Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Drayton St Leonard, Oxfordshire
Fire stopping in Drayton St Leonard, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
Fire stopping in Drayton St Leonard
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Drayton St Leonard
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 won’t pretend otherwise. We install the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail, and our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee. Most enquiries involve fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated and fire sealant pulled out of the opening, on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, service gaps in risers and pipe penetrations. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, the work in Drayton St Leonard is the same: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
Rural conversions around Drayton St Leonard can put new fire-resisting partitions inside older structures. A penetration seal only performs as tested if product, substrate, service, gap and depth all match the detail.
Whoever the client is, the cover is the same: a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. Faults in the structure, damage and other trades’ work fall outside it, and we say so plainly.
- Place
- Drayton St Leonard (OX10)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
When it isn’t the sealant
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
Not sure which it is? You can speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will tell you honestly before you book.
What we seal
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
Common questions from Drayton St Leonard clients
What does the BS 476 change mean for fire-rated sealant in Drayton St Leonard?
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.
Would you work within a site like Littlemore Hospital?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Are you CHAS accredited and on Constructionline?
Yes. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes. The 12-month guarantee covers our preparation and application, but not damage, misuse or other trades’ work.
Do you have public liability insurance?
Yes. We’re fully insured, and the certificate can go with your quote.
How do you deal with asbestos in old sealant?
Managing asbestos is the dutyholder’s responsibility, so we’ll ask for the register before work on an older building. Work pauses if suspect material is found, until it has been tested.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, with one point of contact across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.
How a job runs
Inspect, seal, sign off: that’s the shape of every visit. First comes an inspection and agreement on scope, then we prepare and seal each joint with the specified product, and we finish with a walk round so the work can be signed off. For work around Drayton St Leonard, we aim to finish in one visit, so we ask for photographs and rough sizes first. That way the right products come on the day.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- 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.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Getting the site ready
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Getting a fixed quote
Send us photographs, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
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Keeping the joints sound
For the best life from the joints:
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
- Don’t let anyone top up a fire seal with the wrong product
- Treat an open penetration as a priority repair
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
Store the specified product details somewhere the next contractor can find them. Anyone resealing later needs to know which product and detail were used.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. When a new service goes through, everyone knows which product and detail to match, and it helps at inspections.
Doing it in-house
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but anything bigger is another matter: a specialist works through quantities efficiently, leaves a consistent finish and backs it with a 12-month guarantee.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class.
Different surfaces, different methods
Linear joints
Head-of-wall gaps, slab edges and wall junctions are linear joints. Their tested detail, under BS EN 1366-4, sets the width, depth, backing and movement allowed.
Risers and ceiling voids
Service risers and the voids above ceilings are where openings collect. Access to these areas is planned with you in advance, including keys, permits and any isolations.
What we are called out for in Drayton St Leonard
A common fault is a product that was never fire-rated in the first place: expanding foam or a general-purpose sealant pushed into a gap to tidy it. The opening looks sealed but has no fire test evidence behind it and has to be removed.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Littlemore Hospital (to the north-west of Drayton St Leonard) the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product.
What to look for in a quote
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- How joint depth will be controlled
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
Compartment walls and floors in Drayton St Leonard
Drayton St Leonard is about 46 miles from central London. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls; the gaps need the specified seal. Approved Document B is the English guidance that covers fire stopping around 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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail.
For a building such as Church of St Leonard, new heating or data runs are the usual reason penetrations need sealing.
Drayton St Leonard is about 6 miles north-east of Didcot, in Oxfordshire. Commercial clients in Drayton St Leonard use us for work on service penetrations. Drayton St Leonard is one of 423 places in Oxfordshire on our list. Our Oxford page has more on work in that area, about 7 miles away.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in OX10 gets the same process as the rest of our area: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Buildings on High Street, Church Lane and Ford Lane are within our area. If your building is just outside Drayton St Leonard, we cover Great Holcombe (1 mile east), Newington (1 mile east), Brookhampton (1 mile north), Stadhampton (1 mile north) and Berinsfield (1 mile west). A short drive away, we cover Oxford (7 miles north-west), Didcot (6 miles south-west), Abingdon-on-Thames (6 miles west), Thame (9 miles north-east), Wantage (13 miles west) and Henley-on-Thames (13 miles south-east).
Landmarks near Drayton St Leonard
Around Drayton St Leonard, our work takes us to commercial buildings near The Catherine Wheel pub. Drayton St Leonard’s nearest station is Culham station, about 4.3 miles west. Nearby you’ll also find Littlemore Hospital (5.3 miles north-west) and Aston Martin Heritage Trust Museum (less than half a mile south). The countryside around Drayton St Leonard includes Wittenham Clumps and Wells Farm.