Barndominium

The Barndominium is a small house located just outside Drumheller in Starland County, Alberta. It started its life as a small barn that was built pre-World War I and was converted to a guest house in 2017.

The Fire Alarm System was installed on the 12th of May 2019 by User:AdenK2333, who maintained, tested and conducted fire drills when necessary.

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On May 26, 2020 the alarm system was decommissioned and removed due to a dispute between the installer and the owner.

On the 31st of May it was announced that a Fire-Lite MS-10UD shall replace the old panel and all Initiating devices and Notification Appliances will be reused except for one G1-HDVM which was damaged upon temporary installation on another site.

System Specifications

Panel

The panel was a Fire-Lite MS-4 installed as the original panel in May 2019. It was a used panel, that was used previously by the current owner in another facility. It was located by the stairs.

Notification Appliances

The Barndominium contained three EST Genesis G1-HDVM (white, wall mount, no fire marking) horn/strobes. The owner requested white only without fire marking in order to not distract from the beauty of the establishment as they are small and rather invisible.

Initiating Devices

Pull Stations

The establishment had 2 Edwards 270-SPOWB bilingual pull stations, these were also installed at request of the owner due to their small size and to match the notification appliances.

Automatic Detection Devices

There were two different automatic detection devices. The downstairs/kitchen detector is a System Sensor C2W-BA, 2-wire, photoelectric i3 smoke detector, it is configured for alarm verification to avoid false alarms caused by cooking.

The upstairs hallway detector is a System Sensor C2WTA-BA, 2-wire, photoelectric i3 smoke detector with a thermal sensor and a built-in sounder.