Q: How do I know which Armstrong ceiling product meets the ASTM E1264 type, form and pattern classifications?
A: ASTM E 1264-98
Basis of Classification
Ceiling Types:
Type I - Cellulose base with painted finish
Type II - Celluluse base with membrane-faced overlay
Type III - Mineral base with painted finish
Form 1, Nodular (Cirrus, Fine Fissured #592, Fine Fissured Open Plan, Highspire, Natural Fissured, Sanserra, Stratus)
Form 2, Water felted (Armatuff, Classic, Cortega, Crossgate, Designer, Dune, Fine Fissured, Fissured, Georgian, Graphis, Tin
Craft, Tundra)
Form 3, Dry felted
Form 4, Cast or molded
Type IV - Mineral base with membrane-faced overlay
Form 1, Nodular
Form 2, Water felted (Clean Room Mylar, Clean Room VL, Ultima, VL perforated)
Form 3, Dry felted
Form 4, Cast or molded
Type V - Perforated steel facing (pan) with mineral or glass fiber base backing
Type VI - Perforated stainless steel facing with mineral of glass fiber base backing
Type VII - Perforated aluminum facing (pan) with mineral or glass fiber base backing
Type VIII - Cellulose base with scrubbable pigmented or clear finish
Type IX -Mineral base with scrubbable pigmented or clear finish
Form 1, Nodular
Form 2, Water felted - Cortega #761, Fine Fissured #1749 Form 3, Dry felted
Form 4, Cast or molded
Type X - Mineral base with plastic or aluminum membrane-faced overlay, or both
Type XI - Mineral base with fabric-faced overlay
Form 1, Nodular
Form 2, Water felted - Soft Look
Form 3, Dry felted
Form 4, Cast or molded
Type XII - Glass fiber base with membrane-faced overlay
Form 1, Plastic - Random Fissured, Pebble Open Plan, Shasta, Stonebrooke
Form 2, Cloth - Optima Open Plan, Optima Plank, Optima Vault, Optima Vector, Painted Nubby Open Plan
Form 3, Other
Type XIII - Aluminum or steel strip with mineral or fiber glass fiber base backing
Form 1, Perforated
Form 2, Non-perforated
Type XIV - Excelsior bonded with inorganic binders
Form 1, No backing
Form 2 , Backed with mineral fiber or glass fiber base backing
Type XX - Other types (describe)
Ceramaguard (high density ceramic-like) composition with scrubbable finish
Fine Fissured Ceramaguard (high density ceramic-like) composition with scrubbable finish
MetalWorks Plank nonperforated (Nonacoustical steel panel)
MetalWorks Plank microperforated (microperforated steel panel)
MetalWorks Vault nonperforated (Nonacoustical aluminum panel)
MetalWorks Vault perforated (Perforated aluminum panel)
MetalWorks Vector nonperforated (Nonacoustical steel ceiling panel)
MetalWorks Vector Microperforated (Perforated steel ceiling panel)
Ceiling Patterns
| Pattern Designation |
Pattern Description |
| A |
Perforated, regularly spaced large holes
A: MetalWorks Vector perforated
|
| B |
Perforated, randomly spaced large holes |
| C |
Perforated, small holes
C: Classic, MetalWorks Plank microperforated, MetalWorks Vault microperforated
CD: Cortega, Fissured, Natural Fissured
CDK: Cortega Second Look
CE: Armatuff, Dune, Fine Fissured, Fine Fissured Ceramaguard, Fine Fissured Open Plan, Georgian, Tundra, VL perforated
CEK: Fine Fissured Fine Look, Fine Fissured Second Look, Dune Second Look
|
| D |
Fissured |
| E |
Lightly textured
E: Clean Room VL, Random Fissured and Shasta (nonperf), Painted Nubby Open Plan, Stonebrooke, Ultima, Optima Open Plan, Optima
Plank, Optima Vault
EC: Random Fissured, Shasta (perf), Pebble Open Plan
EI: Cirrus
EIC: Cirrus Open Plan
EIK: Cirrus Second Look and scored products
EIKZ: Cirrus Borders, Cirrus Grid Accents, Cirrus Themes
EJ: Cirrus Classic Motifs
|
| F |
Heavily textured F: Stratus, Designer FK: Designer Second Look |
| G |
Smooth
G: Ceramaguard, MetalWorks Vector nonperforated, MetalWorks Plank nonperforated, MetalWorks Vault nonperforated
GA: Cassettes perforated
GH: Clean Room Mylar
|
| H |
Printed |
| I |
Embossed |
| J |
Embossed-in-register
J: Highspire, Sanserra
JZ: Graphis, TinCraft (classic embossed tin ceiling design)
|
| K |
Surface scored |
| L |
Random swirl |
| Z |
Other patterns, describe
Z: Crossgate (cubic and linear rilled), Soft Look (nonwoven fabric finish)
|
Flame Spread Classification
| Classification
|
Flame Spread
|
Smoke Developed
|
| Class A |
0-25 |
0-50 |
| Class B |
26-75 |
|
| Class B |
76-200 |
|
| Class D |
201- |
|
* All Armstrong ceiling products have a Class A flame spread rating
ASTM Information
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Phone: 610 832 9500
Fax: 610 832 9555
Website: www.astm.org
*All ASTM documents should be requested directly through ASTM
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