Shadowing Practice: Fire Pump Monthly Churn Test - Learn English Speaking with Video

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So when you come in for your monthly pump runs, you're going to come in this is a normal situation.

The first thing you're going to want to do, call on your security company and put the system in test.

If you don't put it in test, you can set fire alarms off and other stuff where you get the fire department here.

So first thing you do is put it in test.

I don't know if your procedure is to bypass the horn strobes

when you do it or however your normal procedure is with that.

After the system is in test, the first thing you want to do is come in here and actually do a visual inspection on the system.

Make sure everything is in the open position.

Just because it's alarmed doesn't mean that something is not right.

First thing I always do is you come in, take a look at your main water supply unit of the building.

Both valves are open.

You can tell this.

These are OSM -Y, open stem and yoke.

With this stem sticking out means that the valve is in the open position.

As we turn this to close it, this stem actually goes inside the valve.

So it's ever flush with the valve, it's off.

If it's out, it's in the open position.

So our main water coming in, both valves are in the open position.

We follow this up and through, go through our pump suction valve.

Valve is open, open position.

We're going to come through, we're going to take a look at both our gauges.

Both of those should be reading roughly the same sitting pressure

right around 50 to 60 psi is where you guys are at.

They're different looking gauges just because of the pressure.

One we're going to negative suction if we had to, one of them goes to high pressure.

Both of those are looking the same.

We come through here.

This valve right here which we'll talk about in a couple of minutes.

This is a casing relief valve.

What this does is actually

when the pump is running it's going to discharge water into the drain to keep the pump cool.

If it doesn't work, you can boil the water out of the pump

and then you overheat the pump and there's issues with that.

That's one thing we'll check when the pump is running to make sure it's discharging.

When it's not running, we want to make sure it's not discharging.

Come through here, test headers, close position, check our pump discharge for the open position.

We also check the valves on all our systems

that are indicating veins in line when the pipe is open across this shut

and make sure those are in the open position.

Look up top, make sure our jockey pump piping is leak -tight

and make sure that our valves are both in the open position along with our bypass, both are in the open position.

Once we have everything ready to go, we're ready to do our pump test.

First thing that we're going to want to do is we're going to check the jockey pump.

Each one of these have a pressure switch inside of them.

We're going to make sure that it comes on and off when it should, when it goes.

It came on, shut off.

We're up to pressure.

That's why it's so quick.

If you were down to say 65 PSI right now, that pump would keep running until we got up to 170 PSI.

The next one we're going to check is going to be the main fire pump.

You don't want to open these really, really fast because it actually drains the system.

It drains out fairly fast.

So there's a design so we don't have to drain the entire system out to kick it on.

We're just draining that sensing line really fast where it kicks on so we don't hammer the system.

So now the next one we're going to do is test that one.

It's going to be hard to see with this gauge.

Pressure in here is going to start to drop.

If you do it slow enough, you can see it drop.

It does drop fast so once it gets below that 150 your fire pump will kick off.

The pump came on, everything was good.

The next thing you're going to look at is what the pump starts.

You need to lower your feet.

See this one's standing at sitting pressure around 55.

This one now jumped up to 180.

Since we're going through the pump, we're actually pumping the water pressure from this section here up to the system.

The other thing we're going to look for, case relief out quite a few pints here.

I want to make sure this one has water discharging out of it.

That's your case relief.

If it doesn't have water coming out of it, it should have popped down.

It's small.

That means it's not running right.

There's something going on in case really.

The other valve is going to be our drain line for the actual microphone pair.

It's a water pool.

It's hard to see inside here.

You can actually feel the water.

Right here it's actually spraying water out.

What it does, that water comes through it.

It drains out.

Sometimes it springs out like it does.

It's normal for this type of pump.

Again, if you're out, if you need to keep an eye on those gauges, You can see where you're at,

let the system run for 10 minutes.

Once you take your 10 minute mark, what you're going to do is you're going to pull over.

