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Guidance Note FR5 External Timber Cladding and Fire Risk - guidance to amended Building Regulations
Publication Year
2022
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Guidance on the appropriate use of timber products as external cladding in the wake of the Grenfell Fire tragedy, highlighting amendments to Approved Documents B, and the treating of timber cladding with flame retardants.
Document History
Issue 3: July 2022. Supersedes Issue 2: September 2019. Supersedes WPA/FR/1218, issued December 2018.
Publisher Information
Wood Protection Association
The Wood Protection Association (WPA) is a not-for-profit timber trade organisation. The WPA champions and provides advice on industrial wood treatment technologies that enhance the performance of softwood products. Covering: preservative treatments, wood modification and factory applied flame retardant treatments.
Office 5
The Walled Garden
The Nostell Estate
Wakefield
WPA
UK
Website: https://www.thewpa.org.uk/
Email: contact@thewpa.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1977 558274
