Andover fire stopping
Fire stopping for Andover, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping for Andover sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
About our fire stopping in Andover
Our applicators are CSCS-carded, and we are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member. We don’t hold a 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. Most enquiries involve fire stopping installed outside its tested range and fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back, on service gaps in risers, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Andover first comes to us: we look at the rest while we’re there and tell you what we find.
Older buildings in towns like Andover have often been rewired and replumbed several times, with gaps around pipes and cables left after each change. Our applicators follow the product’s published detail for that wall or floor whenever fire-rated sealant is the chosen seal.
Our 12-month guarantee is about workmanship, not wear and tear. Sealant wears with time, and movement, weather, cleaning and use decide how fast, so we are clear about what is covered before work starts.
- Location
- Andover (SP10, SP11)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Doing it in-house
There’s also the paperwork. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and we’ll confirm the paperwork you need with the quote.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class.
Also near Andover
Other services in Andover
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we will plan around them. While we are working, the area stays contained and tidy, and we check in with your contact before moving on to each new area. In a town such as Andover, most jobs are single buildings. Your photographs, drawings or a site visit come first, followed by a fixed quote.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
Getting the site ready
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
Getting a fixed quote
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings you can plan around. If you have questions first, phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
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Compartments and services around Andover
Andover has a number of hotels close by, all within 2 miles. A hotel refit often runs new services through compartment walls between bedrooms and corridors, and each opening needs the specified seal. At about 63 miles from central London, Andover is within reach of the capital. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls; the gaps need the specified seal.
At a college such as Andover College (under half a mile north of Andover), checking penetration seals after summer M&E works is good practice. Halls and meeting rooms at places like Church of St Mary sometimes gain new services, and any compartment wall crossed needs the specified seal. Refits at places like Northern Avenue Retail Park, under half a mile north-east of Andover, often reroute services through walls between units.
Andover is about 17 miles west of Basingstoke, in Hampshire. If you’re looking for fire stopping in Andover, we can help. Across Hampshire, 723 places are covered, Andover among them. Our Southampton page has more on work in that area, about 21 miles away.
Commercial sites across SP10 and SP11 are covered. We cover commercial and managed buildings on High Street, Goddard Square and London Road. You will find Andover on or near the A303 and A342, so getting applicators and materials to site is simple. If your building is just outside Andover, we cover Picket Twenty (1 mile east), East Anton (1 mile north-east), Knights Enham (1 mile north), Finkley Down (2 miles north-east) and Picket Piece (2 miles east). Further afield, our area takes in Winchester (13 miles south-east), Romsey (15 miles south), Hyde (12 miles south-east), Tidworth (8 miles west), Weeke (12 miles south-east) and Kempshott (15 miles east). Andover is one of the busier places in Hampshire, and its commercial and public buildings are all within our area.
Around Andover
In Andover, that means premises near The Angel Inn, Winton Community Academy and Winton Community Academy. For rail, the closest station is Andover station, about 0.5 miles west. Nearby you’ll also find Andover War Memorial Hospital (0.7 miles north-west) and Andover Museum (less than half a mile east). For a walk, there’s Anton Lakes and Mill Lake.
For managing agents and facilities managers
Hotels, schools, healthcare sites, offices and retail units come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios. One quote can cover more than one site, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Questions about Andover
Will you plan work around the academic year at somewhere like Andover College?
Yes. Education sites normally want the work in vacations or in phases during term, and we plan to suit. Any paperwork you need, from RAMS to our insurance certificate and CSCS details, is confirmed with the quote.
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Andover Hospital (Grounds)?
Yes, healthcare and care buildings are part of our work. We follow the site’s permits, sign-in and infection-control procedures in every area.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, for external work. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
How do you deal with asbestos in old sealant?
The duty to manage asbestos sits with the building’s dutyholder, so we’ll ask for the register before work on an older building. If anything suspect turns up, we stop until it’s tested.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes, for 12 months. If our installation fails in that time, we return and fix it.
What changes on 2 September 2029?
In England, references to the older BS 476 national classes are being removed from Approved Document B from 2 September 2029, subject to the Government’s transitional arrangements. The European route, BS EN 13501-2, then applies. Your designer will choose products with the right evidence.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No. We cut the old material out and clean the joint back before sealing, because fresh silicone will not bond with aged silicone.
Why act early in Andover
Open service penetrations matter on ordinary days, not just in a fire: smoke, noise and draughts pass through them every day. The specified fire seal closes the gap for all of these, and the other benefits follow. A failed joint is easier to put right before damp shows inside. Once water gets in, there’s drying out and making good as well.
Cost follows what’s involved: removing old material, preparing the joints, the product, the access and how the work is phased. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll explain how it’s made up.
What you get with us
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- Joints cleaned back to sound surfaces
- One phone line for London, the South East and Scotland
- Clear, fixed quotes
Read our cost guide and how we’re accredited.
Aftercare for building managers
For the best life from the joints:
- Ask the designer to confirm details early on refits
- Keep general-purpose fillers away from compartment walls
- Have penetrations checked while they can still be seen
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged, and report them promptly.
Specify fire stopping early on refits, not as an afterthought. The designer can then choose details that suit the services planned, and the work runs in step with the M&E.
When something else is needed
Not every problem is a sealant problem, and we’d rather tell you before you spend money. These need a different solution:
- Fire doors, dampers or other fire safety equipment
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
If you’re not sure, just call the office on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Where we work in Andover
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers