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Intumescent Painters Ary Fire

Is a Intumescent fire coating specialist applicator of products designed to provide passive fire protection to various surfaces. It is a type of paint that expands when exposed to high temperatures, forming a protective layer that insulates the underlying material from heat and flames. This coating is commonly used in commercial and residential buildings, as well as in industrial settings, to enhance fire safety measures. It can be applied to structural steel, wood, concrete, and other substrates, effectively increasing their fire resistance and delaying the spread of fire. Intumescent fire coating is an essential component of fireproofing systems, offering a reliable and cost-effective solution to mitigate the risk of fire damage.

ARY FIRE is a Dulux Accredited and Taubmans Certified painting service provider with over 70 years of experience in the industry. They specialize in intumescent coatings and fire-rated product applications throughout New South Wales . The company is one of the few approved applicators of fire protective and fire retardant coatings accredited by intumescent paint suppliers .

In addition to applying these fire protection systems, they also certify them . ARY FIRE has completed and certified jobs across NSW, including cable coatings for mines, up to 120 minute ratings for steelwork, and installing coatings to plasterboard ceiling, walls, and doors .

Intumescent Painters Ary Fire

Intumescent paints are coatings that expand to insulate the surface they are applied to in the event of a fire. They can be applied to many building elements, providing fire rating times ranging from 30 minutes to 120 minutes1.

ARY FIRE is an accredited applicator for several companies such as NULLIFIRE, FIRESHIELD, EXFIRE, CAP, PROMAT and FIRE-TEX, all of which specialize in fire retardant coatings for various substrates including steelwork, plasterboard, timber, cabling, doors, pressed metal and more.

Intumescent paints are often referred to as fire retardants or mistakenly called fireproof paints. They are designed to swell and form a protective “char” when exposed to extreme heat such as a fire. This char is a poor conductor of heat and while it does not make the steel it is applied to fireproof, it protects the surface for an increased time from the destruction that fire may otherwise cause.

Typically, intumescent paints are applied to structural steel to ensure that in the event of a fire, the steel does not warp as quickly as it would otherwise. This allows fire crews more time to extinguish the flames

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The safeguarding of lives and property in the event of a fire is of utmost importance in contemporary society. With the increasing prevalence of buildings exceeding 20 meters in height, the significance of fire protection, particularly structural fire protection, has grown substantially. Recent fire tragedies in Sydney and Canberra, exemplified by the devastating “10th alarm” status, signalling the most severe type of fire.

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Flame Retardant Intumescent Coatings Fluid and Workable

PPG Sigma Steelguard 851 is a one component, thin film, intumescent coating which gives structural steel 120 minutes of protection against cellulosic fires.

Steelguard 851 is solvent based but it is quick drying and is suitable for C1 and C2 internal environments (ISO 12944). No topcoat is required for dry internal (C1) environments. It is good for off-site and on-site application in an industrial environment. Steelguard 851 is weather resistant for up to 12 months without a topcoat, provided the coating is applied in accordance with information sheet 1222 and is not subject to running or pooling water, high humidity or immersion conditions.

Steelguard 851 can be applied at up to 1000 microns DFT in a single coat and comes in a white, matt finish.

Application (at 20C):

• Stir well before use

• Apply with airless spray (brush or roller for small areas only)

• Touch dry: 20 minutes

• Recoatable: 4 hours

• Coverage: 1.07m2 per litre at 700 microns

• Volume solids: 75%

• Recommended dry film thickness: 200-1000 microns per coat

• Recommended thinner: tap water (normally no thinner required)

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Fireshell® F1E is an exterior, waterborne, non hazardous, self priming, flexible intumescent coating.

Fireshell® provides an ignition and flame spread barrier on external combustible surfaces and achieves AS3959:2018 bushfire resting timber compliance including accelerated weathering on softwoods and non-compliant hardwoods in BAL12.5, BAL19 & BAL29 areas. Fireshell® F1E is ISO 5660 compliant for external timber cladding and utilised for a range of risk reduction solutions for external combustible surfaces.

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Cafco SPRAYFILM® WB3 is a water based intumescent coating consisting of polyvinyl acetate resins and fillers for the fire protection of structural steel. It is preferably spray applied with airless paint equipment for speed and quality of finish. Brush and roller application is also possible.

Cafco SPRAYFILM® WB3 can be sealed and protected with a decorative top coat. Cafco SPRAYFILM® WB3 is applied directly to the contour of primed I and H section columns, angles, channels and beams and both square and circular hollow sections, to provide fire protection for up to FRL 120/-/- in accordance with AS1530.4: 2014 & AS4100. In a fire, a chemical reaction takes place causing the Cafco SPRAYFILM® WB3 to expand and form an insulating layer which slows the temperature of the steel rising to a critical level. (Figure 3).

CAP508

CAP508 is an intumescent water based low VOC paint system that offers cost effective non destructive fire rated solutions for plasterboard, fibrous plaster, lath and plaster, fibre cement sheet, asbestos sheet, pressed metal, timber, polyurethane foam and concrete.

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Fireshield® offers clear, whitewash and pigmented fire rated coating systems for the protection of interior timber substrates providing a compliant Group Surface Rating and for structural timber char rate reduction.

Steel 1001 is used to fire rate existing historical timber and for CLT encapsulation.

TimberClear

Fireshield® TimberClear is a more waterborne intumescent basecoat for the protection of interior timber surfaces to Group 1-S/Group 1 and structural timber members up to 60 minutes FRR from cellulosic fires in interior dry environments. It must be used with TimberClear Top Coat as part of the full system

TimberClear Top Coat Matt

Fireshield® TimberClear Top Coat Matt is a clear, solvent based topcoat, designed for use over Fireshield TimberClear intumescent basecoat

TimberClear Top Coat Semi Gloss

Fireshield® TimberClear Top Coat Matt is a clear, solvent based topcoat, designed for use over Fireshield TimberClear intumescent basecoat

TimberWhite

Fireshield® TimberWhite is a more environmentally friendly waterborne intumescent coating for the protection of interior timber surfaces to Group 1-S/Group 1 and structural timber members up to 60 minutes FRR from cellulosic fires in dry interior environments.

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