Fire stopping in Great Shefford
Sealant work in Great Shefford for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, with a fixed quote first.
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
Need fire stopping in Great Shefford?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Fire stopping in Great Shefford, done properly
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. We work on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and cable penetrations, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are openings left by services added after handover and fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back. Whoever orders the work in Great Shefford, the brief is typically the same: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
A job near Great Shefford is normally planned around one visit, with the specification and photos sent in advance. We install to the specification and the manufacturer’s guidance, leaving design and sign-off with the designer and building control.
The 12-month guarantee is for workmanship rather than wear and tear. How long a sealant joint lasts depends on movement, exposure, cleaning and use, so we spell out the cover before we begin.
- Place
- Great Shefford (RG17)
- Region
- West Berkshire
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
FAQs: Great Shefford
Do you decide the fire-stopping details for buildings in Great Shefford?
No. Fire-stopping design and sign-off belong to the designer, principal designer, fire engineer or building control. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail.
How does the removal of BS 476 from Approved Document B affect fire-rated sealing in Great Shefford?
References to BS 476 classes are being removed from Approved Document B from 2 September 2029, after which BS EN 13501-2 classification is 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.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and we will price the work to it.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, and you deal with one contact throughout.
Can you fit around our working hours?
The office is staffed Monday to Friday, from 8am until 5pm. Let us know your site hours and access windows, and the work will be planned around them.
Do you guarantee your work?
Yes, for 12 months. If a joint fails because of how we installed it, we come back and put it right.
Do you work in Great Shefford?
Yes. Great Shefford falls within our area, and the simplest way to start is to give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Our process
Before we leave any area, we remove the tape, clean down and inspect every joint, ready for your sign-off. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out. Smaller jobs around Great Shefford can be grouped with others nearby. 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.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
Get a fixed quote
A handful of photos and a postcode is the fastest way to a quote. Send them through the quote form, or speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos if you’d rather talk the job through.
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What sets the cost
Before we quote, we look at:
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Access and working height
- The total length or number of joints
Whether it’s a single area or a whole estate, the same things set the price: what’s in scope, how we reach it, what’s specified and when it needs doing. Call for a quote, and you’ll have a fixed figure to work with.
Details that help us quote
There’s no need for a formal survey. These details are enough to start:
- The product your specification calls for
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Approximate linear metres or a joint schedule
- Your programme or deadline
A good quote starts with a clear picture: the joints involved, quantities, access and the product called for. Share whatever details you have and we will fill any gaps with a visit.
Towns and villages near Great Shefford
What else we do in Great Shefford
Honest limits
Being straight saves everyone time. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
If you’re not sure, just give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Surfaces we seal
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
Penetration seals near Great Shefford
Great Shefford lies roughly 58 miles out from central London. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. 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. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail.
In a school such as Shefford C.E. Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified.
Great Shefford is about 8 miles north-west of Newbury, in West Berkshire. Our applicators travel to Great Shefford for work on service penetrations. Great Shefford is one of 140 places we cover in West Berkshire. For work in that direction, see our Reading page.
Business premises anywhere in RG17 are within our area. Among the streets we cover are Station Road, The Mead and Miller's Field, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Sites close to Great Shefford are covered too, including East Shefford (1 mile south-east), Weston (1 mile south-east), East Garston (2 miles north-west), Shefford Woodlands (2 miles south-west) and East Garston Woodlands (2 miles west). A short drive away, we cover Newbury (8 miles south-east), Thatcham (10 miles south-east), Speenhamland (7 miles south-east), Hungerford (5 miles south-west), Lambourn (4 miles north-west) and Shaw (7 miles south-east).
Around Great Shefford
Green spaces nearby include Sole Common Pond.
Do you need fire stopping in Great Shefford?
Mixing products or improvising a detail breaks the link with the test evidence. An oversized gap, too shallow a bead, missing backing or two makers’ products combined are what we find most often.
Clients usually get in touch after noticing one or more of the following:
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
In a building such as Church of St Mary, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail.
What to look for in a quote
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- Is the sealant right for the movement and the substrate?
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
Looking after the joints
Your facilities or cleaning team can help the joints last. Pass these on to them:
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
- Record which product was used where
- Ask the designer to confirm details early on refits
Allow the manufacturer’s stated cure time before boxing in or decorating. Some fire-rated sealants accept paint and some don’t.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. When a new service goes through, everyone knows which product and detail to match.
Different surfaces, different methods
Linear joints
Joints at the top of partitions may need to move as the slab above deflects. The specified product and backing for that movement are what goes in.
Plastic pipes
Plastic pipes soften and collapse in a fire. Small sizes are sometimes covered by an intumescent sealant detail, but many need a collar or wrap. We confirm material and size first and tell you if sealant isn’t the right product.