Fire Stopping
Fire-stopping is a sort of passive fire protection that is used to seal around apertures and between joints in a wall or floor assembly that has been certified for resistance to fire.
What Is A Fire Stopping?
In a fire-resistance-rated wall or floor assembly, fire-stopping is a type of passive fire protection that is utilised to seal around apertures and between joints.
The easiest way to describe it is as closing all openings to stop fire, along with smoke and heat—from spreading to other parts of the structure. By dividing the structure into fire-resistant sections, the spread of a fire is prevented. In order to limit the spread of fire both laterally and vertically, buildings must make sure that all gaps, openings, and voids are fire prevented.
The Purpose of Fire Stopping
A type of safety measure known as passive fire protection (PFP) is latent or inert under normal circumstances but activates in the event of a fire. It is a crucial part of a building's structural fire prevention system, which aims to limit flames or impede their spread.
By keeping the fire contained in a single compartment, safeguarding escape pathways for vital means of escape, and preserving the building structure to ensure its sustainability, PFP aims to control the spread of fire and smoke for as long as possible.All buildings, residential or non-residential, must have PFP provision.
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In the event that a fire starts, PFP's responsibility is to close the holes these penetrations leave. Every product made to meet this requirement is certified to withstand fire for a predetermined amount of time, anything from thirty minutes to four hours, and is fire rated.
One of the products made by PFP is an intumescent material that, while dormant or passive under normal circumstances, grows to many times its initial size when exposed to the heat of a fire.
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