rphproducts.com redesign · prototype review

Product selector decision logic

Three selectors, built as working prototypes. The first sits on a general page and routes a visitor to the right product across the whole catalog. The second sits on the VAULT® page and routes to a specific configuration — Standard, Pre-Engineered, or Custom. The third sits on the ENTRYPORT™ page and routes to a standard Wall Guard size or the custom team, returning RPH Exit Seals™ part numbers along the way.

Updated following the engineering review call. Terminology now uses Core Designs as the umbrella for the ENTRYPORT™, VAULT® and CYCLONE® lines; inside a line, products carry their own names — VAULT® Giga, VAULT® Mega and so on. The pre-engineered tier is no longer named publicly. Please review the questions, the answer options, and the outcome each path produces. Remaining open items are listed at the end.

Prepared for RPH · Prototype review · August 2026

Selector one

Which product is right for your project?

Rebuilt around the goal-based structure Jenna proposed. One to three questions, nine possible products. Two principles shape it: the four goals sit parallel to each other rather than nested, and a certification requirement decides which product leads rather than which products survive.

Goal-based main product selector decision tree A single goal question branches four ways. Roof protection asks about penetrant type then specification driver; wall protection asks the driver only; drain or vent asks what is being moved; egress resolves directly to the roof hatch. Roof Wall Drain Egress Duct or louver decides it What are you trying to do? What passes through? Round · duct · louver · mixed What drives the spec? Ranks, never eliminates What drives the spec? Ranks, never eliminates What are you moving? All CYCLONE® · no wind step Onto the roof Straight to a result VAULT® AW / AWI TAS · ASTM · 20-yr insured CYCLONE® Steel Housing CSH · ICC 500 · FEMA P-361 ENTRYPORT™ Wall Guard Multi-penetrant · 2 yr CYCLONE® Wall Shroud CWS · ICC 500 · FEMA P-361 CYCLONE® Roof Drain CRD CYCLONE® Overflow Drain COFRD · pairs with CRD CYCLONE® Vent Thru Roof CVTR CYCLONE® Downspout CWDS CYCLONE® Roof Hatch CRH · safe room egress Every result leads with one product and shows the alternative beneath it, with the difference stated in a line The visitor gets a steer; the specifier who wants to compare still can
Question Product Answer path Skips the next question
Why the wind question is gone. The earlier version asked “are there wind requirements?” and sent yes to CYCLONE®, no to VAULT®. That implied VAULT® has no wind rating. It does — the AW / AWI data sheet lists Florida Building Code FL47590.1-R0, TAS 201, 202 and 203, and ASTM E1886 and E1996, which is hurricane pressure cycling and windborne debris impact. The real distinction is that CYCLONE® is additionally tested to ICC 500 and FEMA P-361 for 250 mph with separate missile impact testing, which is occupant protection inside a storm shelter rather than envelope protection in a hurricane zone. A specifier on a Gulf Coast warehouse who answered “yes” was being routed away from the product built for their job.

Note Penetrant type is asked before the specification driver because it is the only answer that settles the question outright: square and rectangular ductwork is VAULT®-only, louvers and air intakes are CSH-only, and a specifier always knows which they have. Those two answers skip the second question entirely.

Drainage, venting and egress sit as sibling goals rather than beneath a “no” to roof protection. A roof drain, a vent through roof and a roof hatch are all penetrations through the roof, so a visitor who answers a roof question first would never reach them.

Four corrections from the engineering review

What changedWhy
The vent option now reads “venting for lavatories, urinals or water closets” The CYCLONE® Vent Through Roof is a sanitary vent — a Studor vent taken through the roof rather than left in the wall. It does not handle equipment exhaust, high heat or high velocity. The previous wording said “plumbing vent or exhaust,” which would have routed mechanical engineers to a product that cannot do the job.
The storm shelter result no longer offers an alternative VAULT® should not be specified for storm shelter use, and tornado and hurricane ratings are not interchangeable — one is cyclical wind loading, the other static, and they are separately tested. Every other path keeps its alternative.
Some second products are now shown as pairings, not alternatives The ENTRYPORT™ Wall Guard is a sealing device and the CYCLONE® Wall Shroud is a protection device; projects often fit the plate and cover it with a shroud. Primary and overflow roof drains are a required pair — the roof needs both. Presenting either as “also worth considering” understated the relationship.
Missile impact and wind rating are now two separate claims The missile is fired at 100 mph horizontally and 67 mph vertically; the wind rating to 250 mph is separate testing. The single “250+ mph with missile impact” chip conflated them.
For the October 16 legal review. The corrected certification wording — missile impact at 100 mph horizontal and 67 mph vertical, wind rated to 250 mph, as two distinct claims — should go into the legal packet rather than waiting for a later pass. These figures appear on every CYCLONE® result screen.
Selector two

