Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Hare Green, Essex
Sealant work in Hare Green for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, quoted at a fixed price.
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
Fire stopping across Hare Green
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Looking after the joints
Regular inspection catches problems early. Specifically:
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
- Keep general-purpose fillers away from compartment walls
- Settle who seals which penetrations at the start of a project
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
Keep the product data and installation details with the building’s fire safety information. It makes later repairs much easier to match.
Looking at service areas on a regular cycle pays off. Catching a damaged seal early keeps the fix small.
How we handle fire stopping in Hare Green
Every service that crosses a compartment wall or floor leaves an opening, and that opening needs sealing to hold back fire and smoke. Our job is fitting fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those service penetrations, and along linear gaps, where it is the specified product. Each seal follows the manufacturer’s tested detail rather than guesswork. If you have non-fire-rated filler around services and fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back, we can put it right. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Hare Green tend to want the same three things: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
Barn and farm-building conversions near places like Hare Green often combine new partitions with old walls. Where a pipe or cable passes through a fire-resisting wall, the seal must match the tested detail: product, substrate, gap and depth.
Every job is signed off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Hare Green (CO7)
- Wider area
- Essex
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Towns and villages near Hare Green
What else we do in Hare Green
Questions we are asked in Hare Green
Can work at a site such as University of Essex fit around teaching?
Yes. Education sites typically want the work in vacations or in phases during term, and we plan to suit. Let us know which documents your site asks for, and we’ll confirm them alongside the quote.
Is Hare Green too small for you to travel to?
Not at all. Hare Green is within our area. We work across Greater London and the South East. Send photographs and a list of what needs doing, and we will plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. We’re fully insured, and the certificate can go with your quote.
What do BS EN 1366-3 and BS EN 13501-2 mean?
In short, BS EN 1366-3 and 1366-4 are the fire tests and BS EN 13501-2 is how results are classified. An EI 60 seal kept its integrity and insulation for 60 minutes as tested.
Do you work in Scotland as well as England?
Our area runs from Greater London and the South East to every part of Scotland. In Scotland, clause 2.1.14 of the non-domestic Technical Handbook says service penetrations should keep at least the fire resistance of the wall or floor, using products tested for their end use.
What happens if old sealant might contain asbestos?
The duty to manage asbestos sits with the building’s dutyholder, so we will ask for the register before work on an older building. If anything suspect turns up, we stop until it’s tested.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes. The 12-month guarantee covers our preparation and application, but not damage, misuse or other trades’ work.
How the job changes by surface
Risers and ceiling voids
Openings above suspended ceilings are easy to miss. We work through the areas on your schedule methodically, and note anything we find that isn’t on it.
Linear joints
Head-of-wall gaps, slab edges and wall junctions are linear joints. Their tested detail, under BS EN 1366-4, sets the width, depth, backing and movement allowed and the installation has to fit inside those limits.
What we can’t put right
Not every problem is a sealant problem, and we’re upfront when that’s the case. It won’t fix:
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
If you are not sure, just call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Commercial clients in Hare Green
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we make supplier vetting simple. We’re fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
Blocks and communal areas make up much of the work for housing associations and agents. We phase the work so people keep access, and each stage is agreed with your contact.
On site: what to expect
A typical day starts with protection: tape along each joint edge and covers over finishes, stock and equipment close by. The work itself typically takes anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access, and our waste is bagged and taken away as we go. For work around Hare Green, we aim to finish in one visit, so we ask for photos and rough sizes first. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out first.
- Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
- We tell you about openings that need a different product.
What we need from you
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Request a quote
Send us photographs, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
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Where services cross fire walls in Hare Green
Approved Document B is the English guidance that covers fire stopping around openings and penetrations. From 2 September 2029, BS 476 references are being taken out of Approved Document B, leaving BS EN 13501-2 classification as the route, subject to the Government’s transitional arrangements. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail. Hare Green lies roughly 55 miles out from central London. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls.
In a building such as Church of St George, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail. Office fit-outs on sites such as Plough Road Business Centre (2.5 miles south-east of Hare Green) add cabling and pipework through fire-resisting walls, and fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it. In a school such as St George's Church of England Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified.
Hare Green is about 6 miles east of Colchester, in Essex. We cover commercial sites throughout Hare Green, for single jobs and planned programmes alike. Hare Green is one of 644 places we cover in Essex for service penetrations. For work in that direction, see our London page (55 miles or so).
We take on service penetrations across the CO7 postcode area, whatever the building. Among the streets we cover are Back Lane East, Harwich Road and Meadow Close, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Just outside Hare Green, we also work in Balls Green (1 mile south), Cowey Green (1 mile north), Frating Green (1 mile south), Great Bromley (1 mile north-west) and Monkey Street (1 mile east). Bigger towns within reach include Colchester (6 miles west), Clacton-on-Sea (7 miles south-east), Harwich (10 miles east), Camulodunum (7 miles west), Greenstead (4 miles west) and Tiptree (13 miles west).
Around Hare Green
Recent enquiries here include premises near Old Courthouse Inn. Hare Green’s nearest station is Great Bentley station, roughly 2.4 miles south-east. Well-known places in the area include Wivenhoe Chapel Museum (3.5 miles south-west). Open spaces near Hare Green include Cockaynes Wood.
What sets the cost
Sealant work doesn’t have a standard rate, since sites vary so much. What we take into account:
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- How much there is to seal
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
Cost follows what’s involved: removing old material, preparing the joints, the product, the access and how the work is phased. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll explain how it’s made up.
Before you send an enquiry
We can often quote from photographs and a few details. It helps to include:
- Specification clauses that apply
- The type of building and who uses it
- Any dates the work must fit around
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.