What a Class A Fire-Rated Synthetic Roof Can do for Your Customer’s Home

By DaVinci Roofscapes.

Help homeowners avoid disaster and protect their homes by choosing a synthetic roof.

A real cedar roof may look good on the outside, but in high-drought conditions it is one lightning strike away from a devastating fire. Fortunately, your customers have options for protecting their homes from fire. They can choose synthetic shake or slate roofing materials with a Class A fire-rating from DaVinci Roofscapes.

Share this article with your customers to help them understand fire ratings and why DaVinci Roofscapes composite roofing material will not burn.

Class A roofing

There are three tests all DaVinci synthetic roofing materials undertake to achieve the Class A Fire Rating. These include:

1. Intermittent Flame Test – an assembly of tiles is subjected to an intense flame for two minutes then turned off for two minutes. This is cycled 15 times to see if there is failure in the roof deck.

2. Spread of Flame Test – flame and air current are applied for 10 consecutive minutes and then checked for failure.

3. Burning Brand Test – a burning brand is placed on an assembly of roofing tiles with a high volume of wind behind it. The decking of the assembly is constantly monitored for 90 minutes to see if any fire burns through. If fire burns through the roof deck anytime during the 90-minute trial, the tiles fail. (Watch a simulated test)

Head of the Class…Class A

Roof fire ratings are established by test methods to ensure that certain standards are formalized to protect human life and property.

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard E108 is one such test method for roofing standards. This organization rates materials and classifies them as a Class A, Class B or Class C Fire rating through this method.

Class A is the highest, whereas Class C is the lowest. A roofing product that has a Class A Fire rating meets all three requirements which are: ability to resist spreading of flames on surface, ability to resist fire penetration from the exterior to the underside of the rock deck and ability to resist recurring intermittent flame.

When you are told a roof has a Class A Fire Rating, it means that the product has successfully undergone these three tests. Always remember that Class A roofing is the best classification available.

DaVinci products have undergone extensive fire testing using the ASTM E 108 test standard at the Class A level to assure you have the best roofing product available.

Worry about fires, really?

Yes, really. It could happen to your neighborhood and to your home.

Remember the massive wildfires of 2018? The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) reports there were 58,083 wildfires in 2018 in the U.S., burning a total of 8,767,492 acres.

More than halfway into 2020, the National Year-to-Date Report on Fires and Acres Burned shows that more than 32,000 wildfires have burned so far in the U.S. during 2020. The same study shows that 2.1 million acres of land have already been lost to wildfires this year.

And remember, it’s not that a fire has to be in your specific area. A spark from a wildfire can travel up to a mile in windy conditions. That one spark could be fatal if you have a real wood roof. However, that same spark turns into a “nonevent” when you have a Class A rated synthetic shake or slate roof overhead.

Learn more about roofs and fire from the National Fire Protection Association.

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Original article source: DaVinci Roofscapes