Chichester fire stopping
Need fire stopping in Chichester? Send us the details for a fixed quote, backed by a 12-month guarantee on the work.
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
Fire stopping in Chichester
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Chichester, done properly
The test standards are BS EN 1366-3 for penetration seals and BS EN 1366-4 for linear joints. That classification, such as EI 60 or EI 120, belongs to the product in its tested arrangement. So our job is to reproduce that arrangement faithfully. Most enquiries involve fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back and open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls, on cable penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Chichester first comes to us: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
Towns the size of Chichester have plenty of buildings with compartment walls: schools, care homes, surgeries, offices and blocks of flats. New cabling or pipework through a fire-resisting wall leaves a gap that has to be made good with the specified product.
Our 12-month guarantee is about workmanship, not wear and tear. Sealant wears with time, and movement, weather, cleaning and use decide how fast, so we spell out the cover before we begin.
- Place
- Chichester (PO19, PO20, PO18, PO10)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
After the work
Your facilities or cleaning team can help the joints last. Share these points with them:
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Treat an open penetration as a priority repair
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged, and report them promptly.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. It costs little and catches breaches early.
Questions we are asked in Chichester
Can you work in a care home near Chichester with residents in?
Yes. Care settings are planned area by area, at times agreed with the home. Noise and disruption are kept to a minimum.
Can you work around term dates at a campus such as University of Chichester?
Yes, holiday working periods are the norm on campus jobs. Let us know which documents your site asks for, and we’ll confirm them alongside the quote.
Is fire stopping in Scotland covered by different guidance?
Building standards in Scotland are separate from England’s, and England uses Approved Document B. Either way, we install the specified sealant to its tested detail.
How do we ask for a quote?
There are four steps: send details, receive a fixed quote, we carry out the work, and it’s guaranteed. The first step only needs photographs and a postcode.
How soon can the area be used again?
The product and site conditions decide that. Some take light use quickly, others need longer to cure, so we will confirm the curing time on the day.
Which sealant will you use?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
Is Chichester in your area?
Yes. We cover Chichester. To discuss a job, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
When to bring in a specialist
Some joints are best left to specialists: for example fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
The visible bead is only part of the job. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are where general trades tend to cut corners.
On site: what to expect
We follow your site rules from the start: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. Once we’re cleared to begin, the joints are worked through in the order agreed with your site contact, and each area is checked before we leave it. Parking and loading for town-centre jobs in Chichester are worth mentioning when you send details. Industrial and business units typically have yard or car park space.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out first.
- The specified backing and sealant go in to depth and are finished neatly.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
Preparing the site
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
- Confirm the product named in the specification
Ask for a quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price against exactly what is specified. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photos and a few notes.
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Also near Chichester
Other services in Chichester
Compartment walls and floors in Chichester
Central London is about 54 miles from Chichester. Tenant changes on commuter-belt business parks mean regular fit-outs, and new services through compartment walls; the gaps need the specified seal. Chichester has a number of hotels close by, all within 2 miles. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
Shop fits in centres such as Summersdale Retail Park (1.3 miles north of Chichester) can bring new services through fire-resisting walls between units, which then need the specified seal. Campus buildings at universities such as University of Chichester, under half a mile north-east of Chichester, see constant changes to data and services, and fire-rated sealant goes in around new penetrations where it is specified.
Chichester is about 27 miles east of Southampton, in West Sussex. Across the PO19 postcode area, the process is the same: details in, fixed quote out, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Chichester is one of 373 places in West Sussex on our list for service penetrations. We also cover Portsmouth, around 13 miles from Chichester.
We take on service penetrations across the PO19, PO20, PO18 and PO10 postcode area, whatever the building. Among the streets we cover are St Martin's Square, Market Road and Old Market Avenue. Main routes into Chichester include the A27 and A259. If your building is just outside Chichester, we cover Portfield (1 mile east), Westhampnett (1 mile north-east), Shopwyke (2 miles east), Maudlin (2 miles north-east) and East Lavant (2 miles north). Nearby towns on our patch include Bognor Regis (5 miles south-east), Selsey (7 miles south), Littlehampton (11 miles east), Rustington (12 miles east), Storrington (15 miles east) and Angmering (13 miles east). Among the larger centres in West Sussex is Chichester, and its commercial and public buildings are all within our area.
Local landmarks in Chichester
Around Chichester, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Chichester High School For Girls, George and Dragon Inn and Central C of E Junior School, among other places. Chichester’s nearest station is Chichester station, roughly 0.6 miles south. Nearby you’ll also find Novium Museum (less than half a mile south) and Chichester Castle (less than half a mile east). The countryside around Chichester includes Stoke Down and Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve.
Why it’s worth doing now in Chichester
Open service penetrations matter on ordinary days, not just in a fire: smoke, noise and draughts pass through them every day. Sealing them to the specified detail deals with the fire risk first, and the other benefits follow. A failed joint is easier to put right before damp shows inside. Once water gets in, there’s drying out and making good as well.
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.
Why clients in Chichester choose us
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.
Common problems we fix in Chichester
Fire stopping can get squeezed at the end of a programme, or done by whoever is on site. That is how unsuitable products and improvised details end up in compartment walls, which then have to be put right.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
For a site team at a college like Chichester College, which lies south-west of Chichester, fire-rated sealing is best scheduled after the summer works.
What your quote should include
- How joint depth will be controlled
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
When something else is needed
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’re upfront when that’s the case. It won’t fix:
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
If in doubt, phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will say what we think.
Surfaces we seal
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads