Editorial Contributions by SES Foam
CODES & STANDARDS
(cont’d on the next page)
BY BUILD-MARKETING
A Contractor’s
Guide to Managing
the Risks of
Oxygen-depletion
Fire-tested Attic
Assemblies.
DON’T GET
BURNED
BY NEW
ASSEMBLY
TESTS
If you think back to the last time you gathered with other spray foam contractors and discussed the
business of spray foam, you no doubt
heard things like:
• Off-ratio foam can be a real
problem.
• We need fewer dealers in our
marketplaces.
• Finding and training good
installers is a real challenge.
What you probably didn’t hear
is, we really need to be careful to
make sure our customers build their
attics according to the requirements
imposed by the fire test methodology
for the spray foam we are using.
This new risk for contractors is most
likely our biggest and deserves a
tremendous amount of focus and
communication to get it right for
our customers, as according to
Roger Morrison*, “The life safety of
individuals is at stake. What happens
in an attic fire when individuals try to
access the attic, such as a homeowner
from below or a firefighter from the
roof? We just don’t know.”
This issue pertains to spray foam
insulations which have been fire
tested in a simulated attic
configuration where oxygen
depletion has been the means of
fire suppression (the so-called
“snuff test”).
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