Intumescent Fire Stopping
Intumescent Fire Stopping
Preventing a fire from starting in your home or workplace isn't always possible. But with Intumescent Fire Stopping products, you can prevent it from spreading. As a result, fires become compartmentalised and limited to just one area, giving people plenty of time to evacuate. Intumescent effectively blocks flames, reducing risk to life and limiting the damage a fire can cause.
Any standard room is likely to have many ‘weak spots’ regarding stopping a fire in its tracks. This can be gaps around and in the door, cavity spaces in the ceiling, or pipework which goes through a wall.
The smallest of gaps can cause heat, smoke, and fire to spread from one area to another. Installing intumescent fire stopping products means you’ll make it hard for a fire to spread.
Intumescent Fire Stopping
Intumescent strips and smoke seals contain a substance which, when exposed to heat, swells to increase the volume but not the density. In other words, it expands to fill the void and provides a smoke and fire barrier when temperatures rise to extreme levels.
Typically mixed with graphite or sodium silicates, this is a hard, expanding type of intumescent. This unique mixture produces a product which expands rapidly to fill space.
The other type of intumescent available is a soft char, which produces ash. This type of intumescent is a poor conductor of heat and acts as an insulator. Often this type of intumescent is coupled with hydrates to keep it cool.
Fire Door Seals
Regulations require fire doors to have an effective seal at all times, which is why they must always be kept shut. That way, if a fire breaks out in the room, the rest of the premises will be unaffected by smoke and fire for a period of time for an effective evacuation.
However, every gap in the door needs to seal in the event of a fire. This includes the gaps around the glass, letterboxes, locks, and door viewers. Luckily, we stock a wide range of passive fire products which do just that.
The same goes for ventilation grilles, which you often find on doors to server rooms. They give the required ventilation in normal conditions, but will seal shut in a fire for up to 60 minutes. This offers ample fire protection to reduce fire damage and increase escape time.
Mind The Gap
Fire-rated mastics and foams, which act like an ordinary sealant, give the added reassurance of effective fire retardant properties. This keeps seals airtight for longer in the event of a fire.
Pipes and ducts which travel between walls and floors give the perfect passage for a fire to travel through. Widely known as penetrations, pipework and ducting increase the risk of fire spread. Or at least that would be the case had you not installed pipe collars, wraps, sleeves and other intumescent fire stopping products. Designed to expand inwards in intense heat, these passive fire products seal the pipe and act as a fire stop.
Making Items Fire Resistant
Applying our fire retardant spray onto any untreated and unpainted absorbent material protects them from fire. This includes fabrics, wood, cardboard, foam, paper and hessian. When exposed to heat, they will char instead of catching alight.
Non-toxic, odourless, and otherwise unnoticeable, it creates an invisible shield which will deflect heat. Our unique products help to reduce the ability for a fire to start or spread.
