Uniformat D4020
Standpipe and hose system
Also called FDC, fire hose cabinet
Service life
Years in service. One stated life so far; the band will widen as sources are added.
Basis
- 50 years · CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, p14 · HUD CNA 3.6.1.1 “Building fire suppression sprinklers, standpipes” — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (planning life)Same life for family and elderly properties. US multifamily housing. HUD gives sprinklers and standpipes one row.
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 |
Each row was matched to its page automatically: the label and the number appear in the text of the cited page. An editor has not yet compared every row with the table, so follow the page link before relying on one. About the policies · All approved rows as JSON
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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Cite this
Citation
unfinished.one (2026). Standpipe and hose system, v0.1.0. https://unfinished.one/c/standpipe/v/0.1.0BibTeX
@misc{unfinished_standpipe_0_1_0,
title = {Standpipe and hose system},
author = {{unfinished.one}},
year = {2026},
version = {0.1.0},
url = {https://unfinished.one/c/standpipe/v/0.1.0},
note = {CC BY 4.0}
}Licence CC BY 4.0 · How to cite · JSON · Versions: 0.1.0