Fire Stopping in Highbrook
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Highbrook and the surrounding area. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
Fire stopping for Highbrook sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Leave it or put it right?
A seal that doesn’t match its tested detail gives false comfort. The fix is to remove it and reinstall to the detail, and doing it once, properly, is cheaper. One visit to deal with every failing joint makes more sense than several trips to a place like Highbrook. Send photos of each area and we will quote for the lot.
The price depends on the quantity of joints, what has to come out first and the access. Call for a fixed quote once you have the details.
Why clients in Highbrook choose us
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- Our applicators hold CSCS cards
- Fixed quotes based on photos, drawings or a visit
- Failed material removed, not covered up
Read how commercial sealant jobs are priced and our accreditations.
Fire stopping in Highbrook
Facilities managers in Highbrook often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. Where the walls and floors already have a fire-stopping specification, we can work to it using the product and detail it sets out. Where there isn’t one, the designer or fire engineer needs to set one first. The enquiries we see most involve fire sealant pulled out of the opening and seals disturbed by maintenance and left open, on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and cable penetrations. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Highbrook from the first photographs to the final walk-round, whether it’s one building or several.
Smaller places such as Highbrook 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.
Work we carry out comes with a 12-month guarantee. Should something we installed fail, phone 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we’ll come back to it.
- Location
- Highbrook (RH17)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
For managing agents and facilities managers
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. We quote a fixed sum, confirm the scope and walk the finished work with you or your representative, plus a 12-month guarantee.
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Highbrook can sit alongside others in a wider programme.
What we can’t put right
Before quoting, we check that sealant is the right answer. It won’t put right:
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
- Fire doors, dampers or other fire safety equipment
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
If you are not sure, just phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will give you a straight answer.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
How a job runs
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. We sign and contain the area we are in, with routes through the building left open and move on in phases so staff and visitors can carry on around us. Jobs in and around smaller places like Highbrook are usually planned as a single 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.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Getting the site ready
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
Request a quote
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, call the office on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
Related advice
Surface by surface
Plastic pipes
Plastic waste pipes through slabs come up often. The detail decides whether sealant alone is enough, and we will never swap a specified collar for sealant.
Masonry and concrete
Openings through concrete vary from tidy cores to rough break-outs. The gap is measured at the widest point against the detail’s limits.
Fire stopping in Highbrook: the local picture
Fire stopping of openings and penetrations in England falls under Approved Document B. 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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail. Central London is about 31 miles from Highbrook. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls.
Hospital estates such as Princess Royal Hospital, 4.6 miles south of Highbrook, are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail. Older community buildings such as All Saints Church that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification. In a school such as St Peter's CofE Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified.
Highbrook is about 4 miles north-east of Haywards Heath, in West Sussex. Looking for fire stopping in Highbrook? We can help, as we do across West Sussex. Highbrook is one of 373 places in West Sussex on our list for service penetrations. Sites around Brighton have their own page, about 16 miles away.
Business premises anywhere in RH17 are within our area. Just outside Highbrook, we also work in Ardingly (1 mile south-west), Little London (1 mile west), Sharpthorne (2 miles north), West Hoathly (2 miles north) and Horsted Keynes (2 miles south-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Crawley (7 miles north-west), Horsham (11 miles west), Haywards Heath (4 miles south-west), Burgess Hill (7 miles south-west), East Grinstead (5 miles north) and Broadfield (7 miles north-west).
Around Highbrook
In Highbrook, that means premises near The Ardingly Inn, among other places. Highbrook’s nearest station is Balcombe station, about 3.4 miles west. Well-known places in the area include Princess Royal Hospital (4.6 miles south) and Parish Museum (2.8 miles south). Green spaces nearby include Blunts Wood and Paiges Meadow.
Cost factors for service penetrations
Sealant work doesn’t have a standard rate, because every site is different. What we take into account:
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Any access equipment needed
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: 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.
Before you send an enquiry
A good diagnosis starts with the right details. Tell us:
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- The site address and postcode
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. The first step is to phone 01277 525 020 or use the quote form with what you know.
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Questions about Highbrook
Is Highbrook off your patch?
Not at all. Highbrook is within our area. We work across Greater London and the South East. Good photos up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
How does the move away from BS 476 affect penetration seals in Highbrook?
From 2 September 2029, Approved Document B drops its BS 476 references in favour of BS EN 13501-2 classification, with transitional arrangements. Whichever applies, we install the specified product to its tested detail; the specification is for the designer to set.
Can you quote from photographs?
It depends on the job. Simple work can often be priced from photos, while larger or less clear jobs get a site visit first.
What hours do you work?
Give us your site hours and any access windows in your enquiry, and we’ll plan around them. You can reach the office between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Can staff carry on working while you are here?
In the majority of cases, yes. Phased work can be planned so areas stay in use.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and the quote will be based on it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Can one quote cover more than one building?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, with one point of contact across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.