Why Not?????

  products are non-toxic, formulations that prevent flames from starting or spreading by a chemically self-extinguishing action.

Why I call furniture "Fire Load" Click here

Why Wouldn't You protect your family by:

• Keeping aExtinguishing Towel in the kitchen.
• Keeping aExtinguishing Towel in your car.
• Treating your child's room, the curtains, the dust ruffle on a girls bed, the straw doll hanging as decoration and flammable materials with for Fabric. Kids play with matches every day in this world.
• Treating the curtains in your kitchen withfor Fabric..
• Treating the couch and stuffed chair with for Fabric..
• Treating the hearth rug with for Fabric..
   
• Treating the undersides of your kitchen cabinets with for Wood either Class "A" or Class "B".
• Treating the roof withfor Wood Class "A".
• While building your new house, treating it with for Wood Class "A" or "B".

Why wouldn't you?

  In most cases the answer will always be COST.
But even a little now and a little then is better than nothing at all.
All of our products can be purchased a quart or a gallon at a time!

  You mean that less than $25 for a quart offor Fabric is more than your family is worth!!!
  Buy a quart now and treat the children's room, then buy a quart next month and move to another room. The product doesn't have to be reapplied until you clean the item that you treated. In a few months the whole house can be 'flame resistant'.
So Why Wouldn't you at least protect the childrens room?

  You live in a wild fire area, and you're willing to do nothing to protect your house!! I can't believe that!
  At 260 square feet per gallon of coverage, it would only take between five and 15 gallons of Class "A" for Wood to treat your roof.
  Embers coming off a wild fire are the most common ignition source for homes, in a wild fire situation.for Wood Class "A" will prevent the roof from igniting for a very long time (hopefully long enough for the structure to be saved). If it does ignite, it will greatly reduce the spreading of the fire and slow it down (maybe long enough for the firefighters to extinguish it before significant damage).
  Oh, I see. Your $150,000 to $500,000 or more house isn't worth putting a couple of hundred dollars into to save it!
So Why Wouldn't you at least treat the roof?

  You are responsible for dorm rooms, common areas, auditoriums and general meeting places. Why wouldn't you treat these areas?
  Every year, we read about college students being killed in a dorm fire. Every year they investigate to see what can be done. Every year, they overlook using flame retardants and preventing the fire in the first place!
  A properly treated dorm room probably won't let the fire get started in the first place, and if it does, it will slow down the burn rate to allow even impaired persons time to evacuate.

So tell me: Why Wouldn't you protect the people (who's safety you have been entrusted with) by treating the areas that can and should be flame protected?

Furniture = Fire Load

Remember when you were a scout, or when ever you were taught to build a campfire? You teacher said that by making a tee-pee of small sticks, it would light faster. You needed lots of surface area to put heat on (and get oxygen to) to get the fire to light..  

Now look at most new houses under construction, you can plainly see the similarities. A house in the framing stage adds the additional accelerant of a roof to keep the heat in while the fire builds.

 Now you move in your furniture, draperies and linen , you have just added the final ingredient for a potential tragedy, the Fire Load.

   Your typical house has sheetrock walls and ceiling (won't burn). It may have a wood floor, but fire burns up, not down. So what's to burn in your house? The Furniture and accessories, that's what! If the contents burns long enough, the house will probably catch fire, but initially, it's the contents (fire load) that burns.

You should have  insurance to help replace MOST of the things you could lose in a fire, but what about those things that are not replaceable or have a great sentimental value? A human life, or even the life of a pet! Wedding pictures, baby pictures, family heirlooms and other items that monetary reimbursement won't cover?

 Now, our products, properly applied,  CAN and WILL prevent a fire from ever getting started.  Remember, a fire that never starts, is the easiest to control. Should it get started, our products will slow it down, giving you more time to escape and more time for firefighters to fight it.

 Upholstered furniture is still the “leading burnable product first involved in fatal fires in the US” according to the US National Fire Protection Association.

  Fire in upholstered furniture (18.2% of all home fire deaths for the 1993-97 time frame) the biggest single cause of deaths in the US, ahead of bedding and mattresses (counted together) with 15.3%. During that time frame, fires originating in upholstered furniture caused 658 civilian deaths in home fires.

  Upholstered furniture contributes to fire deaths not only when it is the actual source of the fire, but it also contributes when it provides fuel for the fire that started elsewhere. Obviously, the upholstered furniture is the largest 'fire load' in living rooms, where about 30% of deaths occur due to fire.

  How many lives would be saved by making the fire load, not a fire load? (treat with FlameTard to make it so!)

  The NFPA estimates
      434 per year due to cigarettes in furniture
      97 by making furniture resistant to small open flames
      Over 1500 by slowing down the spread to allow for escape
     

  The statistics above are summarized from an article in the NFPA Journal. in 2001. Go to www.nfpa.org to find and read the entire article.