South East England and London

Fire Stopping in Surrey

We cover 379 towns and villages across Surrey for fire stopping, with failed joints always cut out and a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship.

Book fire stopping in Surrey

Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.

Send your details 01277 525 020

Fire stopping in every part of Surrey

Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps. Pick your town below to see the details for your area, and send details for a fixed quote.

Main towns

Fire stopping across Surrey: what to expect

Facilities managers in Surrey often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. If a specification already covers those walls and floors, we can reseal to it using the product and detail it sets out. Where there isn’t one, the designer or fire engineer needs to set one first. We work on cable penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are service penetrations left open after M&E works and non-fire-rated filler around services.

Occupied buildings need a little choreography. The work area is signed and kept contained, with routes through the building left open and work section by section so the rest of the building stays in use.

We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out so the seal starts clean.
Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.

How we quote

Every site prices differently: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.

What you get with us

Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
Public liability insurance in place
Clear, fixed quotes
Health and safety: CHAS accredited

Request a quote

Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We’ll quote against your scope and drawings that you can work with. If you have questions first, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.

Landmarks near Guildford

Around Guildford, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Surrey Maths School, Sandfield Primary School and Guildford High School and the streets around them. You will also find Church of St John the Evangelist (less than half a mile east), Stoke Park (under half a mile east) and The King's Head pub (under half a mile south-east). For rail, the closest station is London Road (Guildford) station, about 0.6 miles south-east. Nearby you will also find Guildford Castle (0.9 miles south) and Guildford House (0.8 miles south). Green spaces nearby include Silent Pool and Pewley Hill.

Service penetrations in Surrey buildings

For buildings across Surrey, fire-stopping design and sign-off belong to the designer, fire engineer or building control. Our part is installing the specified product correctly, matched to the wall or floor and the services passing through.

The South East has large numbers of business parks and industrial estates, especially around the motorway corridors, and Surrey is part of the area we cover.

Guildford: Hospital estates such as Mount Alvernia Hospital, 0.9 miles south-east of Guildford, are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail. In a hotel such as The Stoke Hotel (under half a mile south of Guildford), new pipework or cabling through bedroom and corridor walls needs sealing with the specified product.

When something else is needed

A proper diagnosis includes knowing what sealant can’t do. We’ll tell you if the real problem is any of the following:

Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping

Leave it or put it right?

Leave a penetration open and smoke and fire can cross into the next compartment far earlier than intended. While the openings can be reached, sealing them is normally straightforward. Left until ceilings are closed or a tenant moves in, the same work costs more access and more disruption.

Questions to ask before you book

Whether their applicators hold CSCS cards
Their pre-qualification and accreditations
What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
Their plan for phasing and protecting the area

Quoting for work in Surrey

To price the job, we consider:

Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
Joint width, depth and condition
Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
Whether the work must be split into stages

The product called for affects the cost, and so does the preparation, from cutting out to priming and backing rod. Access, phasing and site rules also count.

Details that help us quote

Whether it’s one area or a whole building, these details speed things up:

The product your specification calls for
Whether an asbestos survey exists
Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
Clear photos of the problem areas

Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and we will put a fixed quote together. To get it moving, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us.

After the work

Sealant joints are maintenance items, and their life depends on movement, exposure, cleaning and use. We suggest:

Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in

Don’t patch a fire-rated seal with anything outside its tested detail. A repair should use the original product, installed the same way.

Write fire stopping into the scope of any work crossing a compartment wall or floor. That way the opening is sealed while the trade and access are still there.

Building owners, agents and FMs in Surrey

Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor, on new build and refurbishment alike. Programme, specification and site rules come first, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.

Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.

Questions we’re asked in Surrey

Do you take on multi-site work?

Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, and you deal with one contact throughout across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.

Do you approve fire stopping for building control?

No. We don’t certify or sign off fire stopping, and we hold no third-party fire-stopping installer certificate. We work to the specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance, and any records you need can be confirmed with the quote.

Does the weather affect the work?

For external joints, yes. The joint has to be dry and within the product’s temperature range, so frost, rain or cold mornings can delay outside work. Inside work is seldom held up.

How soon can the area be used again?

We will confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and flag anything to keep off until it has cured.

What site paperwork can you supply?

Requirements differ from site to site, so tell us what you need and we’ll confirm it when we quote.

Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?

Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months.

Which standards are fire seals tested to?

The tests are BS EN 1366-3 for penetrations and BS EN 1366-4 for linear joints, and classification is to BS EN 13501-2. An EI 60 seal kept its integrity and insulation for 60 minutes as tested.