Fire Alarm Annual Inspection

CAN/ULC-S536 Estimate Form

Building Name : -

Address : -

Date

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FIRE ALARM SYSTEM

Section1: Insert a number to indicate the sumtotal of all the main fire alarm control panels you have protecting your building.

FIRE ALARM CONTROL PANELS IN YOUR BUILDING

Quantity of panels

TIME to Test (minutes)

TOTAL Time to test all panels

Small Fire Alarm Control Panels (1-20 Zones)

60

Mid-size Fire Alarm Control Panels (21-50 Zones)

120

Large Fire Alarm Control Panels (+50 Zones)

180

DEVICES

Section 2: Insert a number to indicate the sumtotal of all the fire alarm annunciators, including any remote fire alarm panels you have in your building.

FIRE ALARM ANNUNCIATOR/REMOTE FIRE ALARM PANELS

Quantity of panels

TIME to Test (minutes)

TOTAL Time to test all panels

Small Fire Alarm Annunciators (1-20 Zones)

15

Mid-size Fire Alarm Annunciators (21-50 Zones)

30

Large Fire Alarm Control Annunciators (+50 Zones)

60

Remote fire alarm panels (transponders)

30

FIELD DEVICES

Section 3: Insert a number to indicate the sumtotal of each of the various fire alarm devices you have in your building. If you don't want to walk around your building to count devices, your original verification report may be a good source for this information.

FIRE ALARM DEVICES

Quantity of devices

TIME to Test (minutes)

TOTAL Time to test all devices

Manual Station

2

Heat Detector

3

Addressable Smoke Detector

3

Conventional Smoke Detector

7

Duct Smoke Detector

15

Bells/Horns/Speakers

2

Fire Alarm Strobes

2

Fire Fighter's Telephones

4

Sprinkler Flow Switches

10

Sprinkler Tamper Switch

2

Sprinkler Pressure Switch

5

Door Holders

2

Misc. Aux. Device

5

ACCESS DIFFICULTY

Section 4: To obtain a more accurate time estimate for your building fire alarm inspection, indicate the average ceiling height throughout your facility. This height translates into a difficulty factor to test all the devices located on the ceiling.

BUILDING CEILING HEIGHT

% @ this height

DIFFICULTY CODE

OVERALL DIFFICULTY

Normal Access (8 foot ceilings)

1.0

Some Difficulty (>8 foot ceilings)

1.1

Difficult Access (very high areas - >20 feet)

1.2

Very Difficult (restricted access - secuirity escort)

1.3

HOURS

TASK BREAKDOWN TO COMPLETE INSPECTION

HOURS

2 TECHNICIANS

OVERALL TIME (Hours)

Basic Fire Alarm Test and Inspection per CAN/ULC-S536-04

Extra time to test your audible devices AFTER normal business hours

TOTAL TIME

The number shown on the right is an approximate calculation of the amount of man-hours required to complete a proper fire alarm test according to the testing procedure demanded by CAN/ULC-S536-04. Considering that this number reflects a total for 2 technicians, the amount of time spent on site would be half the indicated number.