Maximising asset lifespan and ensuring grid resilience in fire-risk areas
Long Lasting Protection
Withstands Multiple Fires
SHIELDING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Wildfires, fuelled by brush, grass and other vegetation, cause billions of dollars in damage worldwide each year.
Their rapid spread and intense heat can consume anything in their path, including homes, infrastructure, and natural landscapes. Particularly devastating in certain regions, these fires wreak havoc on local ecosystems, wildlife, and valuable assets.
One of the major consequences of such fires is the destruction of power lines and utility poles, leading to widespread outages. The cost of repairing this critical infrastructure is significant, and the disruptions to power and telecommunications services can be especially severe for local communities, who are often most in need of these resources during the very natural disaster that caused the damage.
How to minimise fire damage
Polesaver Blaze-Guard™ is a tested and proven solution that protects wood utility poles against the damaging effects of wildfires. Made from a highly effective fire-proof fabric, utility testing proves that Blaze-Guard™ can withstand damage from multiple fires whilst still maintaining pole protection, ensuring your valuable utility poles remain operational.
Why Choose Blaze-Guard™?
Polesaver Blaze-Guard™ is a specially designed fire fabric that protects utility poles from bush, crop, grass, and wildfires — major causes of pole failure.
Proven Effectiveness
Highly effective and proven in volume use. Independently tested by a major African Utility company (Test Report Available)
Long Lasting Protection
Polesaver fire protection fabric is highly UV stable and weatherproof, providing effective long-term protection
Substantial Cost Savings
Our cost effective fire fabric gives substantial cost savings by significantly reducing the need to replace poles after wildfires and bush fires
Tough & Durable
Withstands multiple fires without requiring replacement
BLAZE-GUARD™ APPLICATION
On-site training, application videos, and an easy-to-use product combine to make Polesaver Blaze-Guard™ a natural choice should you require fire protection fabric.
Wrap Around
Blaze-Guard™ can be installed in minutes with minimal effort. To start the process, staple the fabric to the pole surface and then wrap it around the pole.
Staple
Once an overlap has been achieved, re-staple the outer layer of fabric to the existing layer of fabric. Trim excess material where required.
Repeat
To improve the level of protection you can then repeat this process above the first piece of Blaze-Guard™ to get increased protection height.
Polesaver Blaze-Guard™
Request independent reports on Blaze-Guard™ and its effectiveness, including comparison against alternative systems and a utility led full-scale field trial on 1000+ poles.
Polesaver manufactures and supplies guaranteed products that are proven to maximise utility pole lifespan. With millions of Rot-Guard™ sleeves supplied to date, our patented ground-line barrier sleeves have been proven in volume use since 1994.
*Polesaver uses long term independent test data on the effectiveness of barrier sleeves and fire protection fabric to reach all the conclusions given on this website (test data available on request). Based on this data, Polesaver believes longer life, maintenance of strength over time, improved safety and reliability, extended inspection periods and reduced maintenance requirements are reasonable claims. This is subject to Polesaver products being correctly applied as per our instructions and used on correctly preservative treated (for long term in-ground use - Use Class 4 or higher) wooden utility poles that are free of decay at the time of sleeve application. The claims made, real or implied are not warranties. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate and satisfy themselves that the performance of the product meets their specific safety, reliability, extended inspection, repair and any other performance or cost-benefit criteria before using Polesaver sleeves or fire protection fabric.
