South East England and London
Fire Stopping in Windsor and Maidenhead
We cover 60 towns and villages across Windsor and Maidenhead for fire stopping, with failed joints always cut out and a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship.
Need fire stopping in Windsor and Maidenhead?
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Where we work in Windsor and Maidenhead
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.
Biggest towns in Windsor and Maidenhead
What else we do in Windsor and Maidenhead
- Commercial sealant contractors
- Coloured and colour-matched sealant
- Mastic sealing for building owners and managing agents
- Construction and new-build mastic
- Industrial and floor joint sealing
- Expansion and movement joint sealing
- Facade and window perimeter sealing
- Commercial washroom and wet-area sealing
Postcodes in Windsor and Maidenhead
How fire stopping works in Windsor and Maidenhead
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings with the schedule or marked-up drawings and the specified product data. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. Site teams most often ask us about openings found when ceilings come down for a refit and expanding foam used as fire stopping, on cable penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors.
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- 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.
What affects the price in Windsor and Maidenhead
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Mention the access as part of your enquiry.
What you get with us
- One number for every site we cover
- Health and safety: CHAS accredited
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- CSCS-carded applicators
Getting a fixed quote
A handful of photos and a postcode is the fastest way to a quote. Send them through the quote form, or call 01277 525 020 or send photos by email to discuss it first.
Landmarks near Maidenhead
Around Maidenhead, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Boyne Hill CofE Infant and Nursery School, Desborough College and Braywick Park and the streets around them. You’ll also find All Saints' Church (under half a mile south-west), Claires Court Schools (under half a mile north) and The Windsor Castle pub (less than half a mile north-west). The nearest railway station is Maidenhead station, about 0.5 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include The Reitlinger Bequest Museum (1.2 miles east) and St Mark's Hospital (0.6 miles west). The countryside around Maidenhead includes Weycock Hill and Taplow Lake.
Fire-resisting walls and floors across Windsor and Maidenhead
Hospitals, schools, care homes, offices and blocks across Windsor and Maidenhead all rely on fire-resisting walls and floors. Where fire-rated sealant is the specified product for a service penetration or linear gap, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
Around the motorway corridors of the South East, business parks and industrial estates are common, and we cover Windsor and Maidenhead along with the rest of the region.
Maidenhead: On a site such as Vanwall Business Park, which lies south-west of Maidenhead, every fit-out that runs new services through a compartment wall leaves penetrations to seal with the specified product. Holiday works at schools like Claires Court Schools often leave service openings to seal before pupils return.
Common problems we fix in Windsor and Maidenhead
A common fault is a product that was never fire-rated in the first place: builders’ foam or ordinary silicone used to fill a hole. The opening looks sealed but has no fire test evidence behind it, so it has to come out.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
Leave it or put it right?
An unsealed opening affects more than fire safety: smoke, noise and draughts pass through them every day. The specified fire seal closes the gap for all of these.
Comparing quotes
- The named product and why it was chosen
- How joint depth will be controlled
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- What site paperwork they can supply
Surface by surface
Cables and cable bundles
Single cables and small bundles are often within a fire-rated sealant’s tested detail. The detail limits bundle size and the gaps between and around cables and we work within those limits.
Drylining partitions
Plasterboard partitions are tested as a specific construction. The sealant detail has to be tested in that wall type, with the stated board layers before sealing.
Work for main contractors and building owners
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end.
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor. Programme, specification and site rules come first, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.
When something else is needed
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
Questions about Windsor and Maidenhead
Will fire-rated sealant work on every penetration?
No. Sealant is the right product only where the tested detail says so. Collars, wraps, batts and boards exist for openings sealant doesn’t cover, and we flag those rather than improvise.
Does weather matter for sealant work?
It can, for external work. Sealant won’t bond properly to a wet or frosty joint, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Internal work is far less affected.
What does an EI 60 rating mean?
Penetration seals are tested to BS EN 1366-3 and linear joint seals to BS EN 1366-4. Classification follows BS EN 13501-2. That rating only holds when the product is installed to its tested detail.
How many days will you need on site?
The duration is planned around your programme and the access we are given. You’ll have an expected duration with the quote.
Do you work in Windsor and Maidenhead?
Yes. We cover Windsor and Maidenhead, within our coverage of Greater London, South East England and Scotland. To discuss a job, call 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
How long will the new sealant last?
There isn’t a single answer, since movement, weather, cleaning and use all affect it. Regular inspection is the best way to catch problems early.
Do you take on small jobs?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Send details for a fixed quote.