WEST TRENTON, NJ – The originators of nailbase roof insulation have
received Factory Mutual® approval for using its “green” nailbase roof
insulation, N.C.F.R.® Thermasote®, on steel roof decks.
The first nailbase roof insulation, Thermasote,
was developed seven decades ago by America’s leading green building
manufacturer, Homasote Company. Now, N.C.F.R. Thermasote -- a 4’ x 8’
panel of Class A, N.C.F.R. board bonded to rigid Polyisocyanurate
insulation -- has received FM’s steel deck approval.
“Steel
decks are becoming the roofs of choice for multi-story, multi-family,
mixed use, commercial and other construction for a host of good
reasons. Now architects and builders can add outstanding insulation to
roof assemblies with our FM®-approved, time-tested green product,”
Homasote Company CEO Warren Flicker said.
The FM Standard
Listing for Class 1 Steel Deck Roofs, Class Number 4450 documentation
is now available online to architects and specifiers via FM's RoofNav
Web site, http://roofnav.fmglobal.com/roofnav/login.aspx and will be
published in future hard-copy manuals, Flicker said.
The
approval, granted last month, replaces a previous FM listing that
restricted N.C.F.R. Thermasote to concrete roof decks, a rarely
specified construction method, Flicker noted.
“Architects
and builders who need to meet code in wind-prone areas will be happy to
know that an additional simulated wind uplift test also was performed
in this classification and N.C.F.R. Thermasote achieved a Class 1-105
windstorm classification,” Flicker said.
This wind result,
along with a July 2006 UL®-tested wind uplift classification of 1-135
provides independently measured proof that Homasote roof products meet
code in wind prone areas, Flicker added
For more
information about Homasote Company’s LEED-centric products visit
www.homasote.com or call Gordon Pealock, Director of sales and
marketing, at 800-257-9491 Ext. 1211 or e-mail gpealock@homasote.com.
