Bury fire stopping
Sealant work in Bury for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, quoted at a fixed price.
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
Need fire stopping in Bury?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
From enquiry to sign-off
Site rules come first: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. With the paperwork done, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. Smaller jobs around Bury can be grouped with others nearby. A fixed quote is given before anything starts.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
Quotes
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints and a fixed quote comes back to you. Where a site visit makes more sense, we will arrange one.
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How we handle fire stopping in Bury
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, call 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings with the schedule or marked-up drawings. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. We work on pipe penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and service gaps in risers, and what we’re called in for most is improvised or mixed-product fire seals and penetration schedules that need working through. Most enquiries from Bury start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we look at the rest while we are there and tell you what we find.
For a smaller site near Bury, we plan to do all the penetrations in one go, with the specification and photos sent in advance. We install to the specification and the manufacturer’s guidance, leaving design and sign-off with the designer and building control.
Whoever the client is, the cover is the same: a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. It doesn’t extend to damage, faults in the building or work by others, and we’re upfront about that.
- Where
- Bury (RH20)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Why act early in Bury
The longer openings stay, the more there tend to be: each new service adds to the list. Keeping on top of it after each round of works keeps the job small, rather than turning into a full building survey and reseal. Around Bury, it’s better to renew all the failing joints at once. Send photographs of each area and we will quote for the lot.
A quote for service penetrations depends on how many there are, their condition and the access. Ask us for a fixed quote.
Why clients in Bury choose us
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
- Failed material removed, not covered up
When to call us in Bury
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 and has to be removed.
Clients typically get in touch after noticing one or more of the following:
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Older community buildings such as The Parish Church of St John the Evangelist that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification.
Questions to ask before you book
- Their public liability cover
- How they’ll work around occupants
- Who will actually carry out the work
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
Looking after the joints
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Ask which product is in place before decorating
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
After every round of M&E works, check that the openings created have been sealed. Building it into each contractor’s sign-off keeps the walls intact.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. It costs little and catches breaches early.
Owners, agents and contractors
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Bury can form part of a wider programme across West Sussex.
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor. Programme, specification and site rules come first, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
Questions we are asked in Bury
Is Bury too far out for you?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Send photographs and a list of what needs doing, and we’ll plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
How does the removal of BS 476 from Approved Document B affect fire-rated sealing in Bury?
Approved Document B loses its BS 476 references from 2 September 2029, and BS EN 13501-2 becomes the route, subject to transitional arrangements. Our part doesn’t change: the specified product, to its tested detail.
Is colour matching possible?
Often, yes. Sealants are made in a wide range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or nearby finishes is commonly requested. We confirm what’s available for the specified product when we quote.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes, for 12 months. If a joint fails because of how we installed it, we come back and put it right.
How long do sealant joints last?
There’s no fixed lifespan: movement, exposure, cleaning, traffic and the product all play a part. Treat them as maintenance items and inspect them regularly.
Are you CHAS accredited?
Yes. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. The specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance are what we work to, and any queries are raised before we start.
Doing it in-house
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are easy to get wrong without experience.
For most general trades, sealant is a sideline. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint, which is what makes a joint last.
Compartment walls and floors in Bury
Bury lies roughly 46 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, and the gaps need sealing with the specified product. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. Its BS 476 references are being withdrawn from 2 September 2029, with BS EN 13501-2 classification taking over, subject to transitional arrangements. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail.
Where a unit on an estate such as Quell Farm Industrial Estate, which lies north-east of Bury, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail. In a hotel such as Bridge Hotel, which lies south-east of Bury, new pipework or cabling through bedroom and corridor walls needs sealing with the specified product.
Bury is about 7 miles north of Littlehampton, in West Sussex. Bury sits inside our coverage and the rest of West Sussex, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Across West Sussex, 373 places are covered, Bury among them. We also cover Brighton, some 20 miles away.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout RH20, whatever the building. Among the streets we cover are The Street, Houghton Lane and Coombe Crescent, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. We also cover West Burton (1 mile north-west), Amberley (1 mile east), Watersfield (2 miles north), Cross Gate (2 miles east) and Coldwaltham (2 miles north-east) for service penetrations. Further afield, our area takes in Horsham (15 miles north-east), Worthing (9 miles south-east), Bognor Regis (10 miles south-west), Chichester (11 miles south-west), Littlehampton (7 miles south) and Shoreham-by-Sea (14 miles east).
Landmarks near Bury
We work on buildings around Dorset House School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Amberley station, about 1.2 miles south-east. Nearby you will also find Amberley Museum (1.2 miles south-east) and Arundel and District Hospital (3.8 miles south). For a walk, there’s Bignor Hill and Amberley Wild Brooks.