MarkhamBuilding InspectionsInspections
Audibility Of Alarm Systems (Silencing)
Published by City of Markham
This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Map
- Published by
- City of Markham
- Date
- January 1, 2025
- Also called
- Audibility of Alarms Systems (Silencing)
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 3
Overview
The City of Markham's Builder Tip No. 67, dated January 1, 2025, on silencing fire alarm sounders inside condominium and rental suites, one of the City's non-housing tips under the 2024 Ontario Building Code and a companion to its wiring tip. It quotes Sentences 3.2.4.18.(8), (12) and (13) on manual silencing for up to 10 min, automatic signal silence after 60 s outside the zone of initiation, and 2-stage systems. Its objective describes two options, silencing switches 1200 mm to 1400 mm above the floor, and hotel suites.
What it covers
- 3.2.4.18. Audibility of Alarm Systems
- Objective
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