Foley Park fire stopping
Planning work on a service penetration in Foley Park? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
Need fire stopping in Foley Park?
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
How the quote is worked out
What shapes the price:
- How much existing material needs removing
- Phasing around occupants
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
Every site prices differently: joint size, product, access and site hours all play a part. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Sending details for a quote
However big the job, the same details help:
- Your programme or deadline
- Any specification or named product
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
- What the building is and how it’s used
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To start the process, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Foley Park
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Larger openings and some plastic pipes call for collars, wraps, batts or boards instead. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. Site teams most often ask us about unsealed openings around new pipes and cables and fire stopping installed outside its tested range, on small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows, linear gaps at wall heads and service gaps in risers. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Foley Park 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.
Around Foley Park, penetration and linear seals tend to be one-building jobs. Send the specification, drawings or photos of the openings and we’ll quote to suit.
We stand by our work with a 12-month guarantee. It covers how we prepared and applied the sealant.
- Location
- Foley Park (ME14, ME15, ME16)
- Region
- Kent
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
From enquiry to sign-off
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then the work is carried out to the specified product and detail, and we finish with a walk round so the work can be signed off. For a site in Foley Park, we plan so the whole job is done in one go where possible. Clear photos and measurements help us bring the right products.
- 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.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- 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.
What we need from you
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Move anything stored against the joints
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
Get a fixed quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.
Related advice
When something else is needed
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. Sealant alone won’t deal with:
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
Not sure which it is? You can call 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly.
What we seal
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Fire stopping around Foley Park: points for this area
A 2-mile radius around Foley Park takes in plenty of hotels. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close. Fire stopping of openings and penetrations in England falls under Approved Document B. References to the older BS 476 classes are being removed from it from 2 September 2029, after which the European classification, BS EN 13501-2, is the route, subject to transitional arrangements. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail.
For a unit at a site such as Viewpoint Industrial Estate, 0.6 miles north-east of Foley Park, new power or data runs between office and warehouse can breach a compartment wall. Residences at universities like University for the Creative Arts, 1.6 miles to the south-west of Foley Park, have compartment walls that must be resealed whenever services change. At a healthcare site like KIMS Hospital, 1.1 miles east of Foley Park, new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal.
Foley Park is about 1 mile north of Maidstone, in Kent. We cover Foley Park and the rest of Kent, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Foley Park is one of 931 places we cover in Kent for service penetrations. London is covered too, some 31 miles away.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout ME14, ME15 and ME16. Buildings on Well Road, Rock Road and Byron Road are within our area. Main routes into Foley Park include the A249, useful when we plan access and materials. Nearby places we also cover include Penenden Heath (1 mile north-east), Harbourland (1 mile north), Grove Green (1 mile east), Ringlestone (1 mile north-west) and Maidstone (1 mile south). A short drive away, we cover Sittingbourne (10 miles north-east), Sevenoaks (15 miles west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (15 miles south-west), Gravesend (12 miles north-west), Tonbridge (12 miles south-west) and Northfleet (13 miles north-west).
Around Foley Park
We work on buildings around Valley Park School, Vinters Valley Park and The Hollybush Public House, among other places. Foley Park’s nearest station is Maidstone East station, about 0.6 miles south-west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Museum (0.6 miles south-west) and KIMS hospital (1.1 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Burham Down and Boxley Hills.
Also near Foley Park
What else we do in Foley Park
Doing it in-house
There’s also the paperwork. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and our CSCS-carded applicators are used to working under those rules.
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
Drylining partitions
Plasterboard partitions are tested as a specific construction. We check that the product’s detail covers that partition type and board thickness before sealing.
Metal pipes
Heat travels along metal pipework, and some details add wrapping or a set length of insulation. If the detail needs something beyond sealant, we tell you.
Maintenance after handover
Cleaning and maintenance staff play a part too. Pass these on to them:
- Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
- Record which product was used where
Once the seals are in, tell other trades they exist and must not be disturbed. Any seal cut back for a new service needs reinstating to its tested detail.
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.
Questions we’re asked in Foley Park
What happens to BS 476 references for fire stopping in Foley Park?
Approved Document B loses its BS 476 references from 2 September 2029, and BS EN 13501-2 becomes the route, subject to transitional arrangements. Whichever applies, we install the specified product to its tested detail; the specification is for the designer to set.
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as KIMS Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No. Sealing over old material is one of the classic causes of early joint failure, so it all comes out first.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, with one point of contact.
Will you come and look before quoting?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a visit before quoting.
How long before the joints can be used?
We will confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure.
How do we ask for a quote?
You can use the quote form on this site; alternatively, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos. Include photographs or drawings if you have them.