Uniformat D4010

Fire pump

Also called fire pump controller

• 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. 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

• 20 years · CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, p15 · HUD CNA 3.6.1.2 “Fire pumps” — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (planning life)
  Same life for family and elderly properties. US multifamily housing.
• 25 years · General depreciation rates (IR265), July 2021, p51 · PUMP “Fire main pumps” — Inland Revenue (Te Tari Taake), New Zealand (accounting life)
  Printed page 51. Pumping sets category. Printed DV 8%, SL 6%. Tax depreciation lives set by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for New Zealand income tax, not engineering or asset-management lives; they are banded and often short (e.g. reticulation piping 25 years). The July 2021 edition was the newest PDF reachable; the online Depreciation Rate Finder may hold later determinations.
• 25 years · General depreciation rates (IR265), July 2021, p51 · PUMP “Sprinkler pumps” — Inland Revenue (Te Tari Taake), New Zealand (accounting life)
  Printed page 51. Pumping sets category. Printed DV 8%, SL 6%. Tax depreciation lives set by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for New Zealand income tax, not engineering or asset-management lives; they are banded and often short (e.g. reticulation piping 25 years). The July 2021 edition was the newest PDF reachable; the online Depreciation Rate Finder may hold later determinations.

How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.

Preventive maintenance

28 tasks in 5 work orders. Intervals that fall due together are one visit: the every 5 years visit also covers the monthly, semi-annual, annual and every 2 years tasks.

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

Months from the schedule start. 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). Fire pump, v0.3.0. https://unfinished.one/c/fire-pump/v/0.3.0

BibTeX

@misc{unfinished_fire_pump_0_3_0,
  title = {Fire pump},
  author = {{unfinished.one}},
  year = {2026},
  version = {0.3.0},
  url = {https://unfinished.one/c/fire-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