Fire Rated Floor Expansion Joints

Blanket type fire barrier for floor and wall expansion joints.

Fire rated floor expansion joints.

Building expansion joint slab and wall openings inherently create a pathway for fire and smoke to travel through. To maintain the integrity of the interrupted fire rated assembly and prevent the spread of fire a fire barrier or fire stop should be used. When specifying expansion joint covers architects engineers and building owners should specify protection against fire and smoke which can cause considerable damage and loss during building fire. An expansion joint that runs through a building may interrupt a fire rated assembly.

Often this is a government or authority requirement. Expansion joints and construction sealants. Us patents covering emseal s fire rated expansion joint product portfolio include. Fire barriers are a critical component of building safety solutions.

Per current building codes these joint assemblies must be tested at an. When these joints occur in a fire rated floor or wall a product or system must be used that has been rated to that same level. Floor expansion joint covers fire rated systems. Dual interlocking hinge series.

The dual interlocking center slide plates are hinged to allow the system to remain flush with finished floor surface. It is watertight fire rated and has a dual sided primary seal for both new and retrofit structural expansion joints in parking deck applications. Fire rated expansion joints that waterproof insulate block sound handle traffic and movement in a single product. Our industry leading fireline 520 expansion joint fire barrier products provide protection for 2 3 and 4 hour rated conditions.

Available in 10 lengths and engineered for simple splicing. Emseal s manufacturing plants are open and operating at full capacity. The main difference between fire barriers and fire stops is the allowance for movement. Nystrom s fire rated deck compression seal is a silicone bellow system designed with a 2 hour fire retardant saturated foam.

We ve designed our systems to fit any project s needs and provide superior protection to keep the threat contained. Fire retardant floor and deck foam. Waterproof fire rated trafficable sound attenuating insulating air wind seismic and watertight building expansion joints and precompressed hybrid sealants. Lateral shear movement option available.

This means if the joint occurs in a 2 hour rated floor assembly the expansion joint system used to fill the joint must also be rated for 2 hours. Balco fire barriers protect expansion joint openings by dynamically continuing the fire rated construction design elements throughout the structural separation allowing for thermal wind and seismic movements and for fire ratings up to 4 hours.