Fire Stopping in Horsemere Green
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Horsemere Green and across West Sussex. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
Fire stopping for Horsemere Green sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Horsemere Green, done properly
Facilities managers in Horsemere Green often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. If a specification already covers those walls and floors, we can reseal to it. Where there isn’t one, the designer or fire engineer needs to set one first. Most enquiries involve openings left by services added after handover and expanding foam used as fire stopping, on pipe penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and service gaps in risers. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Horsemere Green tend to want the same three things: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
For a smaller site near Horsemere Green, we plan to do all the penetrations in one go, with the specification and photographs sent in advance. We install to the specification and the manufacturer’s guidance, leaving design and sign-off with the designer and building control.
Every job ends the same way: guaranteed. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and the quote explains what it covers.
- Place
- Horsemere Green (BN17)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
What the job involves on each surface
Cables and cable bundles
Single cables and small bundles are often within a fire-rated sealant’s tested detail. The detail limits bundle size and the gaps between and around cables, so we check before sealing.
Risers and ceiling voids
Risers and ceiling voids hold most of a building’s service penetrations. Access to these areas is planned with you in advance, including keys, permits and any isolations.
General trades versus a specialist
Putting right a botched joint often costs more than sealing it well at the start, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.
Certain joints really need a specialist: for instance fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. Getting these wrong typically costs more in the end than doing them right.
What we can’t put right
Honesty saves time and money. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
If in doubt, call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll say what we think.
Surfaces we seal
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
Our process
Before we leave any area, we remove the tape, clean down and inspect every joint. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out. Rural sites near Horsemere Green may need directions, gate codes or a contact on site. Send that with the details and we’ll confirm the plan with the quote.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals and ask about anything unclear.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant is gunned in to the specified depth, then tooled.
- If an opening needs something other than sealant, we tell you instead of improvising.
What we need from you
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Arrange parking or a loading space
Get a fixed quote
Every quote starts with the facts: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Send what you have, and we’ll arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.
Advice
Signs you need fire stopping in Horsemere Green
A common fault is a product that was never fire-rated in the first place: 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.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
On estates like Rudford Industrial Estate (under half a mile north of Horsemere Green), the wall between office and warehouse is often fire-resisting, and cables through it need the specified seal.
What to look for in a quote
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Is the sealant right for the movement and the substrate?
- Their public liability cover
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
Your questions answered
Could you schedule work at a campus like University of Chichester (Bognor Campus) for the vacation?
Yes, holiday working periods are the norm on campus jobs. Any paperwork you need, from RAMS to our insurance certificate and CSCS details, is confirmed with the quote.
Do you work on fire-rated sealing in hotels in Horsemere Green?
Yes, where fire-rated sealant is the specified product. Each seal follows the tested detail, and rooms are done in turn.
Is colour matching possible?
That depends on the product. Some ranges are wide, others limited, so we’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, and you deal with one contact throughout.
Does the weather affect the work?
It can, for external work. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so external work may be moved if conditions aren’t right. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
How do you deal with asbestos in old sealant?
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.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No. We cut the old material out and clean the joint back before sealing, since fresh sealant will not bond reliably to aged material.
Work for main contractors and building owners
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we make supplier vetting simple. Our insurance certificate can be sent along with the quote.
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Horsemere Green can form part of a wider programme.
Places near Horsemere Green
Other services in Horsemere Green
Compartment walls and floors in Horsemere Green
Horsemere Green is about 52 miles from central London. Tenant changes on commuter-belt business parks mean regular fit-outs, and new services through compartment walls. Several hotels sit less than 2 miles from Horsemere Green. Bedroom-to-corridor walls in hotels are normally fire-resisting, so new cabling or pipework through them has to be sealed to the tested detail.
Large healthcare estates like Arundel and District Hospital (to the north of Horsemere Green) change their services often, so penetration seals are worth checking after M&E work. Campus buildings at universities such as University of Chichester (Bognor Campus), 3.8 miles south-west of Horsemere Green, see constant changes to data and services, and fire-rated sealant goes in around new penetrations where it is specified.
Horsemere Green is about 2 miles west of Littlehampton, in West Sussex. Horsemere Green sits inside our coverage and the rest of West Sussex, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. 373 places across West Sussex fall within our area, Horsemere Green among them. For work in that direction, see our Brighton page (20 miles or so).
If you need fire stopping in BN17, the process matches everywhere else we work: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Langford Close, Horsemere Green Lane and Apple Tree Walk and the roads nearby. If your building is just outside Horsemere Green, we cover Climping (1 mile east), Atherington (1 mile south-east), Ford (1 mile north), Tortington (2 miles north) and Wick (2 miles north-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Worthing (8 miles east), Bognor Regis (5 miles west), Chichester (9 miles west), Selsey (10 miles south-west), Shoreham-by-Sea (14 miles east) and Lancing (12 miles east).
Near you in Horsemere Green
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Black Horse Public House and The Littlehampton Academy, among other places. The closest station to Horsemere Green is Ford station, about 1.3 miles north. Well-known places in the area include Arundel Castle (3.4 miles north-east) and Arundel and District Hospital (3.1 miles north). Open spaces near Horsemere Green include WWT Arundel.