Rubber Flooring Flame Spread Rating

Flame spread rating requirements are applied in the national building code of canada nbc primarily to regulate interior finishes.

Rubber flooring flame spread rating. Target rubber stair treads tile. Flame spread is primarily a surface burning characteristic of materials and a flame spread rating is a way to compare how rapid flame spreads on the surface of one material compared to another. However it continues to be the most widely used surface flame spread test for wall and ceiling finishes. Samples of beech wood and laminate flooring contain the emissions of standard gas monitoring table 2 20.

For interior stairs subject to heavy duty use our target rubber stair treads feature a raised round disc for added traction. In either case the flame must not spread more than 4 87 inches 100 mm. Rubber treads risers and tiles listed on this page fully meet the astm e84 flame spread rating of 25 or less. Submit manufacturer s certification that resilient flooring furnished for areas indicated to comply with required flame spread rating has been tested and meets or exceeds indicated or required standard.

It was never designed to be a floor covering test and was only adopted for floors as an interim test method. For outdoor use use grit surface aluminum stair treads instead. From these observations a flame spread rating can be calculated. Formulated with class a compounds these treads offer outstanding flame retardant properties astm e 84 flame spread rating of 25 or less.

Continuously the spread rate had been slowing down. The areas of public buildings that are regulated in accordance to flame spread ratings are. Flame and smoke resistant neoprene epdm rubber manufactured at brp meet or exceed the guidelines set forth by astm c 1166. Table 2 0 5 10 15 20 25.

Ecore surfaces are engineered to help prevent slips and falls as well as absorb impact when falls happen. Exits public corridors elevator cars and service spaces. This requires that cellular and dense elastomers be exposed to a bunsen burner with a specified flame for 5 to 15 minutes respectively. The values in table 1 recorded distance of flame spread rate for different flooring types after the first minute of the experiment.

The air near the floor is the coolest portion of a room. Flooring is the last material to be ignited during a building fire and therefore does not require the highest flame resistance. As a result customers or patients stay safer and you help mitigate your liability. We highly recommend these for indoor use only.

For example if the flame travels 19 1 2 feet in less than 5 1 2 minutes the time required for flame to spread on 19 1 2 feet of red oak the rating is 100 times 5 1 2 divided by the time minutes in which flame spreads 19 1 2 feet on the sample.