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EMSHIELD WFR3  Fire Rated, Watertight, Sound Dampening, Primary Seal for Interior and Exterior Wall Expansion Joints
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EMSHIELD WFR3 Fire Rated, Watertight, Sound Dampening, Primary Seal for Interior and Exterior Wall Expansion Joints

EMSHIELD WFR3 is a watertight, fire-rated, dual-sided primary seal for both new and retrofit structural expansion joints in wall applications.

EMSHIELD WFR3 features dual-sided silicone sealing surfaces adhered to a fire-retardant impregnated foam backing and an intumescent bellows. Both sides of the expansion joint are water resistant and fire-rated.

As a single unit fire-rated expansion joint, EMSHIELD eliminates the need for additional fire stops at the joint gap thereby eliminating the need for multiple separate products that perform the roles of sealing, bridging and fire-rating joints--with EMSHIELD WFR3, one install does it all.

Can be used alone or under any other expansion joint cover, plate or filler where depth of substrate allows.

EMSHIELD WFR3 provides a watertight, clean handling, UV stable, non-staining, low-temperature-flexible, high-temperature-stable, watertight, energy-efficient and 3-hour UL 2079 fire-rated joint in a single installation process.

EMSHIELD WFR3 (Wall, Fire-Rated, 3-Hours) is part of the growing EMSHIELD family of fire-rated expansion joints being released by EMSEAL. WFR3 can be joined with EMSHIELD DFR2 and DFR3, EMSEAL's horizontal deck fire-rated expansion joints, to create a continuous, fire-rated watertight expansion system in both planes as well as at factory-fabricated or field-executed direction changes between the horizontal and vertical planes.

EMSHIELD WFR3 builds on EMSEAL's track record of over 30 years of innovation in sealing structural expansion joints with impregnated foam sealants and expands the comprehensive line of breakthrough, multi-function, structural expansion joint materials being released by EMSEAL.

EMSHIELD WFR3 has been tested and certified by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), to the rigors of UL 2079 and is manufactured under UL's Follow-Up Service--providing the assurance that the material supplied on your project is manufactured to the same standards of the product that was submitted for testing. ONLY FIRE-RATED EXPANSION JOINTS THAT HAVE BEEN UL 2079 TESTED AND CERTIFIED SHOULD BE USED IN A LIFE-SAFETY APPLICATION.

Where UL tested listings do not meet your specific project conditions ask EMSEAL for an engineered judgment. 

Features
• 3-hour Fire-Rated, UL & ULC Listed
• Sound Dampening
• Watertight
• Hurricane Resistant
• Air Barrier Compliant
• Non-Invasive Anchoring
• Installs rapidly in new or retrofit conditions
• Energy Efficient
• One product, one install does it all

Uses
• UL 2079 For Concrete, Masonry and Gypsum Walls
• Can be used alone or behind any joint covers
• Interior walls
• Exterior walls
• Suitable to all building types
• Stadiums and arenas
• Hospitals
• Military facilities
• Schools, colleges, and universities
• Airports
• Manufacturing, etc.

Standard Sizes
• 1/2" to 6" (12 - 150mm)

Note: Sizes under 1 1/2" (40mm) are manufactured with a single bellows. Larger sizes incorporate multiple bellows.

Product Depth for all sizes is 5-inches (125mm)

Movement Capability
• Total 50% (+25% and -25%) of nominal supplied size.

Colors
• 26 Standard COLORS
• Custom Colors

Technical specification
  • Unique ref.emseal-wfr3
  • Product familyFire Resistant Joint Sealants
  • Product groupEMSHIELD
  • TypeObject (single object)
  • Date of publishing2016-01-31
  • Edition number1
Related
  • Material mainSealant
  • Material secondaryFirm Foam
  • Designed inUnited States
  • Manufactured inCanada
Classification
  • BIMobject CategoryFire Products - Protection
  • IFC classificationFloor
  • Uniclass 2015 CodePr_35_90_27
  • Uniclass 2015 DescriptionExpansion joints
  • CSI MasterFormat 2014 Code07 95 00
  • CSI MasterFormat 2014 TitleExpansion Control
  • OmniClass Number23-13 31 21 19 11
  • OmniClass TitleExpansion and Contraction Joints
  • CSI UniFormat II CodeB2010
  • CSI UniFormat II TitleExterior Walls

Region availability

North America
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Barbados
Belize
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Canada
Caribbean Netherlands
Cayman Islands
Collectivity of Saint Martin
Costa Rica
Cuba
Curaçao
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Martinique
Mexico
Montserrat
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint-Barthélemy
Sint Maarten
The Bahamas
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
United States