How To Fire Block Metal Framing

It acts as a cap at the top of your framed basement wall to contain any fire in the wall long enough to alert the smoke alarms in the basement see illustration at bottom.

How to fire block metal framing. As a rule of thumb these sprays offer fire protection for up to 240 minutes. The main thing is the be sure that the blocking is flush with the bottom of the joist and straight and flat. Standard construction specifies the vertical studs be installed 16 inches apart.

If needed provide them. Its just material drywall in my case thats nailed into the gap between your top plate of your framed walls and the foundation of your house. It works by dividing framing cavities into separate compartments slowing the passage of flames and combustion air.

Installing this type of fire blocking is relatively simple. I measured the length of each piece cause Im a bit of a perfectionist and didnt want a gap. Or Drywall to the top plate and over the gap between the concrete wall and the framed wall.

With resources like the American Iron and Steel Institutes AISI cold-formed steel framing standards. Without this blocking installed your. In otherwords where the wall meets the floor and the floor meets a ceiling.

The block must be slightly less than the distance between the studs plus three inches. Firestopping sprays are particularly beneficial in cases where aesthetics are not a priority. If fire can pass through one section and travel to another it needs to be blocked.

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