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Glidevale Protect FCM750 Floor Cassette Membrane - Floor cassette breather membrane

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BPD Building Product Design Ltd

Floor cassette membrane.

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Application

Specifically developed to provide a simple and practical solution for maintaining the integrity of the airtightness system at difficult intermediate floor junctions. 

Description

Glidevale Protect FCM750 has been specifically developed to provide a simple and practical solution for maintaining the integrity of the airtightness system at difficult intermediate floor junctions.


Features and benefits:

  • Highly vapour-permeable in excess of the minimum value required for wall membranes.
  • Completely water and airtight.
  • Lightweight and easy to install.
  • Can be used as temporary weather protection.
  • Available in practical 50 m rolls, in two widths, 0.75 m for standard floors, or 1.0 m-wide for deeper or acoustic floors.
  • Triple-ply construction with waterproof and vapour permeable core protected between two layers of nonwoven spunbond.

General information

Color

Grey

Guidance for specification option:

Grey upper surface with red printed logo.

Finish

Embossed

Material

Polypropylene

Shape

Rectangle

Guidance for specification option:

Supplied as a roll.

Length

50000 mm

Width

750 mm

1000 mm

Uniclass

Pr_25_57_10_94 Vapour-permeable sheetsPrimary

CAWS

P10/320 Breather membrane

P10/65 Breather membrane

Specification data - Vapour-permeable sheets

Standard

To BS EN 13859-1 / BS 5250.

Performance characteristics

Manufacturer's standard.

Manufacturer guidance

See individual properties below or manufacturer's literature for further details.

Class (minimum)

W1.

Guidance for specification option:

>2.0m hydrostatic head of water resistance to EN ISO 20811

Material

Polypropylene.

Guidance for specification option:

Triple ply construction with waterproof and vapour permeable core protected between two layers of nonwoven spunbond


Form

Non-woven.

Weight (minimum)

125 g/m².

Manufacturer guidance

See Roll width for roll weight.

Thickness (minimum)

0.60 mm.

Reflective face

No.

Execution

-

Manufacturer guidance

Floor cassette membrane to be wrapped round the floor cassette and lapped and taped onto the air tightness barrier of the timber frame wall to maintain the integrity of the air tightness system at difficult intermediate floor junctions.

Tear strength

Manufacturer's standard.

Guidance for specification option:

Nail tear strength to EN 12310-1 with mods.

  • Machine direction (MD; along roll): 140 N.
  • Cross direction (CD; across roll): 198 N.

TensileStrength

Manufacturer's standard.

Guidance for specification option:

Tensile strength to EN 12311-1 with mods.


Machine direction (MD; along roll):

  • Unaged: 225 N/50mm; aged: 190 N/50mm.

Cross direction (CD; across roll):

  • Unaged: 160 N/50mm; aged: 130 N/50mm.

Flexibility at low temperature

-40°C.

Water vapour resistance

0.17 MNs/g / 0.034 Sd.

Guidance for specification option:

To BS EN ISO 12572.

Roll width

750 mm.

Guidance for specification option:

Total area (50 m length): 37.5 m².

Roll weight: 4.91 kg.

1000 mm.

Guidance for specification option:

Total area (50 m length): 50 m².

Roll weight: 6.55 kg.

Roll length

50 m.

Sustainability data

Contains Red List materials

No

Country of product manufacture

United Kingdom

Material

Polypropylene

BIM objects

Platform Compatible Version
Revit
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1

Literature

Glidevale Protect FCM750

Glidevale Protect FCM750

Building Healthy Solutions for Offsite

Building Healthy Solutions for Offsite

Case studies

Mast Architects, Glasgow - Airtightness Project

Mast Architects, Glasgow - Airtightness Project