this is what happened to a lot of people
in the California players they expected
it to be protected their stuff and it
wasn't what we hate to hear is consumers
buy these things and then all of a
sudden have a disaster and everything's
lost you end up with this look at the
the crack here in that drywall that's
two pieces of drywall how are you gonna
stop that heat from going through there
so your advice to consumers is look for
that UL notebook for that you all label
and if you don't see it then buy
something that adds it buy something
else
yeah what is this right here what are we
standing in front of people at home who
don't get a chance to see us we are
going to do a what's called a UL class
72 fire test we will heat these file
this file up to 1700 degrees it has to
maintain 350 degrees or less interior
temperature this is au all rated product
this is a non ul rated product so we're
gonna do a comparison and see how this
performs against are you already product
so that's another that is an oven right
now we will follow the UL curve which
will be at 30 minutes we will be at 1550
degrees and at 60 minutes will be at
1700 degrees how does that temperature
compared to a typical house fire a
typical fire burns at about 1200 degrees
so we haven't even gotten to the
temperature of a house entire and that's
already failed its failed it failed
miserably we were going to do a one-hour
ul test and we ended up doing a half
hour yeah because that's what this
cabinet was rated for a half hour at
1,200 degrees so it failed about four
and a half minutes into the test which
is really disappointing four and a half
minutes or an hour 30 minutes say how
come and you think that is I think it's
very common because as you can see we're
using they're using drywall it just
can't insulate the product like they
claimed it will so what you're saying is
the heat just comes right through that
crack you just can't have any leaks for
lack of a better term where heat can
come through at four and a half minutes
into the test we were well over 450
degrees and everything burst into flames
inside
nothing's gonna survive that nothing
nothing no the product that was sitting
right next to it was a ul rated product
it stayed under 220 degrees ul will not
put that label on something if it's not
going to work this is our standard fire
king file it has a ul what they call you
of class 72 one hour fire rating now we
burn this for a half an hour today so we
went to 1550 degrees we hit about what
220 220 degree interior temperature and
that just leveled out we are in the fire
King factory in New Albany Indiana and
this is where we build all of these
products for all american-made we feel
very strongly about the UL ratings it's
expensive to build for the UL standard
but it is also the consumers assurance
that that product will do what it says
it will do fire resistant fireproof I
don't know if people really know the
difference between that but after
watching your story we have decided that
we will go to fire resistant and not say
fireproof at the end of the day if the
consumers being misled then you didn't
do it make a right