Burley Street fire stopping
Work needed on a service penetration in Burley Street? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping in Burley Street
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
Compartments and services around Burley Street
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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail. A 2-mile radius around Burley Street takes in several hotels. A hotel refit often runs new services through compartment walls between bedrooms and corridors, and each opening needs the specified seal.
In a school such as Burley Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified. Office fit-outs on sites such as Platinum Jubilee Business Park (to the west of Burley Street) add cabling and pipework through fire-resisting walls, and fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it. Hotels like Burley Manor Hotel (0.6 miles south-east of Burley Street) are refurbished in phases, and each phase can open up compartment walls.
Burley Street is in Hampshire. We cover Burley Street and the rest of Hampshire, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. Across Hampshire, 723 places are covered, including Burley Street. We also cover Southampton, some 15 miles away.
Postcode districts covered here: BH24 for service penetrations. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Tyrells Lane, Ringwood Road and Forest Road. We also cover Burley (1 mile south-east), Foulford (2 miles north-west), Forest Corner (2 miles north-west), Shobley (2 miles north-west) and Bagnum (2 miles south-west). Further afield, our area takes in Totton (11 miles north-east), Lymington (9 miles south-east), Romsey (15 miles north-east), Hythe (14 miles east), New Milton (6 miles south) and Ringwood (3 miles west).
Local landmarks in Burley Street
Around Burley Street, our work takes us to commercial buildings near The Queen's Head pub. Open spaces near Burley Street include Linbrook Lake and Blashford Lakes.
About our fire stopping in Burley Street
Penetration seals are fire tested to BS EN 1366-3 and linear joint seals to BS EN 1366-4 and the results are classified to BS EN 13501-2. A rating such as EI 60 only holds when the product is installed as it was tested. Reproducing the tested arrangement on site is the part we take care of. Site teams most often ask us about fire stopping installed outside its tested range and hidden openings found during inspections, on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: on jobs in Burley Street, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
Smaller places such as Burley Street still have buildings with fire-resisting walls and floors: schools, halls, care homes and commercial conversions. Any service penetration through those walls should be closed with the specified product, set out as its test evidence shows.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Location
- Burley Street (BH24)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
For managing agents and facilities managers
As a CHAS accredited contractor and Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. We are fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. We plan around the way the building is used, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
Questions about Burley Street
Do you work on fire-rated sealing in hotels in Burley Street?
Yes. We install fire-rated and intumescent sealant where it is specified. Work is done room by room so the hotel keeps trading; design and sign-off stay with the designer and building control.
Is Burley Street off your patch?
Not at all. Burley Street is within our area. We work across Greater London and the South East. We plan jobs in smaller places so return trips are kept to a minimum.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and we’ll price the work to it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. If you need card details for site access, tell us and we’ll confirm them with the quote.
How much does the work cost?
Every job gets its own fixed quote. To get one, call 01277 525 020 or email us with a description of the work.
Will you come and look before quoting?
It depends on the job. Straightforward work can often be priced from photos and measurements, and bigger or more complex jobs typically get a visit.
Can you work while the building is occupied?
Yes, with some planning. Tell us your site hours and access windows and we will plan around them.
Maintenance after handover
Keep the joints in good shape with a few simple steps:
- Don’t let anyone top up a fire seal with the wrong product
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Treat an open penetration as a priority repair
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
Once the seals are in, tell other trades they exist and must not be disturbed. If a seal has to be opened for a new service, it should be reinstated to the same detail, by someone who knows the system.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. It tells the next contractor exactly what to reinstate.
Leave it or put it right?
An open or wrongly sealed service penetration lets fire and smoke reach the next compartment much sooner than the building was designed for. Putting it right is usually a modest job when the openings are accessible. Wait until ceilings close or areas are occupied and the same work becomes harder to reach. Older rural buildings around Burley Street move with the seasons, and rigid or tired sealant can’t keep up. The right product, sized to the joint, copes much better.
The work involved drives the cost: removing old material, preparing the joints, the product, the access and how the work is phased. Call for a fixed quote and we will explain how it’s made up.
Why clients in Burley Street choose us
- Workmanship guaranteed for 12 months
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
- A fixed quote before work starts
- CHAS accredited
Read our cost guide or our accreditations.
On site: what to expect
The first thing on site is a walk round with your contact, agreeing which joints are in scope, where to start and what must stay open. Then we strip out anything that has failed, prepare every joint and seal it. For a building around Burley Street, tell us how to find it and who will meet us. Send that with the details and we will confirm the plan with the quote.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send.
- On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
Request a quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photos and a description will do.
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What sealant work can’t fix
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we say so rather than covering them up:
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
Not sure which it is? You can call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us and we will tell you honestly before you book.
What we seal
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
When to bring in a specialist
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. Where it goes wrong is preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but anything bigger is another matter: a specialist brings efficiency, a consistent finish and a 12-month guarantee.