Goodworth Clatford fire stopping
Sealant work in Goodworth Clatford for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, quoted at a fixed price.
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
Need fire stopping in Goodworth Clatford?
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Goodworth Clatford
Facilities managers in Goodworth Clatford often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. Where the walls and floors already have a fire-stopping specification, we can work to it using the product and detail it sets out. Where there isn’t one, the designer or fire engineer needs to set one first. Most enquiries involve openings left by services added after handover and open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls, across joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and cable penetrations. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Goodworth Clatford from the first photographs to the final walk-round, whether it’s one building or several.
Smaller places such as Goodworth Clatford 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.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Location
- Goodworth Clatford (SP11)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Cost factors for service penetrations
Quotes vary with the job. It mainly depends on:
- The total length or number of joints
- Working within restricted access windows
- Access and working height
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
What a job costs comes down to the quantity of joints, how much old material needs removing and how the joints are reached. Call for a fixed quote once you have the details.
What we need to price the job
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, the same details help:
- Your programme or deadline
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
- Where the site is, with the postcode
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we will price against exactly what is specified. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photographs and a few notes.
Our process
The first thing on site is a walk round with your contact, to confirm the scope, the order of work and any areas we must keep clear. After that, any old or failed material is removed, each joint is prepared and the new sealant goes in. If others near Goodworth Clatford need work, visits can be combined. You’ll have a fixed quote before work starts.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send and ask about anything unclear.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing goes in wherever the detail asks.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
- Move anything stored against the joints
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
Quotes
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. The first step is to call 01277 525 020 or use the quote form with what you know.
Related advice
What happens if it’s left?
An open or wrongly sealed service penetration lets fire and smoke reach the next compartment much sooner than the building was designed for. While the openings can be reached, sealing them is normally straightforward. Left until ceilings are closed or a tenant moves in, the same work costs more access and more disruption. For buildings around smaller places like Goodworth Clatford, water damage can go unnoticed for longer, especially where a building isn’t used daily, which gives a failed joint time to do damage. Resealing early avoids that.
We don’t publish prices, because the scope varies so much from one building to the next. Call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
Why us?
- Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Clear, fixed quotes
- Old sealant cut out, never sealed over
Goodworth Clatford: questions and answers
Does your area include sites such as Anton Business Park, near Goodworth Clatford?
Yes. We cover Goodworth Clatford and the area around it, including industrial estates, business parks and retail parks such as Anton Business Park. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Is hospital work, at somewhere like Andover Hospital (Grounds), something you do?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. The estates team’s permit system and infection-control rules come first, and the work is planned around them.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Requirements differ from site to site, so tell us what you need and we will confirm it when we quote.
Do you approve fire stopping for building control?
No. Sign-off isn’t ours to give, and we don’t hold a third-party installer certificate. Our part is fitting the specified product to its tested detail.
Does the weather affect the work?
It can, when the joints are outside. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Internal work is far less affected.
Who decides which product is used?
If the job is specified, we follow the specification. Otherwise, we recommend a product to suit the joint’s movement, the substrate and the conditions, following the manufacturer’s guidance.
What will the job cost?
It depends on the job: quantities, access, the product and any phasing. Call for a quote.
Fire-rated sealing for Goodworth Clatford buildings
For England, the fire stopping of penetrations is dealt with in 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. What we install is set by the specification, and it goes in to the tested detail. Goodworth Clatford is about 64 miles from central London. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls.
For a building such as Church of St Peter, new heating or data runs are the usual reason penetrations need sealing. Office fit-outs on sites such as Anton Business Park (1.8 miles north of Goodworth Clatford) add cabling and pipework through fire-resisting walls, and fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it.
Goodworth Clatford is about 2 miles south of Andover, in Hampshire. Our applicators travel to Goodworth Clatford for work on service penetrations. 723 places across Hampshire fall within our area, including Goodworth Clatford. Southampton is covered too, around 18 miles from Goodworth Clatford.
We cover the SP11 postcode districts for service penetrations. Among the streets we cover are St Annes Close, Longstock Road and Burdock Close. Close to Goodworth Clatford, our area also takes in Wherwell Wood (1 mile east), Upper Clatford (1 mile north), Cottonworth (2 miles south-east), Fullerton (2 miles south-east) and Wherwell (2 miles east). Bigger towns within reach include Winchester (11 miles south-east), Chandler's Ford (14 miles south), Romsey (13 miles south), Hyde (11 miles south-east), Tidworth (9 miles north-west) and Weeke (10 miles south-east).
Near you in Goodworth Clatford
In Goodworth Clatford, that means premises near John Hanson Community School, Redrice School and Royal Oak pub, among other places. The nearest railway station is Andover station, about 2.4 miles north of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Andover Museum (2.4 miles north) and Andover War Memorial Hospital (2.7 miles north). Not far away are Mill Lake and Anton Lakes.
What we’re called out for in Goodworth Clatford
Some service penetrations were never sealed at all. Inspections, refurbishments and ceiling access usually bring them to light.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Hospital estates such as Andover Hospital (Grounds), 2.7 miles north of Goodworth Clatford, are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail.
Before you book anyone
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- Who will actually carry out the work
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
Places near Goodworth Clatford
What else we do in Goodworth Clatford
Different surfaces, different methods
Metal pipes
Metal pipes conduct heat, so their details often call for extra measures along the pipe, and some details add wrapping or a set length of insulation. If the detail needs something beyond sealant, we tell you.
Masonry and concrete
Openings through concrete vary from tidy cores to rough break-outs. Each gap is measured where it is widest so we know it sits within the tested range.
Honest limits
Honesty saves time and money. New sealant won’t cure:
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
Not sure which it is? You can give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations