Fire Stopping in Foulford
Fire stopping for Foulford, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
Fire stopping in Foulford
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
How we handle fire stopping in Foulford
Every service that crosses a compartment wall or floor leaves an opening, and that opening needs sealing to hold back fire and smoke. Our part is installing fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those openings and along linear gaps, where the specification calls for it. We work to the product’s tested detail for every seal rather than guesswork. If you have non-fire-rated filler around services and seals that don’t match their tested detail, we can help, on service gaps in risers, cable penetrations and pipe penetrations alike. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, in Foulford it comes down to the same thing: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Smaller places such as Foulford still have buildings with fire-resisting walls and floors: schools, halls, care homes and commercial conversions. If sealant is what the specification names, we install it around the services exactly as the maker’s detail sets out.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: the preparation, the sealing and the tooling. Damage, later alterations by others and movement beyond what the joint was designed for sit outside it.
- Location
- Foulford (BH24)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Foulford: questions and answers
Will you work in a care home in Foulford without moving residents out?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Any site rules, from signing in to infection control, are agreed before we start.
Is Platinum Jubilee Business Park, near Foulford, within your area?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Foulford, Platinum Jubilee Business Park among them, are all within reach. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Is Foulford in your area?
Yes. Foulford falls within our area, and you can call 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form to get started.
Are you members of a third-party fire-stopping installer scheme?
No. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and our applicators are CSCS-carded. If your contract requires third-party installer certification, we’re not the right fit for that package.
What if there’s asbestos in the old mastic?
Managing asbestos is the dutyholder’s responsibility, so we will ask for the register before work on an older building. Work pauses if suspect material is found, until it has been tested.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, with one point of contact.
What does an EI 60 rating mean?
Penetration seals are tested to BS EN 1366-3 and linear joint seals to BS EN 1366-4. Results are classified under BS EN 13501-2 as E for integrity and I for insulation, with a time such as EI 60 or EI 120. The rating applies to the product as tested.
Compartments and services around Foulford
The 2 miles around Foulford include three care or nursing homes. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal. For England, the fire stopping of penetrations is dealt with in Approved Document B. The national BS 476 classes are due to drop out of it from 2 September 2029, leaving the European BS EN 13501-2 route, subject to transitional arrangements. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail.
Older community buildings such as St John the Baptist that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification. Tenant changes at parks like Platinum Jubilee Business Park, 1.6 miles west of Foulford, bring new data and services, and openings through fire-resisting walls need the specified seal.
Foulford is in Hampshire. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Foulford can call on us for service penetrations. We work across 723 places in Hampshire, from busy centres to rural villages. Sites around Southampton have their own page, roughly 16 miles from Foulford.
Commercial sites across BH24 are covered. If your building is just outside Foulford, we cover Forest Corner (1 mile north-west), Shobley (1 mile north), Hangersley (1 mile north-west), Hightown (1 mile south-west) and Poulner (1 mile west). Bigger towns within reach include Totton (11 miles north-east), Lymington (11 miles south-east), Romsey (15 miles north-east), Hythe (15 miles east), New Milton (7 miles south-east) and Barton on Sea (8 miles south-east).
Near you in Foulford
Nearby you’ll also find St Leonard's Hospital (5.5 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s Blashford Lakes and Linbrook Lake.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. 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. If others near Foulford need work, visits can be combined, which keeps travel down. You’ll have a fixed quote before work starts.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send and ask about anything unclear.
- On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
- Unsuitable fillers and loose debris are taken out of each opening.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- We apply the specified sealant to the depth and around the services as the detail shows.
- If an opening needs something other than sealant, we tell you instead of improvising.
Getting the site ready
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Request a quote
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints and a fixed quote comes back to you. Where a site visit makes more sense, we will arrange one.
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Common problems we fix in Foulford
Fire stopping can get squeezed at the end of a programme, or done by whoever is on site. That is when untested combinations creep in, which then have to be put right.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
At a healthcare site like St Leonard's Hospital (5.5 miles south-west of Foulford), new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal.
What to look for in a quote
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- The named product and why it was chosen
- How the existing material will be dealt with
Places near Foulford
More services for Foulford
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are easy to get wrong without experience.
For most general trades, sealant is a sideline. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
When something else is needed
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’d rather tell you before you spend money. It won’t fix:
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
If you are not sure, just give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
Why it’s worth doing now in Foulford
Leave a penetration open and smoke and fire can cross into the next compartment far earlier than intended. Putting it right is normally a modest job when the openings are accessible. Wait until ceilings close or areas are occupied and the same work becomes harder to reach. Converted and older buildings near places like Foulford tend to move, and aged sealant cracks. The right product, sized to the joint, copes much better.
The product called for affects the cost, as does the preparation each joint needs. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
Why clients in Foulford choose us
- CSCS-carded applicators
- Constructionline member
- Products installed to the manufacturer’s instructions
- CHAS accredited
Read our cost guide and how we’re accredited.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Foulford can form part of a wider programme.
Building owners and managing agents use us on everything from one building to a spread of sites. Several sites can go on one quote, which keeps the paperwork simple.