Hunny Hill fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps across Hunny Hill, carried out by CSCS-carded applicators. CHAS accredited and fully insured.
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
Fire stopping near Hunny Hill
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
What sets the cost
Before we quote, we look at:
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- Distance, for remote addresses
- How much there is to seal
- The site’s rules and procedures
The work involved drives the cost: removing old material, preparing the joints, the product, the access and how the work is phased. Call for a quote and we’ll explain how it’s made up.
What to include in your enquiry
To price the job accurately, we need to understand the site. Useful things to include:
- Any dates the work must fit around
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
Fire stopping in Hunny Hill
It helps to set out our role at the start. Deciding the specification sits with the designer, the fire engineer and building control. We fit the specified fire-rated sealant following that specification and the maker’s installation guidance on sites in Hunny Hill. If you have seals that don’t match their tested detail and old intumescent sealant that has split away, we can put it right, on pipe penetrations, cable penetrations and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows alike. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: on jobs in Hunny Hill, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
Around smaller places like Hunny Hill, many commercial buildings are conversions or extensions of older ones, so it’s worth confirming the wall or floor type before choosing the seal. The right product depends on the wall or floor and the services passing through, and we will tell you if the detail calls for something other than sealant.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: the preparation, the sealing and the tooling. Damage, later alterations by others and movement beyond what the joint was designed for sit outside it.
- Location
- Hunny Hill (PO30, PO31, PO41)
- Region
- Isle of Wight
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Questions we’re asked in Hunny Hill
Can work in a care setting near Hunny Hill go ahead while residents are there?
Yes. We work around residents’ routines, a room or two at a time. Any site rules, from signing in to infection control, are agreed before we start.
Do you work on fire-rated sealing in hotels in Hunny Hill?
Yes, where the specification calls for fire-rated sealant. We match the product to the wall or floor and the services, and say if something other than sealant is needed.
How do you choose the sealant?
If the job is specified, we follow the specification. If not, we choose for the movement, the surfaces and the conditions, in line with the manufacturer’s guidance.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, when the joints are outside. Sealant won’t bond properly to a wet or frosty joint, so external work may be moved if conditions aren’t right. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. Should the site need card details in advance, tell us and we will confirm them with the quote.
How do we ask for a quote?
You can use the quote form on this site; alternatively, ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings. Include photographs or drawings if you have them.
What happens if old sealant might contain asbestos?
Asbestos is possible in some older mastics, particularly in buildings from before 2000. Before we disturb old sealant in an older building, we ask to see the asbestos register or survey, and work stops until any suspect material has been tested. Removing asbestos is a job for asbestos specialists, not us.
How the job changes by surface
Drylining partitions
Service holes through plasterboard are frequently oversized or ragged. An oversized hole may be outside the sealant’s range and we will tell you what the detail says instead.
Plastic pipes
Plastic waste pipes through slabs come up often. The detail decides whether sealant alone is enough, and we won’t substitute it for a specified collar.
Honest limits
Being straight saves everyone time. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
Not sure which it is? You can call 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we’ll tell you honestly.
What we seal
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
Signs you need fire stopping in Hunny Hill
A common fault is a product that was never fire-rated in the first place: builders’ foam or ordinary silicone used to fill a hole. It may look closed, but it has no tested fire performance in that position, so it has to come out.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
For a hospital such as Laidlaw Day Hospital (less than half a mile north of Hunny Hill), penetration sealing is typically phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first.
Questions to ask before you book
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- What site paperwork they can supply
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How a job runs
Before we leave any area, the masking comes off, the area is cleaned and every joint is checked, ready for your sign-off. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out. For a job in Hunny Hill, the main thing is a clear picture of the work, so send photographs of each area. You will then get a fixed price for the work.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Unsuitable material is removed and the opening cleaned first.
- The specified backing and sealant go in to depth and are finished neatly.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
What we need from you
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Ask for a quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Related advice
For managing agents and facilities managers
Facilities managers want contractors who arrive with the paperwork sorted. Let us know the documents you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm them with the quote.
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed. We can agree access arrangements and keyholder contacts beforehand.
Compartment walls and floors in Hunny Hill
There are four care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Hunny Hill. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal. A number of hotels sit less than 2 miles from Hunny Hill. A hotel refit often runs new services through compartment walls between bedrooms and corridors, and each opening needs the specified seal.
Workshops and IT rooms at colleges like The Isle of Wight College (to the north-east of Hunny Hill) are re-serviced often, leaving penetrations to seal. Hotels such as The Bugle Hotel Tap (under half a mile south-east of Hunny Hill) rely on fire-resisting walls between bedrooms and corridors, and refits that add services leave penetrations to seal where fire-rated sealant is specified.
Hunny Hill is about 1 mile north of Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Hunny Hill sits inside our coverage, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Hunny Hill is one of 125 places we cover in the Isle of Wight. Portsmouth is covered too, some 12 miles away.
Business premises anywhere in PO30, PO31 and PO41 are within our area. Buildings on Foxes Road, Chain Lane and Wilver Road are within our area for service penetrations. Being close to the A3020 and A3054, Hunny Hill is straightforward for us to reach. Close to Hunny Hill, our area also takes in Parkhurst (1 mile north), Forest Side (1 mile west), Noke Common (1 mile north), Northwood (3 miles north) and Porchfield (3 miles west). Further afield, our area takes in Ryde (6 miles east), Cowes (4 miles north), Sandown (7 miles south-east), Shanklin (7 miles south-east), Ventnor (9 miles south-east) and East Cowes (3 miles north). Among the larger centres in the Isle of Wight is Hunny Hill, and we take on service penetrations for its commercial and public buildings. Island and remote sites need extra planning, with travel, ferry crossings where needed and weather to allow for, so give the site location in your enquiry.
What’s near Hunny Hill
In Hunny Hill, that means premises near Seaclose Park, Carisbrooke College and The Man in the Moon pub. Other landmarks nearby include Carisbrooke Castle (1.3 miles south-west) and Isle of Wight Music Museum (under half a mile south-east). For a walk, there’s Mill Hill and Briddlesford Nature Reserve.