Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Eyhorne Street, Kent
Sealant work in Eyhorne Street for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, quoted at a fixed price.
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
Fire stopping for Eyhorne Street sites
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
About our fire stopping in Eyhorne Street
Most of our fire stopping work happens after the building is up. Each new cable, pipe or data route cut through a fire-resisting wall leaves an opening behind. We close the openings listed on your schedule, using the specified sealant and detail. Most enquiries involve service penetrations left open after M&E works and head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal, on service gaps in risers, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and linear gaps at wall heads. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Eyhorne Street 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.
Rural conversions around Eyhorne Street 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.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, in Eyhorne Street as everywhere else we work. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Where
- Eyhorne Street (ME17)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
How the quote is worked out
We price every job individually. The main factors are:
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- How much there is to seal
- Access and working height
- The site’s rules and procedures
A quote for service penetrations depends on quantities, condition and access, plus any specification you are working to. Call for a quote.
Sending details for a quote
For an accurate fixed quote, we need a clear picture of the site. Send us:
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- When you need the work done
- Any specification or named product
- Approximate linear metres or a joint schedule
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Fire stopping in Eyhorne Street: the local picture
At about 35 miles from central London, Eyhorne Street is within reach of the capital. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls. The area within 2 miles of Eyhorne Street holds a number of hotels. Bedroom-to-corridor walls in hotels are normally fire-resisting, so new cabling or pipework through them has to be sealed to the tested detail.
In a school such as Hollingbourne Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified. For an estates team at a campus like Canterbury Christ Church University, 2.2 miles east of Eyhorne Street, summer M&E works are usually followed by a round of penetration sealing.
Eyhorne Street is about 4 miles east of Maidstone, in Kent. Looking for fire stopping in Eyhorne Street? We can help, as we do across Kent. Our Kent coverage takes in 931 places, large and small. There’s a separate page for London, roughly 35 miles from Eyhorne Street.
Commercial sites across ME17 are covered. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Eyhorne Street, Tile Fields and Tile Fields Close. If your building is just outside Eyhorne Street, we cover Hollingbourne (1 mile north-east), Ashbank (1 mile south-west), Broomfield (1 mile south), Leeds (1 mile south-west) and Broad Street (1 mile north). Further afield, our area takes in Maidstone (4 miles west), Ashford (13 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (7 miles north-east), Faversham (12 miles east), Minster (13 miles north-east) and Kings Hill (10 miles west).
Landmarks near Eyhorne Street
Recent enquiries here include premises near Glyder House Sugar Loaves Public House and the streets around them. Eyhorne Street has its own railway station: Hollingbourne station. Nearby you’ll also find KIMS hospital (3.6 miles north-west) and Leeds Castle (0.9 miles south). The countryside around Eyhorne Street includes Detling Hill.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
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.
Redoing a failed joint typically costs more than getting it right at the outset, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.
Surface by surface
Small ducts
Small ductwork can sometimes be sealed with sealant where the tested detail includes it. Bigger ducts and fire-resisting ductwork are normally handled with other products.
Metal pipes
Copper and steel pipes are a common service penetration for fire-rated sealant. Pipe diameter, annular gap, sealant depth and any pipe insulation all have to match the detail and we confirm each before sealing.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Blocks and communal areas make up much of the work for housing associations and agents. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
Hotels, schools, healthcare sites, offices and retail units book us directly too. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
Your questions answered
Does your area include sites such as Roebuck Business Park, near Eyhorne Street?
Yes. Our area takes in Eyhorne Street and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Roebuck Business Park included. A few photographs and the unit address let us price the work.
Is hospital work, at somewhere like KIMS hospital, something you do?
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.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. We follow the specification, along with the manufacturer’s installation guidance, and any queries are raised before we start.
Can you quote from photographs?
Many jobs can be quoted from photos, drawings or a joint schedule. Where they aren’t, we arrange a site visit.
Can you send site paperwork?
Let us know which documents the site needs, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm them with the quote.
How long does a typical visit take?
It depends on the scope, though a typical visit normally takes anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access. For bigger or phased jobs, we’ll set out a timescale with the quote.
Can you tell us what fire stopping our building needs?
No. The specification comes from your designer, fire engineer or building control. Our role is installing what they specify, to the product’s tested detail.
How a job runs
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. For work around Eyhorne Street, 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.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Unsuitable fillers and loose debris are taken out of each opening.
- 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.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
What we need from you
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
Quotes
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings you can plan around. If you have questions first, phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Advice
Common problems we fix in Eyhorne Street
Some seals fail because the wrong product went in: builders’ foam or ordinary silicone used to fill a hole. The opening looks sealed but has no fire test evidence behind it.
Clients normally get in touch after noticing something like this:
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
Large healthcare estates like KIMS hospital (3.6 miles north-west of Eyhorne Street) change their services often, so penetration seals are worth checking after M&E work.
Comparing quotes
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- Is the sealant right for the movement and the substrate?
- Their public liability cover