What is Compartmentalizing a Home?

Compartmentalizing a home for a fire is a passive fire protection technique that involves dividing a building into fire-resistant compartments to limit the spread of fire, smoke, and heat.

By slowing down the progress of the fire, compartmentalization provides more time for occupants to evacuate and reduces the amount of damage caused by the fire.

How Do You Do It?

You can use numerous different materials with high fire ratings to do this, but we use FireFlex Fire Resistant House Wrap, and one hour fire rated doors. We have used the wrap in this demonstration in different sections of the home, to keep any fire localized to one section of a home to give the homeowners more time to get out safely.