Fire Stopping in Hamble-le-Rice
Need fire stopping in Hamble-le-Rice? Send us the details for a fixed quote, backed by a 12-month guarantee on the work.
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
Need fire stopping in Hamble-le-Rice?
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
How we handle fire stopping in Hamble-le-Rice
Opened ceilings and riser doors often reveal service openings nobody sealed. If a specification already covers those walls and floors, we can reseal to it. With no specification in place, the first step sits with your designer or fire engineer, not with us. The enquiries we see most involve head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal and improvised or mixed-product fire seals, across joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, pipe penetrations and cable penetrations. For commercial sealant work in Hamble-le-Rice, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, whether it’s one building or several.
Converted and extended buildings around places like Hamble-le-Rice can mix old and new construction, so it’s worth confirming the wall or floor type before choosing the seal. The right product depends on the wall or floor and the services passing through, and we will tell you if the detail calls for something other than sealant.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. That covers our preparation and application, and we come back if anything isn’t right.
- Location
- Hamble-le-Rice (SO31)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Hamble-le-Rice: questions and answers
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Fareham Community Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Before anything starts, the estates team agrees permits, inductions and infection-control measures with us.
Is Hamble-le-Rice too far out for you?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Send photos and a list of what needs doing, and we’ll plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
How long does a job like this take?
That varies with the scale of the job, though a typical visit normally takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building. For bigger or phased jobs, we’ll set out a timescale with the quote.
What does an EI 60 rating mean?
The tests are BS EN 1366-3 for penetrations and BS EN 1366-4 for linear joints, and classification is to BS EN 13501-2. EI 60 means integrity and insulation for 60 minutes in the tested arrangement.
Can you fire stop behind the services contractors?
Yes, where there is a specification for those walls and floors. New services after M&E works often breach existing seals, and we reseal them to the specified detail.
When is resealing likely to be due?
There’s no fixed lifespan: movement, exposure, cleaning, traffic and the product all play a part. Treat them as maintenance items and inspect them regularly.
What site paperwork can you supply?
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.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
The visible bead is only part of the job. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are easy to get wrong without experience.
How the job changes by surface
Masonry and concrete
Openings through concrete vary from tidy cores to rough break-outs. Each gap is measured where it is widest against the detail’s limits, and any outside it are raised with you.
Cables and cable bundles
New data and power cables are the most common breach we see. Openings around new cables are resealed to the detail, and we tell you if the bundle exceeds what sealant covers.
Quoting for work in Hamble-le-Rice
A fixed quote reflects the actual work. It allows for:
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- The total length or number of joints
- The site’s rules and procedures
- The product specified
No two sites price the same: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Sending details for a quote
However big the job, the same details help:
- When you need the work done
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Clear photographs of the problem areas
- Any specification or named product
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? Send the scope and any drawings, and we will return a fixed quote you can plan around. If you have questions first, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Fire-rated sealing for Hamble-le-Rice buildings
Hamble-le-Rice is about 69 miles from central London. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls; the gaps need the specified seal. Approved Document B is the English guidance that covers fire stopping around 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 Hamble Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified. For a building such as Church of St Andrew, new heating or data runs are the usual reason penetrations need sealing.
Hamble-le-Rice is about 3 miles east of Hythe, in Hampshire. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Hamble-le-Rice can call on us for service penetrations. Hamble-le-Rice is one of 723 places we cover in Hampshire.
If you need fire stopping in SO31, the process matches everywhere else we work: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. For a building on High Street, College Close and Deanfield Close or nearby, send details and we’ll quote for service penetrations. Hamble-le-Rice sits on or close to the B3397, useful when we plan access and materials. Just outside Hamble-le-Rice, we also work in Hound (1 mile north-west), Butlocks Heath (1 mile north-west), Netley (2 miles north-west), Bursledon (2 miles north) and Old Netley (2 miles north). Nearby towns on our patch include Winchester (14 miles north), Gosport (8 miles south-east), Havant (15 miles east), Eastleigh (7 miles north), Fareham (6 miles east) and Horndean (14 miles east).
Near you in Hamble-le-Rice
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Hamble School, Hamble Common and Ye Old White Harte Public House and the streets around them. The closest station to Hamble-le-Rice is Hamble station, roughly 0.8 miles north of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Coldeast (1.9 miles east) and St Andrew's Castle (0.6 miles south-east). Green spaces nearby include Mercury Marshes.
Owners, agents and contractors
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end, plus a 12-month guarantee.
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. Work can be phased so residents and staff keep access throughout, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
Signs you need fire stopping in Hamble-le-Rice
Mixing products or improvising a detail breaks the link with the test evidence. Gaps beyond the tested size, shallow sealant, no backing where it was needed, or products from different systems mixed together are the usual culprits.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
For a building at a site such as Ensign Way Business Park (less than half a mile south-west of Hamble-le-Rice), a check of penetration seals after each fit-out is good practice.
Comparing quotes
- Who will actually carry out the work
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- The named product and why it was chosen
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On site: what to expect
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. We sign and contain the area we are in, keep walkways clear and work section by section so the rest of the building stays in use. What matters most for a job in Hamble-le-Rice is a clear list of what needs doing, so send photos of each area. You will then get a fixed price for the work.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out.
- The specified backing and sealant go in to depth and are finished neatly.
- We tell you about openings that need a different product.
Before we start on site
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Ask for 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.