The burning question: Is your home fireproof?
Heather Ainsley
news@greenepublishing.com
The short answer is no. It is simply not possible to fully fireproof a home, even a very modern one.
While it isn't possible to build a standard home that is completely impervious to flames, there are several ways that a house can be built to be fire resistant. The first way to do this is most obvious; use fire-resistant materials. Building codes and modern material testing standards use four main terms to describe how well or how poorly a specific
