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.
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.
“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
“Uponor Construction Services designed the system, and we simply installed their design,” said Dale Hicks of Dale Hicks and Associates, LLC. “They have been of immeasurable service to us. I refer Uponor PEX to colleagues all the time.”
All 24 homes in the development feature Uponor AquaPEX® plumbing systems and AquaSAFE™ fire sprinkler systems with ProPEX® fittings in ½" to 1½" sizes. The multipurpose fire sprinkler systems seamlessly integrate into the home’s cold-water plumbing system, which increases the speed of installation and provides homeowners with greater peace of mind.
“Weber Hill Villas is just our latest development, and we will apply a lifetime of work, knowledge and innovation to make it truly world class,” explained Hicks.
