Fire Foam For Door Frames

For fire rated openings you should verify that the grout or bituminous coating will not negate the rating.

Fire foam for door frames.

Great stuff window door insulating foam sealant is a specially formulated minimally expanding foam with a low pressure build that remains soft flexible after curing. Fire acoustic seals fire door foam is a revolutionary polyurethane foam pu foam designed to seal the gaps between walls and fire door frames achieving fire protection for up to 1 hour. However density of material is a critical factor to fire performance and certain hardwoods may not be suitable because they are known to exhibit unpredictable behaviour in a fire. It is also suitable for filling in around ducts and other service penetrations.

Door frames should be purchased from the door manufacture or from a company licensed to manufacture them or via a bwf approved fire door centre. Features benefits where large gaps exist between the door frame and wall construction conventional intumescent seals may not always be appropriate. The practice of knocking up a door frame on site or in a workshop hanging a door and believing that the result constituted a valid fire door installation was never correct. We provide energy efficient solutions with thermal break frames decorative openings with madera and sound control with sound tech xpress.

The foam can be formed without trimming to create long lasting airtight and water resistant seal proven not to bow window or door frames when properly installed. Fills gaps up to 32mm wide and 200mm deep. 12 months shelf life. Ceco door a leading manufacturer of steel and hollow metal doors and frames composite and commercial doors.

If you do decide to grout frames it is essential that. In timber and composite fire doors. Once cured the foam can be cut sawn painted and plastered. Full technical data sheet is also available upon request.

Generally softwood is suitable for fd30 door frames whereas hardwood will be required for fd60. Only requires standard methods of fixing no need for specialist expensive intumescent packers. It is only used in masonry openings never drywall. It is hand troweled and not pumped.

Once cured the foam can be cut sawn or plastered over within only one hour of application based on an ideal working temp of 20 c. Sound reduction capabilities of up to 60 db rw. The foam expands up to 40x it s original volume. In such cases sealmaster firefoam can be used to maintain the integrity of a fire compartment.