Firestopping wall joints is just one part of the framing and drywall process in commercial construction. But the timing of everything else hinges on when it gets done — and done with enough care to pass inspection. So, when framing/drywall contractor Gibson-Lewis needed to build hundreds of new dormitories as quickly as possible, the old, slow, unreliable firestopping materials — fire caulks — would make everything else slower as a result. When they found a faster, more reliable form of pre-formed firestop from Trim-Tex, they saw how this one change would make their entire project go faster.
Last time we took a look at this huge dorm-building project at a historic private university in Indiana, we spoke to the drywall crew used Trim-Tex’s Fire Bead to finish fire rated walls faster. Now, you’ll hear from the framers, who installed our Fire Gasket pre-drywall to supercharge the firestopping process.
