Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Burkham, Hampshire
Fire stopping in Burkham, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
Fire stopping for Burkham sites
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Burkham
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. If the detail calls for something other than sealant, we say so rather than force sealant into it. If you’re dealing with unsealed openings around new pipes and cables and unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab, we can help, on cable penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads alike. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Burkham from the first photos to the final walk-round, whether it’s one building or several.
Around smaller places like Burkham, penetration seals come up in schools, halls, pubs with rooms, care homes and farm buildings used as offices. If sealant is what the specification names, we install it around the services exactly as the maker’s detail sets out.
A 12-month guarantee applies to all our work in Hampshire. Should something we installed fail, ring 01277 525 020 or email us and we will come back to it.
- Location
- Burkham (GU34)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Common problems we fix in Burkham
Some seals fail because the wrong product went in: builders’ foam or ordinary silicone used to fill a hole. It may look closed, but it has no tested fire performance in that position and has to be removed.
Look out for the following:
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
At a healthcare site like Alton Community Hospital (4.4 miles south-east of Burkham), new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal.
Questions to ask before you book
- How long is the guarantee, and what does it include?
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- The named product and why it was chosen
On site: what to expect
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then the work is carried out to the specified product and detail, and the job ends with a walk round and sign-off. Jobs in and around smaller places like Burkham are usually planned as a single visit, so we ask for photos and rough sizes first. That way the right products come on the day.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals.
- On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
Get a fixed quote
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings that you can work with. For a chat about it beforehand, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Advice
Work for main contractors and building owners
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. We phase the work so people keep access, and each stage is agreed with your contact.
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send the details, accept a fixed quote, and we carry out and guarantee the work. Keys, access and contacts can be agreed in advance.
Penetration seals near Burkham
Burkham lies roughly 47 miles out from central London. 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. For England, the fire stopping of penetrations is dealt with in Approved Document B. 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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail.
Around Burkham, we install fire-rated and intumescent sealant to the product’s tested detail wherever it is the specified product.
Burkham is about 4 miles north-west of Alton, in Hampshire. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Burkham use us for work on service penetrations. 723 places across Hampshire fall within our area, Burkham among them. We also cover Reading, around 19 miles from Burkham.
We cover the GU34 postcode districts. Nearby places we also cover include Bagmore (1 mile north-east), Bradley (1 mile south-west), Southrope (2 miles north-east), Bentworth (2 miles south) and Holt End (2 miles south). Further afield, our area takes in Basingstoke (6 miles north), Winchester (14 miles south-west), Farnborough (15 miles north-east), Fleet (12 miles north-east), Aldershot (14 miles east) and Alton (4 miles south-east).
Around Burkham
For rail, the closest station is Alton station, about 4.7 miles south-east. Well-known places in the area include Barton Castle (3.7 miles south-west) and Alton Community Hospital (4.4 miles south-east). The countryside around Burkham includes Farleigh Hill.
Questions about Burkham
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Alton Community Hospital?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
Is Burkham too small for you to travel to?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. London and every South East county are within our area. Good photos up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Can you quote from photos?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a visit before quoting.
Which sealant will you use?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. Without one, the joint decides: how much it moves, what it bonds to and whether it’s wet, trafficked or fire-rated.
Can the sealant be colour-matched?
It depends on the product. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so the available colours are confirmed with the quote.
Can you seal any opening with fire-rated sealant?
No. Sealant is the right product only where the tested detail says so. Large openings, many plastic pipes and some ducts need collars, wraps, batts or boards, and we flag those rather than improvise.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. We’re fully insured, including public liability cover.
Also in Burkham
Why it’s worth doing now in Burkham
An open or wrongly sealed service penetration lets fire and smoke reach the next compartment much sooner than the building was designed for. 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. Older rural buildings around Burkham move with the seasons, and rigid or tired sealant can’t keep up. A sealant with the right movement capability, correctly sized, lasts far better.
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: joints within easy reach take less time than ones that need access equipment. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.
Why appoint us
- One phone line for London, the South East and Scotland
- Work to your specification and the manufacturer’s guidance
- Clear, fixed quotes
- A Constructionline member, so easy to vet
See how commercial sealant jobs are priced or our accreditations.
Maintenance after handover
Regular inspection catches problems early. In particular:
- Don’t let anyone top up a fire seal with the wrong product
- Ask the designer to confirm details early on refits
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
After the work, brief anyone else working in the area that the openings are now sealed. Any seal cut back for a new service needs reinstating to its tested detail using the same product.
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 instead of being left for someone else.
Surface by surface
Cables and cable bundles
New data and power cables are the most common breach we see. Openings around new cables are resealed to the detail, and we tell you if the bundle exceeds what sealant covers.
Small ducts
Small ductwork can sometimes be sealed with sealant where the tested detail includes it. Bigger ducts and fire-resisting ductwork are normally handled with other products, and we’ll say if that applies.