Fire stopping in High Brooms
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in High Brooms. Send photos or drawings for a fixed quote.
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping in High Brooms
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
How a job runs
A typical day starts with protection: masking tape along the joint edges and sheeting over anything nearby. On site, the work typically takes anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access, and we clear our waste as we work. Several jobs near High Brooms can be grouped on one trip. Mention the building’s opening times and we will work within them.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- We gun the sealant in to the specified depth around each service and tool it.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
Before we start on site
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
Get a fixed quote
A handful of photos and a postcode is the fastest way to a quote. Upload them with the quote form, or call 01277 525 020 or use the quote form if you’d rather talk the job through.
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Fire stopping for commercial buildings in High Brooms
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email the details over with the schedule or marked-up drawings. Tell us what records you need and we will confirm with the quote. Most enquiries involve seals that don’t match their tested detail and non-fire-rated filler around services, on service gaps in risers, pipe penetrations and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: on jobs in High Brooms, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
Around smaller places like High Brooms, many commercial buildings are conversions or extensions of older ones, so it’s worth confirming the wall or floor type before choosing the seal. We match the product to the substrate and service, and say so if a collar, wrap or batt is the specified item.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. That covers our preparation and application.
- Place
- High Brooms (TN2, TN4, TN1)
- Region
- Kent
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Where services cross fire walls in High Brooms
High Brooms lies roughly 29 miles out 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. A 2-mile radius around High Brooms takes in plenty of hotels. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
Workshops and IT rooms at colleges like West Kent College (2.6 miles north of High Brooms) are re-serviced often, leaving penetrations to seal. Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Tunbridge Wells Nuffield Hospital (to the south of High Brooms) the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product. Hotels such as The George Hotel, 1.2 miles south-west of High Brooms, rely on fire-resisting walls between bedrooms and corridors, and refits that add services leave penetrations to seal where fire-rated sealant is specified.
High Brooms is about 1 mile north-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. If you’re looking for fire stopping in High Brooms, we can help, as we do across Kent. High Brooms is one of 931 places we cover in Kent for service penetrations. Brighton is covered too, some 28 miles away.
We take on service penetrations across the TN2, TN4 and TN1 postcode area, for business premises of every kind. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Oak Road, Brook Road and Caley Road. If your building is just outside High Brooms, we cover Southborough (1 mile north-west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (1 mile south-west), Hawkenbury (2 miles south), Stockland Green (2 miles west) and Bidborough (2 miles north-west). A short drive away, we cover Maidstone (14 miles north-east), Sevenoaks (10 miles north-west), Tonbridge (3 miles north), Kings Hill (10 miles north-east), Foley Park (14 miles north-east) and Paddock Wood (5 miles east).
What’s near High Brooms
Around High Brooms, our work takes us to commercial buildings near St Gregory's Catholic School, Hilbert Woods and Longbow Court pub and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in High Brooms itself: High Brooms station. A little further out are Kent and Sussex Hospital (1.2 miles south-west) and Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery (1.2 miles south-west). The countryside around High Brooms includes Tudeley Woods RSPB reserve and Barden Lake.
For managing agents and facilities managers
Whether you are a managing agent, a property factor or an owner’s representative: send the details, accept a fixed quote, and we carry out and guarantee the work. Keys, access and contacts can be agreed in advance.
Facilities managers want contractors who arrive with the paperwork sorted. Let us know the documents you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we’ll confirm them with the quote.
Maintenance after handover
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
Give the sealant its full cure time before ceilings, boxing or decoration go over it. Some fire-rated sealants accept paint and some don’t, and the data sheet says which.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. When a new service goes through, everyone knows which product and detail to match.
Cost factors for service penetrations
What shapes the price:
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- The total length or number of joints
- The size and state of each joint
- Access and working height
The price depends on how many linear metres there are, what has to come out first and the access. Call for a quote when you’re ready.
Before you send an enquiry
However big the job, the same details help:
- The postcode of the building
- Specification clauses that apply
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- The type of building and who uses it
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and a fixed quote will follow. The easiest way is to speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
General trades versus a specialist
The visible bead is only part of the job. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
Some joints are best left to specialists: for instance fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. Getting these wrong normally costs more in the end than doing them right.
When it isn’t the sealant
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
If you’re not sure, just call 01277 525 020 or email us and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
Questions we are asked in High Brooms
How does the removal of BS 476 from Approved Document B affect fire-rated sealing in High Brooms?
From 2 September 2029, Approved Document B drops its BS 476 references in favour of BS EN 13501-2 classification, with transitional arrangements. The designer or fire engineer sets the specification, and we install the product to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
Can you work on a hospital site such as Tunbridge Wells Nuffield Hospital?
Yes, hospitals are one of the sectors we cover. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. If you need card details for site access, tell us and we will confirm them with the quote.
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.
Can staff carry on working while you’re here?
Yes, as long as we plan it. Tell us your site hours and access windows and we will plan around them.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes. It runs for twelve months and covers how we prepared and sealed the joints, though not damage or work by other trades.
How do I request a quote?
You can use the quote form on this site; alternatively, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email the details over. Include photos or drawings if you have them.