Has anyone had issues with C1D1 rooms that say they have proper fire ratings. But they don’t. That’s a big deal in this industry.
@potguru1 We get asked often if having fire rated walls on your extraction booth is necessary and the answer is usually no, unless your local municipality requires this rating. Your standard extraction booth, as long as it is built three feet from any other operation or wall, can be 18 gauge sheet metal.
However! Fire rated extraction booths may be your solution to increasing your solvent limits without expensive engineering, labor and materials. Control areas are built when the building area exceeds the maximum allowed quantities of solvent (MAQ). Your MAQs are defined by the building type and a couple characteristics such as fire suppression and solvent storage, for example. A control area is designed to multiply your maximum allowed solvents by separating a chosen area from the rest of the building with fire walls. This separation actually allows you to have multiple ares inside your building that reach the MAQ. A F-1 occupancy building (standard manufacturing building) can have (4) control areas on the first floor of the building, each with it’s own separate maximum allowed quantities of solvent.Therefore, you could potentially have (4) areas with 480 gallons of ethanol, in a F1 occupancy building without having to build any additional fire walls. This is a huge advancement in the extraction booth tech and is patented by C1D1 Labs LLC!
**Our advice is to use a FPE to understand what you need before ordering 
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It looks like quite a few municipalities and states are asking for H2 or H3 ratings. I also understand that C1D2 is no more as of 2020 in California. I have been building extraction facilities that require large amounts of solvents and or different kinds of solvents. Quite a few of my rooms are outside labs or free standing. F1is a standard rating used by smaller operations. By rating the walls you have more flexibility and easier plan check times with the cities and fire departments.
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Um what. You’re claiming you patented the idea that if your unit has fire rated walls it can be counted as a control area? That’s not even an idea. It’s right in the building code.
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No sir, while we advertise the advantage of our patent, the actual construction, applicable use of our panels, the explosion proof equipment, in addition to our control panel functionality makes up our patent. We can also construct 2 and 3 hour walls. We suggest a higher rating on the ceiling of your room, as well. We are here ultimately to help some of the OGs level up together, and gain a good minded, and a good hearted market share… and that means not buying the buildings for sale (h occupancy) and doing TI’s on F1’s for a lot of our clients. While we work with international companies and “ground up” H occupancy buildings on a regular basis, who have back up engineers for their engineers, our solutions for the F1’s still have more traction to the GLG community… for most people who can’t buy a H occupancy building on their first go at the industry . We have solutions for anyone and any size, and we can help you find out what you need with in depth fire protection engineering reports for F or H occupancy buildings. Go big, we support you 
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Patents are often defined as the “ah haaa” moment. We had that after developing around 40 facilities that had a “box in a box” design with fire walls around the booth when exceeding F1 control area MAQ’s. It was only after our clients failed at their own architectural and engineering that we had to offer these fire protection, mechanical, electrical, structural and plumbing services. This is how innovation develops and is patented. The only reason we got the ability to innovate this is educating municipalities and business on these standards and having a product in that niche. Innovations can be “tracked and traced”. Court cases on these patents are won on these grounds, because blood sweat and tears develop innovation. Every real ganjapreneur has their own story, this is the tail of ours haha.
We now share an educational pdf labeled “Fire Rated Booths” with every template introduction email so that all of our clients are informed of fire ratings. Education is the solution. all love my friend
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