Once a seal breaks down it allows heat and smoke to enter in through the door gap.
Gun safe door seal.
The door of the safe would need to fit the door frame of the safe body exactly the same every time in order for there to be no air gaps.
No matter how thick the door a few minutes with a large pry bar or a even a 20 edge grinder may be enough to break in to many residential vaults.
The theory behind this product is that it swells to 7x it s size when subjected to heat and seals your safe from the steam water vapors.
Suitable for use around the perimeter of safe doors this selection of products comprises products for fire containment with some offering smoke and draft containment too.
Etc that may get into your safe during a fire your safe might be fire rated for xx degrees but not water vapor proof the article showed what happens to firearms when subjected to this and within a few hours all were rusted.
It doesn t matter who manufactures the safe one gasket does not fit all safes perfectly.
What makes palusol so effective is that it maintains its expanded.
This is a perfect product to seal the perimeter of fire resistant systems such as doors shutters dampers cabinets safes and wall penetrating cables.
A cold seal or smoke seal is critical because it works all the time before the expanding seal actually expands.
Buy a gun safe with a door that fits well and which has two seals.
Using a cheap door seal there are a lot of different seals on the market today.
Effective fire seal some manufacturers use cheaper door seals to save money.
Gaskets for safes lorient s expertise in smoke and fire containment for door assemblies is also available in these products for safes.
We ve tried them all.
These are custom built safes and each one is different depending on size color lock type interior options etc.
None work as well as palusol the best heat expanding fire seal on the market today by far.
The palusol door seal is a specific size about the thickness of 2 dimes.
Fire protection for category a fire rated wood doors.
Obvious vault doors can be defeated.
There are some that expand and fill in the door gap but when temperatures reach 1000 degrees or more those seals break down and fall apart.
Pictured above is the frame of a fort knox defender.
Palusol fire seal is available as fire seal or as a combination fire hot cold smoke seal.
Some safes may take longer than the listed ship by date.
Build time is an estimate.
The palusol fire seal expands to 7 times its size when temperatures reach 212 degrees sealing off both heat and smoke.
