What is the maximum height for a fire alarm pull station in Vancouver?
CAN/ULC-S524-06 is the Standard for Installation of Fire Alarm Systems and Section 5.2 is entitled “Manual Stations”. Provincial Building Codes and the Vancouver Building ByLaw (VBBL) both reference this Standard so, in Vancouver (as well as the rest of Canada): Sentence 5.2.1 reads: “Manual stations shall be installed not less than 1200 mm and not more than 1400 mm above the finished floor level measured to the centre of the manual station.” What if you’re replacing an existing manual station that’s not installed to the current standard? In many buildings more than thirty years old, some manual stations are of the old style disk type which aren’t even ULC Listed. In many instances, these units are often found on equally archaic three-wire unsupervised twelve volt fire alarm systems. None of these installations could be termed “deficient” as they probably met the Code requirements of the day. Replacing a defective manual station (as with any other similar fire alarm device) is a mainte
