The Brilliant Ideas Instant Pipe Shutter is a reusable, easy, quick and safe alternative to traditional shuttering methods.
This unique device is the winner of the Concrete Innovation Award for Excellence. It’s a two-piece, strong thin plastic that fits snugly around service pipes. By clipping it into place, it provides shuttering to the complete circumference of the pipe, ready for infilling with concrete.
Instant Pipe Shutter: £3.00 each (exc VAT)
Based on full boxes of 45 number and excludes delivery
Service holes in pre-cast concrete or in-situ concrete floors are formed oversize to make sure there’s enough clearance for pipes to be installed at a later date. After the service pipes have been installed, the Principal Contractor is left with the task of fire stopping and shuttering the formed hole.
Common practice is to fix timber boarding flush with the surface of the floor. This involves cutting a board to size, cutting circles to fit around the pipes, drilling holes and fixing with screws. Shuttering around a soil pipe is difficult and time-consuming and often involves working off a ladder. It’s a slow and expensive process.
The Brilliant Ideas Instant Pipe Shutter solves all of these issues.
Robust Details
When building in accordance with Robust Details, it states that all voids around pipe should be sealed. The instant pipe shutter enables full depth seal, which complies with these requirements.
In accordance with Volume 1, B3 Internal Fire Spread (Structure)
Construction of compartment walls and compartment floors
General provisions
5.8 All compartment walls and compartment floors should achieve both of the following.
a. Form a complete barrier to fire between the compartments they separate.
Section 9: Protection of Openings and Fire-Stopping
Openings for Pipes
Alternative A: Proprietary Seals (any pipe diameter)
9.3 Provide a proprietary, tested sealing system that will maintain the fire resistance of the wall, floor or cavity barrier.
Section 8: Compartmentation/Sprinklers
Provision of compartmentation
All Purpose Groups
8.4 Effective compartmentation relies on both of the following.
b. Any openings between two compartments should not reduce the fire resistance.
Construction of compartment walls and compartment floors
General provisions
8.15 All compartment walls and compartment floors should achieve both of the following.
a. Form a complete barrier to fire between the compartments they separate.
