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Ensuring In-Home Safety with AquaSAFE™,
Madison, WI,
USA

Ensuring In-Home Safety with AquaSAFE™

Former Madison, WI Firefighter Chooses Uponor AquaSAFE to Ensure Safety in Forever Home

Jesse Faust, a former Madison firefighter and EMT, sustained partial paralysis after a severe car accident in 2022. During the construction of his new home, Faust prioritized fire safety, and after seeing how commercial buildings benefit from sprinkler systems, he chose to incorporate a residential solution with Uponor AquaSAFE™ — a multipurpose PEX piping system that combined with his home’s AquaPEX® plumbing.

Project Key Facts as PDF

Location
US - Midwest, Wisconsin
Completion
2024
Vertical market
Single-family
Application
Plumbing, Residential Fire Sprinkler

Ensuring In-Home Safety with AquaSAFE™

By choosing Uponor AquaSAFE, the Faust family gained both peace of mind and enhanced safety. Faust emphasized the importance of this system, saying, “Being that I'm handicapped, and I don't get around that well, fire sprinklers make a huge difference. They’re almost a lifesaver for me.

The system’s integration with the home’s AquaPEX plumbing lines offered a seamless and reliable solution, providing installation ease for the contractors and reliable safety for the family. “The AquaSAFE system ties into the cold-water plumbing, so it is a live system that always moves fresh water throughout the home when anyone uses a plumbing fixture. Using the same Uponor PEX-a pipe and ProPEX® connections allows the entire system to work flawlessly together,” explains Bill Panfil, Uponor representative from Midwest Sales and Marketing. 
 

Ensuring In-Home Safety with AquaSAFE™

Uponor Fire Sprinkler Head
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install pipe with MKE tool
install pipe with MKE tool 2
Fire sprinkler systems ceiling
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sprinkler head
floor plan

“This project has opened our doors to doing more fire sprinkler installations in the future. We now have the confidence to move forward with it.” 

Louie Van Den Bergh, installing plumber, Van Den Bergh Plumbing 
 

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