Glass wall blocks

[Ashley Wood]

I am curious on something and hope that one of you guys may have some interesting ideas. I stayed at a hotel this weekend where they had fire doors dividing the corridors. To one side of the fire door was a strip of glass wall blocks, single block width from floor to ceiling. The hotel is 2 years old so nice and shiny new. The glass blocks had no BS stamp to indicate they were fire resistant and were not wired. My question is, will these provide sufficient compartmentation to match the fire door? Can these be used as a fire barrier?

[afterburner]

Ashley

try looking at http://www.glassblocks.co.uk/old/fireblocks/index.htm (which is only one product) but thay are fire rated

[Ashley Wood]

Thanks for that, very usefull.

[CivvyFSO]

On a seperate note, cross corridor doors are generally just to stop a bit of smoke, not a full-on fire.

[jokar]

That depends on the corridor of course.  In a protected corridor they will be FR doors, only in an unprotected corridor will they be FD20(S) doors.