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Designers and installers of passive fire protection solutions often come across the choice of whether to use cast in fire collars or traditional retrofit fire collars to firestop pipe (or even electrical service) penetrations....
Quelfire’s fire sleeves play an important role in preventing the spread of fire in buildings where certain service penetrations cross compartment lines. We offer two different types of fire sleeves: the QRS...
QuelStop Fire Batt can be installed in a variety of ways. However, the most common method would be to install it into a formed opening, otherwise known as a ‘letterbox opening’...
Often, firestopping products like fire collars, fire wraps, and fire sleeves are installed at the early stages of a project when the building is open and exposed to all kinds of weather conditions: UV and high...
There are often times where the positioning of a plastic pipe may not be accurate enough to determine the location of a correctly sized aperture for the plastic pipe. Therefore,...
Chances are you’ve encountered the different service penetration insulation configurations on our detail drawings and may have wondered what they mean, especially if you’re relatively new to the construction industry....
How many times has this happened onsite? You’re working with a 110mm diameter plastic pipe that is penetrating a fire compartment floor. Now, you know it can be suitably firestopped...
The supporting construction, otherwise known as the fire-separating element or substrate, is simply the wall or floor that supports the service penetration seal. When it comes to understanding the limitations...
An engineering judgement (EJ), otherwise known as a technical assessment or technical evaluation, is a fire-resistance evaluation of an onsite application that does not have any direct test evidence. What...
The simple answer is yes. However, there is a long-standing myth in the construction industry that non-combustible metal pipes (cast iron, copper, and steel) with an internal diameter of 160mm...
A fire strategy plan is a document that is unique for every building, outlining the measures that a building or organisation has in place to prevent fires, and how they...
Intumescent fire pillows are passive fire protection products designed to prevent the spread of fire through metal cable trunking systems that pass through fire compartment walls. They consist of a...