Which VAULT® fits your project?

Lives on the VAULT® page and goes deeper: it names a stocked size — Giga, Mega, Medium or Small — confirms that a non-stocked size is one RPH builds, or collects a full specification for the custom team. Solid lines are the main path; dashed lines are the conditions that send a project to Custom.

VAULT configuration selector decision tree A thermal envelope question sets AW or AWI, then the visitor either enters known dimensions or is sized from penetrant diameter and line count. Both paths converge on a curb height question and resolve to a stocked size, a built-to-order size, or the custom intake form. No Yes Over 8.625" or duct Over capacity No size fits Another height Match Stocked size Built to order Insulated curb needed? Yes → AWI · No → AW Do you know the size? Chooses one of two paths Largest penetrant OD? 1.9" · 4.5" · 6.5" · over 8.625" Enter required L × W × H Matched against 32 configurations How many lines at that OD? Bands from Exit Seals™ capacity All the same diameter? Mixed → size shown, flagged Curb height needed? AWI 18/24" · AW 14/18/24" Custom VAULT® Full spec sent to the custom team Stocked VAULT® Giga · Mega · Medium · Small Built to order Confirmed by the team
Question Outcome Main path Routes to custom
Pre-engineered is now silent, not removed. RPH no longer promotes the tier, but the 28 sizes still exist — they have moved into a design log the sales team uses as preselected sizes, and none have been added since 2025. So the dimension match still runs. A hit on one of those sizes simply reports that RPH can build it and hands off to the team, without naming a tier. Nothing is lost but the label.

The two sizing paths exist because the published data supports them differently. Exit Seals™ capacity is given per penetrant diameter for the four stocked sizes only. So a visitor who knows their line count can be sized into a stocked unit, but reaching a non-stocked size requires knowing the dimensions.
Selector two · sizing rules

How line count maps to a VAULT® size

These bands come straight from the Exit Seals™ capacity table on the AW | AWI data sheet. This is the part most worth checking line by line.

Penetrant capacity, lines per unit
Largest ODSmallMediumMegaGigaBeyond
1.9"682840Custom
4.5"—18–1116Custom
6.5"——89Custom
Over 8.625"——VariableVariableCustom

The prototype uses the low end of Mega’s published 8–11 range at 4.5" OD. It always prefers a stocked size when both a stocked and a non-stocked size fit, since the stocked unit ships immediately. Anything over 8.625" OD, or ductwork, skips the count question entirely.

What sends a project to Custom

ConditionWhere it happens
Penetrants over 8.625" OD, or ductworkDiameter question
Line count above the largest published capacityCount question
No size accommodates the entered dimensionsDimension entry
Curb height other than 14", 18" or 24"Curb height question
AWI requested at 14" — not an offered combinationCurb height question
The custom intake form uses RPH’s own Custom Penetration Solutions question set — penetration types, total count, roof or wall placement, diameters, spacing tolerances, roof slope and unique conditions, Exit Seal OD sizes, and required lead time — plus contact details. Everything the visitor already answered is carried forward so nothing is asked twice.
Selector three

Which ENTRYPORT™ fits your project?

This one is shaped differently, because the product is. The ENTRYPORT™ Wall Guard has two outcomes rather than three — a stocked size or a custom build — and only two stocked sizes, so there is no reason to ask a visitor for dimensions. The Wall Guard is also the only released product in the line, so ceiling and below-grade applications are told so honestly rather than pushed toward a product that does not fit them.

ENTRYPORT Wall Guard selector decision tree The application question sends ceiling and below-grade penetrations to an in-development response, and exterior wall penetrations onward to a penetrant schedule builder and a special conditions question, resolving to one of the two standard Wall Guard sizes or a custom unit. Ceiling or below grade Exterior wall Within layout Exceeds layout Condition or 10000 series Where does it pass through? Exterior wall · Ceiling · Below grade In development Routed to the team Build the penetrant schedule Type, size and quantity per line Any special conditions? Depth · temp · non-round · finish Wall Guard 10" × 17" Model WV 1017 · from stock Wall Guard 24" × 36" Provisional — see note Custom Wall Guard Built to order · intake form
Question Outcome Main path Routes to the team
The middle step is not a question but a schedule builder. Because the RPH Exit Seals™ submittal form is a complete lookup — penetrant family, nominal size, outside diameter and part number — the selector can accept a real penetrant schedule and hand back the exact seal part numbers alongside the size recommendation. Three lines of 3/4" Copper ACR come back as seal 5070, 5000 series. For a specifier assembling a submittal, that is the difference between a marketing widget and a tool they will use twice.
Selector three · sizing rules

How the schedule maps to a Wall Guard

The seal series is derived from the part number, and the series determines capacity. These counts come from the sample layout panel printed on the submittal and data sheets.

RPH Exit Seals™ series and published Wall Guard capacity
SeriesPenetrant ODPublished capacityConstruction
50000.25" – 1.9"Up to 5Aluminum body, threaded connection
60002.125" – 3.125"Up to 2Stainless steel flange
70003.5" – 4.5"OneStainless steel flange
100005" and aboveNot offeredStainless steel flange

The lookup behind the schedule builder holds 57 penetrant sizes across five families — Copper ACR, Copper K&L, Steel Schedule 40, Electrical EMT, and Rigid / Aluminum / Liquid-Tight / PVC 40 & 80 — taken from the V6 June 2026 submittal form.

What sends a project to Custom

ConditionWhere it happens
Any penetrant needing a 10000-series seal, 5" OD or largerSchedule builder
Wall thickness or interstitial space needing non-standard depthConditions question
Penetrant temperatures outside −65°F to 450°FConditions question
Ductwork or other non-round penetrantsConditions question
A finish other than white powder coatConditions question
Ceiling or below-grade applicationApplication question
The ENTRYPORT™ Wall Guard is a sealing device, not a protection device: it consolidates penetrations through one opening but is not evaluated for missile impact or pressure loading. Where storm shelter protection is needed it is used together with the CYCLONE® Wall Shroud, which the main selector now states explicitly.

The custom intake mirrors the Custom ENTRYPORT™ Wall Guard submittal — project name and number, city and state, required size — plus the project team block from the Exit Seals submittal, which asks for architect, engineer and GC/MEP contractor. The penetrant schedule and any special conditions are carried through automatically, so the visitor only fills the gaps.
Open questions

What we still need from RPH engineering

Each of these is currently handled with a conservative default, so all three prototypes work today. Most are small changes once answered. The first ENTRYPORT™ item is the only one that genuinely limits what its selector can do.

Main selector

The review call confirmed the product list is exhaustive, the question count is about right, and product photography should stay out of the question steps — visitors using this tool generally do not know the products by sight. Because the CYCLONE® sub-products are each getting their own page, this selector can route straight to them and no separate CYCLONE® selector is needed. What remains:

  1. Final wording for the sanitary vent option. Currently “venting for lavatories, urinals or water closets,” with the result stating the product is not for equipment exhaust, high heat or high velocity. Confirm this reads correctly to a plumbing engineer.
  2. Do the wall products have penetrant-type restrictions? The roof branch asks what is passing through before anything else, because square duct and louvers settle the choice outright. The wall branch has no equivalent rule. If one wall product accepts something the other cannot, that question should be added.
  3. Smoke vent, when it releases. It sits under the drain-or-vent goal rather than becoming a fifth goal, which means that branch gains a sub-question asking what is being exhausted — sanitary venting to the CVTR, smoke to the new product. Built as a commented hook, ready to switch on.
  4. Does FEMA funding always mean ICC 500 and FEMA P-361? The selector treats a FEMA-funded building as pointing to the CYCLONE® line, in the same answer as storm shelter criteria. If that mapping is not always true, it needs its own question.

