This historic private university in Indiana recently made a major announcement: students will now be required to live in on-campus housing through their their first six semesters (meaning, typically, their junior year of college). This new requirement would be easier said than done, however — it would require the university to construct several new buildings to house all these students, and quickly.
Huge multi-unit buildings like dorms come with a long list of code requirements, especially between units. And with hundreds of individual units, the man hours that fire caulk requires can turn into man days, weeks and even months. Sealants are tricky to get right — inspections are easy to fail, and re-dos are frequent — and messy either way. So, when the project’s interior contractor Gibson-Lewis discovered a faster, simpler firestopping method from Trim-Tex that ditches fire caulk, it was a huge breakthrough.
Gibson-Lewis selected a few of Trim-Tex’s trailblazing fire rated drywall accessories for this project: Fire Bead, Fire Gasket and the Fire Rated 093V Expansion. In this story, we will hear from the contractor's drywall crew, primarily about how Fire Bead made their lives easier and their work faster. (Next time, the project’s carpenters will tell us more about Fire Gasket.) Check out the video below, and read on to learn more!
