Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Crawley, Oxfordshire
We carry out fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Crawley. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
Fire stopping across Crawley
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
About our fire stopping in Crawley
Our applicators are CSCS-carded, and we are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member. We hold no third-party fire-stopping installer certificate and we’d rather say that up front. What we offer is careful installation of the specified sealant to its tested detail, with a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. The enquiries we see most involve builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls and unsealed openings around new pipes and cables, across linear gaps at wall heads, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, in Crawley it comes down to the same thing: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
For a smaller site near Crawley, we plan to do all the penetrations in one go, so send the specification and photos first. Design and sign-off belong to the designer or building control; we install what’s specified.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Location
- Crawley (OX29)
- Region
- Oxfordshire
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Should maintenance staff do it?
Redoing a failed joint normally costs more than getting it right at the outset, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. For that reason, many FMs and contractors use a sealant specialist from the outset.
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Our process
A typical day starts with protection: masking tape along the joint edges and sheeting over anything nearby. On site, the work usually takes longer where risers, ceiling voids or occupied floors have to be worked through in sequence, and our waste is bagged and taken away as we go. If others near Crawley need work, visits can be combined, which keeps travel down. A fixed quote is given before anything starts.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Getting the site ready
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
Quotes
The quickest route to a quote is a few photographs and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or ring 01277 525 020 or use the quote form to discuss it first.
Advice
For managing agents and facilities managers
Blocks and communal areas make up much of the work for housing associations and agents. We phase the work so people keep access, and each stage is agreed with your contact.
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around Crawley. One quote can cover more than one site, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Service penetrations in Crawley buildings
Central London is about 64 miles from Crawley. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. From 2 September 2029, BS 476 references are being taken out of Approved Document B, leaving BS EN 13501-2 classification as the route, subject to the Government’s transitional arrangements. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail.
Tenant changes at centres like Windrush Valley Shopping Centre, 1.3 miles to the south of Crawley, often mean new services through walls between units. Colleges such as Abingdon & Witney College: Witney Campus (1.6 miles south-east of Crawley) add IT and services as courses change, and each new penetration through a fire-resisting wall needs sealing with the specified product. Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Witney Community Hospital (to the south-east of Crawley) the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product.
Crawley is about 1 mile north-west of Witney, in Oxfordshire. If you are looking for fire stopping in Crawley, we can help. Across Oxfordshire, 423 places are covered, including Crawley. We also cover Oxford, some 12 miles away.
We take on service penetrations across the OX29 postcode area, for business premises of every kind. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Witney Hill, Farm Lane and Foxburrow Lane. Nearby places we also cover include Leafield (2 miles north-west), Swinbrook (4 miles west), Ascott d'Oyley (4 miles north-west), Ascott-under-Wychwood (5 miles north-west) and Ascott Earl (5 miles north-west). Nearby towns on our patch include Oxford (12 miles east), Abingdon-on-Thames (13 miles south-east), Carterton (5 miles south-west), Wantage (15 miles south), Grove (14 miles south) and Faringdon (11 miles south).
Near you in Crawley
Recent enquiries here include premises near Wood Green School and The Lamb Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Finstock station, roughly 3.6 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Cogges Manor Farm Museum (1.9 miles south-east). For a walk, there’s Blenheim Farm.
Places near Crawley
Also in Crawley
What sealant work can’t fix
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’d rather tell you before you spend money. It won’t fix:
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
If in doubt, phone 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we will say what we think.
Where we work in Crawley
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Service gaps in risers
Crawley: questions and answers
Can you seal penetrations in a hotel in Crawley after a refit?
Yes, to the specification and the product’s tested detail. 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 work at a site such as Crawley Mill Industrial Estate, by Crawley?
Yes, sites like Crawley Mill Industrial Estate are within our area, along with the rest of Crawley. Send details of the unit and the work through our quote form for a quick quote.
How many days will you need on site?
It depends on the scope, but the work normally takes longer where risers, ceiling voids or occupied floors have to be worked through in sequence. For bigger or phased jobs, we’ll set out a timescale with the quote.
Is colour matching possible?
That depends on the product specified. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so we will confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
Will you come and look before quoting?
Many jobs can be quoted from photographs, drawings or a joint schedule. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a visit before quoting.
How do you choose the sealant?
The specification comes first, if there is one. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
Will your applicators have CSCS cards?
Yes. If you need card details for site access, tell us and we will confirm them with the quote.
Cost factors for service penetrations
We price every job individually. The main factors are:
- The product specified
- How much existing material needs removing
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- How accessible the joints are
Access can matter as much as the joints themselves: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Mention the access as part of your enquiry.
Before you send an enquiry
To price the job accurately, we need a clear picture of the site. Useful things to include:
- When you need the work done
- The product your specification calls for
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Where the site is, with the postcode
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Looking after the joints
Once the work is signed off, these steps help:
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
- Keep general-purpose fillers away from compartment walls
- Flag new cables with no seal around them
Store the specified product details somewhere the next contractor can find them. Anyone resealing later needs to know which product and detail were used.
Write fire stopping into the scope of any work crossing a compartment wall or floor. Then the seal goes in while the area is open, not months later.