VAULT®

  1. How should a mixed-diameter bundle be sized? The capacity table assumes a single diameter throughout, but most real projects mix them. Right now a mixed run still returns a size, marked provisional, with “confirm with our team” as the primary action. If there is a derating rule we can apply it; if not, mixed runs can route straight to the team.
  2. In the size tables, is H the housing height or the overall height including curb? Curb heights of 14", 18" and 24" are treated as a separate spec from the L × W × H dimensions. If H is actually overall height, the dimension matching needs to account for curb height before comparing.
  3. Can the four stocked Standard sizes ship with sloped curbs? The sell sheet confirms sloped and not-sloped for the pre-engineered portfolio but says nothing about the stocked units. If slope is available across the board we can add it as a question; if it is pre-engineered and custom only, slope becomes another route to Custom.

ENTRYPORT™

  1. Which standard size does the published seal layout describe, and are the three series counts additive or alternative? The sample layout gives up to five 5000-series, up to two 6000-series, and one 7000-series seal — but never says whether that describes the 10" × 17" unit or the 24" × 36", and never says whether a single unit can hold five plus two plus one or whether those are three separate maximum layouts. Without this the selector cannot reliably choose between the two standard sizes. It currently assumes the layout describes the smaller unit, treats anything exceeding it as the larger unit marked provisional, and flags any mixed-series schedule for confirmation. This is the highest-value answer on the list.
  2. What is the model code for the 24" × 36" unit? The data sheet names Standard WV 1017 and CUSTOM. The larger standard size has no code in any of the collateral, so the selector currently shows it as pending.
  3. What wall thickness and assembly depth does the standard Wall Guard accommodate? The data sheet claims compatibility with varying wall thicknesses and interstitial spaces, but publishes only height and length — no depth dimension or range. Until there is one, any non-standard depth is treated as a route to Custom, which may be sending work to the custom team that a standard unit could have handled.
  4. Are there penetrant types the Wall Guard should refuse outright? The sell sheet lists ductwork as an ideal application, but every Exit Seal in the submittal form is round and tops out at 4.5" OD within the Wall Guard layout. The selector currently routes ductwork to Custom. Confirm that is right, or tell us what the duct path looks like.
One discrepancy still worth resolving in the collateral. The earlier GIGA configuration-count issue is now moot: it only mattered while the catalog was described publicly as three standard sizes plus 28 pre-engineered. With the pre-engineered tier off the public material, that count does not appear. One internal point remains — the data sheet’s testing section groups GIGA with the non-stocked units as FEA-verified rather than third-party tested, which is worth confirming since GIGA is a stocked size.

The live item is the ENTRYPORT™ warranty. Exhibit A gives the ENTRYPORT™ series a two-year limited warranty, and the sell sheet repeats it. The same sell sheet then says the RPH Exit Seals™ inside the Wall Guard are backed by twenty years, while also stating the seals are not sold separately and are fully integrated into the system. A specifier will ask which figure governs the assembly, and the selector needs to state one of them on the result screen.
One item for the content team, not engineering. Two removals for the downloads library. The brick lug downspout is no longer sold, but a “CYCLONE® Brick Lug Downspout Submittal” is still listed. And with the pre-engineered tier no longer promoted, the Pre-Engineered VAULT® sell sheet should come down alongside it. Both touch the downloads page and possibly the product pages, so they belong on the Master Tracker with the other live issues.

Separately, the ENTRYPORT™ submittal PDFs still read “Standard ENTRYPORT™ WALL GUARD.” Under the Core Designs naming those are being rewritten; worth tracking so the site and the submittals go live saying the same thing.

Every result screen carries the source document’s own caveat. For VAULT®, that product ratings do not replace project-specific engineering analysis and final selections must be verified by the project engineer. For ENTRYPORT™, that seal part numbers should be checked against the Exit Seals™ submittal form before release, and that bundled materials must be sleeved or separated to maintain sealing performance.