Heads up on the new firestop foam in the 2024 code book

I just saw a crew on a hospital job in Austin using the old 2-hour rated stuff on a 3-hour wall, which is a major fail (the inspector caught it and made them tear out a whole section). The new foam cans have a tiny orange stripe on the label, but if you don't look close, you'll grab the wrong one. Has anyone else run into this mix-up on their sites yet?

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daniel5937d ago

Ever think that orange stripe was just marketing? Seeing a crew get burned like that sure changed my mind.

rileynelson7d ago

That stripe has saved my own skin before.

the_jana1d ago

Funny how we learn to trust certain signals. That bright orange stripe on tools, the beep on a backing truck, even the click of a seatbelt. They seem like small things until you see what happens without them. It's not just marketing when the real world shows you the cost. Makes you wonder what other simple warnings we ignore every day.