Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Hare Street, Essex
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Hare Street and the surrounding area. Send photographs or drawings for a fixed quote.
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Penetration schedules that need working through
Fire stopping near Hare Street
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
From enquiry to sign-off
We follow your site rules from the start: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. Once we are cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. For work around Hare Street, we aim to finish in one visit, so we ask for photos and rough sizes first. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
Getting the site ready
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
Quotes
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a site visit.
Related advice
About our fire stopping in Hare Street
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with the schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. We work on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and pipe penetrations, and the failures we’re asked to look at most are damaged fire seals in risers and voids and expanding foam used as fire stopping. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: on jobs in Hare Street, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
Smaller places such as Hare Street 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 is for workmanship rather than wear and tear. How long a sealant joint lasts depends on movement, exposure, cleaning and use, so we are clear about what is covered before work starts.
- Where
- Hare Street (CM5)
- Region
- Essex
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
When to bring in a specialist
Certain joints really need a specialist: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. Getting these wrong typically costs more in the end than doing them right.
The visible bead is only part of the job. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are easy to get wrong without experience.
Places near Hare Street
Other services in Hare Street
Signs you need fire stopping in Hare Street
Some seals fail because the wrong product went in: expanding foam or a general-purpose sealant pushed into a gap to tidy it. The opening looks sealed but has no fire test evidence behind it.
Any of the following is a good reason to get the joints checked over:
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
For a building such as Church of St Margaret of Antioch, new heating or data runs are the usual reason penetrations need sealing.
Comparing quotes
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- Do they follow the manufacturer’s priming guidance?
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
Different surfaces, different methods
Small ducts
Small ductwork can sometimes be sealed with sealant where the tested detail includes it. Larger or fire-rated ductwork normally needs a different solution set by the designer.
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. The specified product and backing for that movement are what goes in.
Leave it or put it right?
An improvised seal can look finished while offering no tested performance. Correcting it means cutting it out and starting again with the specified product, and doing it once, properly, is cheaper. For buildings around smaller places like Hare Street, 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.
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 when you’re ready.
What you get with us
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Work carried out by CSCS-carded applicators
Fire stopping in Hare Street: the local picture
Hare Street lies roughly 18 miles out from central London. Tenant changes on commuter-belt business parks mean regular fit-outs, and new services through compartment walls; the gaps need the specified seal. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. 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.
Industrial units on estates such as Hallsford Bridge Industrial Estate (1.9 miles north-east of Hare Street) often separate offices from warehouse space with fire-resisting walls, and new services through them need the specified seal. Hospital estates such as Suttons Manor Hospital (to the south-west of Hare Street) are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail.
Hare Street is about 5 miles north-west of Brentwood, in Essex. We send applicators to Hare Street for service penetrations, handled exactly as we handle every other area. 644 places across Essex fall within our area, including Hare Street. Our London page has more on work in that area.
We cover the CM5 postcode districts. Nearby places we also cover include Little End (1 mile north-east), Stanford Rivers (1 mile north), Clatterford End (1 mile north-west), Marden Ash (2 miles north-east) and Navestock Heath (2 miles south). Bigger towns within reach include Chelmsford (12 miles east), Basildon (13 miles south-east), Harlow (8 miles north-west), Brentwood (5 miles south-east), Billericay (9 miles east) and Loughton (7 miles west).
Around Hare Street
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Woodman Public House and the streets around them. Well-known places in the area include St. Margaret's Hospital (4.6 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Gernon Bushes.
Hare Street: questions and answers
How does the move away from BS 476 affect penetration seals in Hare Street?
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. Our part doesn’t change: the specified product, to its tested detail.
Is a hospital such as Suttons Manor Hospital somewhere you can work?
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.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. We take on portfolio and planned maintenance work, planned site by site to suit how each building is used.
Do you have public liability insurance?
Yes. We’re fully insured, and the certificate can go with your quote.
Can the sealant be colour-matched?
In many cases, yes. Sealants are made in a wide range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or nearby finishes is commonly requested. We’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product.
Can the building stay open while you work?
Yes, with some planning. Tell us your site hours and access windows and we will plan around them.
How many days will you need on site?
The duration is planned around your programme and the access we are given. You will have an expected duration with the quote.
Quoting for work in Hare Street
What shapes the price:
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- How much existing material needs removing
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Access and working height
Pricing service penetrations depends on how many there are, their condition and the access. Ask us for a fixed quote.
What to include in your enquiry
Good information means a firmer quote. Helpful details to send:
- How the joints are reached, and at what height
- When you need the work done
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
The quickest route to a quote is a few photographs and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or call the office on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email if you’d rather talk the job through.