Uniformat D4030
Portable fire extinguisher
Also called extinguisher, ABC extinguisher
Service life
Years in service. The band runs from the shortest to the longest life the sources state, so it shows how much they disagree, not how long 80% of units last. The line is the median of the stated lives.
Basis
- 10–15 years · CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, p15 · HUD CNA 3.6.1.4 “Fire extinguishers” — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (planning life)Family properties 10 years, elderly 15. US multifamily housing.
How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.
Municipal accounting lives for fire protection (D40)
8 municipal policies from Ontario set a life for fire protection as a whole, from 5 distinct tables: 20–40 years, median 22.5. These are amortization periods chosen for accounting, not measured lives, and they describe the system rather than this component.
Years. Each dot is one stated life and each bar a stated range; equal values stack. The dashed line is the median. Policies that copy the same table count once.
All 9 stated lives
| Municipality | As written | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amherstburg | Fire Safety - Control Panel, Smoke Detectors | 20 | p8 · 2026 |
| Amherstburg | Plumbing - Sprinkler System | 20 | p8 · 2026 |
| Grey Highlands | Fire Alarms | 20 | p11 · 2026 |
| The Blue Mountains | Fire Alarms | 20 | p11 · 2019 |
| Bancroft, Centre Hastings, Hastings Highlands, Wollaston · same table | Sprinkler/Fire System | 20–25 | p5, p4, p6, p5 |
| Meaford | Fire Protection - Sprinkler System | 25 | p17 · 2020 |
| Meaford | Fire Protection - Alarm Panel | 25 | p17 · 2020 |
| The Blue Mountains | Sprinkler System | 25 | p11 · 2019 |
| Grey Highlands | Sprinkler System | 40 | p11 · 2026 |
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Preventive maintenance
No maintenance tasks are sourced for this component yet.
Open questions
- Only one source so far: HUD planning lives for US multifamily housing. Canadian and observed sources are needed.
- No preventive maintenance tasks are sourced yet.
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Citation
unfinished.one (2026). Portable fire extinguisher, v0.1.0. https://unfinished.one/c/fire-extinguisher/v/0.1.0BibTeX
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url = {https://unfinished.one/c/fire-extinguisher/v/0.1.0},
note = {CC BY 4.0}
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