Burghclere Common fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Burghclere Common. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
Fire stopping across Burghclere Common
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Burghclere Common
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email 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 builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls and hidden openings found during inspections, across linear gaps at wall heads, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and cable penetrations. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, the work in Burghclere Common is the same: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Rural conversions around Burghclere Common can put new fire-resisting partitions inside older structures. Where a pipe or cable passes through a fire-resisting wall, the seal must match the tested detail: product, substrate, gap and depth.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. You get a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Where
- Burghclere Common (RG20)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Looking after the joints
Problems stay small when the joints are checked regularly. Specifically:
- Record which product was used where
- Settle who seals which penetrations at the start of a project
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
- Keep general-purpose fillers away from compartment walls
Never top up a fire seal with foam, ordinary silicone or filler. Repairs need the same product and detail as the original, or a new specification from the designer.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. Small habits like this stop openings building up.
Places near Burghclere Common
What else we do in Burghclere Common
Why act early in Burghclere Common
A seal that doesn’t match its tested detail gives false comfort. Correcting it means cutting it out and starting again with the specified product, and doing it once, properly, is cheaper. One visit to deal with every failing joint makes more sense than several trips to a place like Burghclere Common, rather than one at a time. Send photos of each area and we will quote for the lot.
There’s no price list, because the scope varies so much from one building to the next. Call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
Why appoint us
- Commercial sealant work since 2005
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- Work carried out by CSCS-carded applicators
- Work to your specification and the manufacturer’s guidance
Read our cost guide or how we’re accredited.
How a job runs
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. Any old material is cut back to clean, sound faces, primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, and the sealant is tooled off neatly. If others near Burghclere Common need work, visits can be combined, which keeps travel down. You’ll have a fixed quote before work starts.
- 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.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant is gunned in to the specified depth, then tooled.
- If an opening needs something other than sealant, we tell you instead of improvising.
Before we start on site
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
Getting a fixed quote
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photos and a description will do.
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Building owners, agents and FMs in Burghclere Common
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. The work is planned around how the building runs, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Burghclere Common can sit alongside others in a wider programme.
Penetration seals near Burghclere Common
Burghclere Common lies roughly 54 miles out from central London. Tenant changes on commuter-belt business parks mean regular fit-outs, and new services through compartment walls. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. The national BS 476 classes are due to drop out of it from 2 September 2029, leaving the European BS EN 13501-2 route, subject to transitional arrangements. What we install is set by the specification, and it goes in to the tested detail.
In a building such as Church of the Ascension, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail. Workshops and IT rooms at colleges like Newbury College (to the north of Burghclere Common) are re-serviced often, leaving penetrations to seal. In a school such as The Clere School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified.
Burghclere Common is about 3 miles south of Newbury, in Hampshire. If you’re looking for fire stopping in Burghclere Common, we can help. Burghclere Common is one of 723 places we cover in Hampshire. There’s a separate page for Reading, about 16 miles away.
Commercial sites across RG20 are covered for service penetrations. Sites close to Burghclere Common are covered too, including Earlstone Common (1 mile south), Newtown Common (1 mile north), Burghclere (1 mile south), Wash Water (1 mile west) and Sandleford (1 mile north). A short drive away, we cover Basingstoke (12 miles south-east), Andover (12 miles south-west), Tadley (8 miles east), Popley (11 miles south-east), Kempshott (11 miles south-east) and Ludgershall (15 miles south-west).
What’s near Burghclere Common
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Burghclere Primary School, Sandleford Priory and Horris Hill School, among other places. The nearest railway station is Newbury station, roughly 2.7 miles north of the centre. Nearby you will also find Old Chapel Textile Centre (2.1 miles north-east) and West Berkshire Community Hospital (3.6 miles north). Not far away are Beacon Hill and Audrey's Meadow.
Quoting for work in Burghclere Common
Your fixed quote is built from the real scope. It takes account of:
- How much existing material needs removing
- How much there is to seal
- Which sealant the job calls for
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
Larger quantities, tricky access or phasing all shape the price. So do site requirements such as inductions and permits, along with the time of year for external work.
Details that help us quote
Good information means a firmer quote. Helpful details to send:
- Any dates the work must fit around
- The postcode of the building
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- Any specification or named product
To get a fixed quote, call the office on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form. Our quote form is another easy route.
When it isn’t the sealant
A proper diagnosis includes knowing what sealant can’t do. We will tell you if the real problem is one of these:
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
If you are not sure, just ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Questions about Burghclere Common
Is a hospital such as West Berkshire Community Hospital somewhere you can work?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Before anything starts, the estates team agrees permits, inductions and infection-control measures with us.
Can you seal penetrations in a hotel in Burghclere Common after a refit?
Yes, where the specification calls for fire-rated sealant. It goes in to the manufacturer’s tested detail for the wall or floor and the services passing through, and we will tell you if the detail calls for a collar, wrap or batt instead.
Can you follow the specification on our project?
Yes. The specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance are what we work to.
Are you insured?
Yes. Our insurance certificate can be sent alongside the quote.
Can you fit around our working hours?
The office is staffed Monday to Friday, from 8am until 5pm. Let us know your site hours and access windows, and the work will be planned around them.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No, never. Overlaying old sealant is a frequent cause of early failure, so it all comes out first.
Can you send site paperwork?
Each site asks for different documents, so list what you need, whether RAMS, insurance or CSCS details, and we will confirm with the quote.