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Would you pay $4,000 for a fire sprinkler system in your home?
Don Hoye wouldn’t.
“I don’t think it’s necessary,” said Hoye, a real estate agent who moved his family into a new home in Bayport two years ago.
He said his family would get ample warning of a fire from the required hard-wired smoke detectors. Sprinklers, he said, are “another expense being pushed down the throats of consumers.”
The public might not like the idea, but a proposal to require sprinklers in all new single-family homes and duplexes in Minnesota is gaining momentum. The sprinklers would go into every room in a house
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