There is an increasing use of cross laminated timber (CLT) in the building sector. CLT is a wood panel product made from layers of solid lumber boards. Each layer of boards is oriented perpendicular to adjacent layers and glued on the wide faces of each board. It has been recognised that different adhesive systems have different behaviour in fire; especially that delamination behaviour of CLT can be avoided by choosing a suitable adhesive system. The best method for evaluation of the delamination is a full‐scale fire test, but considering the high costs of such tests, it is of the utmost importance to develop small‐scale methods for evaluating the adhesive bond properties in fire. The intention is that such small‐scale methods should provide the same results as full‐scale tests. A new, smaller scale method for classifying adhesives with respect to fire properties would also simplify the planning of full scale tests. Previous tested small‐scale method for evaluation of finger joints is presented in (1). In this study, a small‐scale fire test methodology for evaluation of CLT adhesive bond performance in fire is introduced (2). The aim was to demonstrate an easy tool to distinguish between fire resistant adhesive bonds and non‐fire‐resistant bonds, especially with respect to delamination. The cone heater of a cone calorimeter was used to carry out the tests. Cone calorimeter in accordance with ISO 5660 is one of the most widely used bench‐scale instrument in fire research. This small‐scale device has several advantages over larger‐scale tests thanks to its fast, simple and cost‐efficient manner to investigate basic material properties.