!
you don't even need the permit Big Grin

When smoke alarms are iso'd, you need to be inside the building. The only way you may need a permit is if the hotel is isolated by each floor, and not by room blocks. But still, people are always iffy about isolating alarms in case something happens. That's when you rely on dust to fall/rise from people dancing, or the bass from the subs, then you have the effect...but also makes you sneeze!

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