Importance of BAL Rating For Calculated Risk in Bushfire Prone Zone
Building or renovating a new home in a bushfire prone can be a nightmare, especially when choosing the building products and materials. In these areas it become essential to keep in mind that not only the construction of windows, roofing, guttering, doors as well as cladding should meet your family requirements, but, at the same time must meet the standard of construction requirement for the bushfire prone areas. Hence, in order to choose the building products, it becomes essential that the products must comply with the BAL ratings. The levels of bushfire attack are given to the properties that are basically located in the bushfire risk areas. Hence, higher the number, higher the bushfire risk. BAL 40 means high risk area, BAL 12.5 means lower end of bushfire risk, BAL FZ means total flame zone area and are at the extreme risk of bushfire attack. In order to assess the areas’ BAL rating , following points need to be confirmed: Type of fire hazard Distance of site from the fire hazard ...