Hit your stop button.

Generally listen to that pump should stop running.

Once it's stopped, take a look at your gauge.

Make sure you're still above where you need to be.

Let it go and you're back to normal.

You guys have probably your churn test.

Drain test.

You only have to do a drain test quarterly if you guys do your quarterly inspections.

That's only one drain every quarter because you have a backflow.

So what you do on that one with the pump running, you're going to have everything going.

You're going to open up a main drain, which is going to dump water outside.

You open that all the way, you take your pressure.

You have static pressure.

That's where the system's at normally without nothing flowing.

Residual pressure is going to be what it would be with that main drain wide open.

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You'll look at our car right here.

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You see that static and residual.

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I already did it this morning, and that's what that is.

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And then you do your alarm tests on the four systems.

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Is that drain test done while you're doing that turn test?

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You can.

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It only needs to be done quarterly.

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While you're doing that, you can just open that drain up.

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You can do your 10 minute turn test for your quarterly.

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When you do your quarterly, you can get it running and make sure everything looks good.

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You can go and do your water flow alarms, which would be at each inspector's test for the pore systems.

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You can come back and do your main drain test, which will probably all take you more than 10 minutes.

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Once that's done, that's part of your 10 minute run rather than sit here for 10 minutes

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and then go do other stuff.

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You can do it all at once if you want to do that because each one of those, when you do a quarterly,

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that counts as your weekly and your monthly test all at once because you're doing more.

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Just like my annual I'm doing today, we'll basically take care of a weekly, a monthly, and a quarterly all today.

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So you wouldn't have to do anything for that.

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It's just more stuff that we have to do.

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Any other questions on anything at all?

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Now when you do a drain test, do we do all four of them?

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You only have to do one a quarter.

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The only reason why we're doing one a quarter is...

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So we should pick a different main for each quarter.

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I do all four of them today on the annual because I have to do that for the annual.

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When we do these, what we're basically doing is we're flowing enough water through the backflow to clean any kind of deposits

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or debris that's on the backflow.

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You just try and get it off the full seat and flush water through it to help clean it.

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That's the code for the backflow that you have to do.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Fire Pump Monthly Churn Test”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pump, test, drain, valve, pressure. This video has 128 sentences and 1454 words to shadow. The speech runs for 7:12. The speaker talks fast, about 202 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pump noun	/pʌmp/	A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
drain noun	/dɹiːn/	A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
valve noun	/ˈvælv/	A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
quarterly adjective		Occurring once every quarter year (three months); taking place quarter-yearly.
gauge noun	/ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/	A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
discharge verb	/dɪsˈtʃɑɹdʒ/	To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
alarm noun	/əˈlɑɹm/	A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
stem noun	/stɛm/	The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
procedure noun	/pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/	A particular method for performing a task.
pipe noun	/ˈpaɪp/	A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
inspection noun	/ɪnˈspɛkʃən/	The act of examining something, often closely.
static adjective	/ˈstæt.ɪk/	Unchanging; that cannot or does not change.
flush verb	/ˈflʌʃ/	To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
bypass noun	/ˈbaɪpæs/	A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
jockey noun	/ˈd͡ʒɑki/	One who rides racehorses competitively.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
come through verb		To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
come back verb		To return to a place.
come in for verb		To be subjected to.
get up to verb		To do something, especially something that is forbidden or improper.
kick off verb		To make the first kick in a game or part of a game.
look up verb	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	To have better prospects.
open up verb		To open.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

Once it's stopped, take a look at your gauge.
Let it go and you're back to normal.
You'll look at our car right here.
Is that drain test done while you're doing that turn test?
It's just more stuff that we have to do.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is put · be done
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	drain, which is · test, which will

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 46 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, you're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: inspection /ɪnˈspɛkʃən/, flush /ˈflʌʃ/, suction /ˈsʌkʃən/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pump, drain, valve.

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