Uniformat D2020

Domestic water booster pump

Also called booster set, pressure booster

• Confidence C
• Version 0.3.0 (permanent link)
• Reviewed 2026-10-22

This is version 0.3.0. The latest is 0.4.0.

Service life

Years in service. One stated life so far; the band will widen as sources are added.

Basis

• 20 years · CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, p9 · HUD CNA 3.4.1.1.6 “Domestic Cold Water Pumps” — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (planning life)
  Same life for family and elderly properties. US multifamily housing. HUD's row is "domestic cold water pumps", which in multifamily buildings are mostly booster pumps.
• 20 years · Design standards: employer's requirements – Technical Manual (ER-DFE-XX-XX-T-X-0201, revision A-C01), p231 · 5.3.4 “Valves, booster sets and pumps: 20 years” — Department for Education (England) (design life)
  Printed page 231. Domestic water installations: booster sets and pumps (valves not mapped). Minimum life expectancy (design requirement) for DfE-funded school buildings. Minimum design requirements placed on contractors for school buildings, not observed replacement ages. Section 5.1.4 (sanitaryware) refers to CIBSE Guide M Appendix 12.A1 'in general'.

How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.

Preventive maintenance

4 tasks in 3 work orders. Intervals that fall due together are one visit: the annual visit also covers the monthly tasks.

1. 1Monthly
2. 2Monthly
3. 3Monthly
4. 4Monthly
5. 5Monthly
6. 6Monthly
7. 7Monthly
8. 8Monthly
9. 9Monthly
10. 10Monthly
11. 11Monthly
12. 12Annual

Months from the schedule start. Daily and weekly rounds run in between. Download the tasks as CSV for a CMMS, or ask the MCP tool get_pm_schedule for dated visits.

Frequencies are ISO 8601 durations in the data (P3M = every 3 months).

Open questions

• Every source here is a published planning, design or accounting life. None is observed replacement data.

Know the answer? Send it with a source to [email protected].

Cite this

Citation

unfinished.one (2026). Domestic water booster pump, v0.3.0. https://unfinished.one/c/booster-pump/v/0.3.0

BibTeX

@misc{unfinished_booster_pump_0_3_0,
  title = {Domestic water booster pump},
  author = {{unfinished.one}},
  year = {2026},
  version = {0.3.0},
  url = {https://unfinished.one/c/booster-pump/v/0.3.0},
  note = {CC BY 4.0}
}

Licence CC BY 4.0 · How to cite · JSON · Versions: 0.4.0, 0.3.0, 0.2.0, 0.1.0