Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Addington, Greater London
Fire stopping in Addington, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
Need fire stopping in Addington?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
FAQs: Addington
Can you work on a hospital site such as Bethlem Royal Hospital?
Yes, hospitals are one of the sectors we cover. We follow the site’s permits, sign-in and infection-control procedures in every area.
Can you work in a care home near Addington with residents in?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. We follow the home’s own procedures throughout.
Do you certify or sign off fire stopping?
No. Sign-off isn’t ours to give, and we don’t hold a third-party installer certificate. We work to the specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance.
Will you come and look before quoting?
Many jobs can be quoted from photos, drawings or a joint schedule. Where they aren’t, we arrange a site visit.
Is fire stopping in Scotland covered by different guidance?
Scotland sets its own building regulations, with Technical Handbooks, and England uses Approved Document B. Wherever the site is, our work follows the specification and the tested detail.
Do you design or specify fire stopping?
No. Deciding what is needed sits with the designer, fire engineer and building control. Our role is installing what they specify, to the product’s tested detail.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. We take on portfolio and planned maintenance work, planned site by site to suit how each building is used.
Fire stopping in Addington
Our applicators are CSCS-carded, and we are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member. We hold no third-party fire-stopping installer certificate. We install the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail, and our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee. Site teams most often ask us about seals disturbed by maintenance and left open and fire stopping installed outside its tested range, across joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, linear gaps at wall heads and pipe penetrations. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, the work in Addington is the same: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Fit-outs and M&E works in London buildings often leave service penetrations open behind ceilings and in risers. If sealant is the specified product we fit it to its tested detail, and if the detail needs something else, you’ll hear it from us.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Location
- Addington (CR0, CR2, BR4)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
General trades versus a specialist
Some joints are best left to specialists: for instance fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. Getting these wrong usually costs more in the end than doing them right.
There’s also the paperwork. Many sites expect CSCS cards, RAMS and proof of insurance, and we’ll confirm the paperwork you need with the quote.
Nearby places to Addington
Other services in Addington
Keeping the joints sound
After handover, these steps help:
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Ask which product is in place before decorating
- Settle who seals which penetrations at the start of a project
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
Store the specified product details somewhere the next contractor can find them. It makes later repairs much easier to match.
Make reporting new openings part of every permit to work in service areas. It costs little and catches breaches early.
When something else is needed
Honesty saves time and money. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Fire doors, dampers or other fire safety equipment
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
If you are not sure, just ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll give you a straight answer before you book.
Where we work in Addington
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
Commercial clients in Addington
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Sites in Addington can sit alongside others in a wider programme across Greater London.
If you look after buildings for someone else, clear figures and clear communication matter. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end.
Signs you need fire stopping in Addington
Openings in fire-resisting walls usually appear when services are added or changed. A new cable pulled by an electrician, a pipe rerouted by a plumber or a data run drilled through a riser can leave the hole behind. Over a few years of fit-outs, a wall can collect a lot of these.
Most enquiries start with something like this:
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
On a hospital site such as Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1.7 miles north of Addington, fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it, with the work planned around the estates team’s permits.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- The named product and why it was chosen
Fire stopping around Addington: how the place shapes the job
London’s office and residential buildings are refitted constantly, and each round of cabling or pipework can leave open penetrations. We install fire-rated sealant where it is specified and work within the building manager’s permit system. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. From 2 September 2029, BS 476 references are being taken out of Approved Document B, leaving BS EN 13501-2 classification as the route, subject to the Government’s transitional arrangements. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail.
Colleges such as John Ruskin College, 0.7 miles to the south-west of Addington, add IT and services as courses change, and each new penetration through a fire-resisting wall needs sealing with the specified product. Where a unit on an estate such as Vulcan Way Industrial Estate, 1.6 miles to the south-east of Addington, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail.
Addington is about 3 miles south-east of Ashburton, in Greater London. Any commercial site in Addington is covered, whether it’s a single job or part of a planned programme. Addington is one of 764 places in Greater London on our list. London is covered too, some 10 miles away.
We take on service penetrations across the CR0, CR2 and BR4 postcode area. Buildings on Lodge Lane, Falconwood Road and Addington Village Road are within our area. We also cover Coney Hall (1 mile north), Forestdale (1 mile south), Spring Park (1 mile north), New Addington (1 mile south-east) and Selsdon (1 mile south-west). Further afield, our area takes in London (10 miles north), City of Westminster (12 miles north-west), Marylebone (12 miles north-west), Kensington (12 miles north-west), St Pancras (12 miles north) and Shoreditch (12 miles north).
Landmarks near Addington
Around Addington, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Addington Park and John Ruskin College and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is West Wickham station, roughly 1.7 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are National Psychosis Unit (1.6 miles north) and St George's Walk (3.1 miles west). Not far away are Bramley Bank and Duppas Hill.
From enquiry to sign-off
At the end of each section, we remove the tape, clean down and inspect every joint, ready for your sign-off. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out. All of Greater London is in the ULEZ, and kerbside space in Addington can be scarce. Let us know about any on-site parking or loading arrangements when you send the job details.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send and ask about anything unclear.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Unsuitable fillers and loose debris are taken out of each opening.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- We apply the specified sealant to the depth and around the services as the detail shows.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
What we need from you
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Tell staff and tenants when we will be in
Request a quote
A good quote starts with a clear picture: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Send what you have, and we will arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.