This Guide is a compendium of some of the best firestop planning and installation advice received and evaluated by the committee, which was generously offered by many within and outside the ASTM committee.

Every tradesperson or firestop specialty contractor who has had to install firestopping on repeated occasions has learned something in the process that would help the next job go better. Such accumulated wisdom and accumulated experience should result in  a higher quality and lower cost installation on subsequent jobs that would also have less probability of being deemed unacceptable during inspection. However, every installer learns from his/her particular experience. This Guide aims to create an accumulation of such knowledge in one place, readily available to anyone needing to do such work in the future. Why make mistakes with such an important life-safety feature when a Guide can help you avoid the rookie mistakes?