Fire Stopping in Landport
Need fire stopping in Landport? Send us the details for a fixed quote, backed by a 12-month guarantee on the work.
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
Fire stopping near Landport
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
Cost factors for service penetrations
Sealant work doesn’t have a standard rate, since sites vary so much. What we look at:
- Access and working height
- The total length or number of joints
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- Joint width, depth and condition
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.
What we need to price the job
For an accurate fixed quote, we need a clear picture of the site. Send us:
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- Access details, including height
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We’ll quote against your scope and drawings that you can work with. If you have questions first, ring 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
Fire stopping in Landport, done properly
We are commercial sealant applicators, CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, with CSCS-carded applicators on site. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate and we’d rather say that up front. We install the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail, and our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee. We work on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and pipe penetrations, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are openings left by services added after handover and fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Landport from the first photos to the final walk-round, whether it’s one building or several.
Fire-rated sealing in a place like Landport is usually a single building at a time. With the specification and photographs of the gaps, we can give a fixed quote and bring the right products.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. That covers our preparation and application, and if something we did falls short, we return to it.
- Where
- Landport (PO1, PO2, PO5)
- Wider area
- Portsmouth
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
How a job runs
At the end of each section, 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. Several jobs near Landport can be grouped on one trip. Tell us your site hours and we will plan around them.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
Getting a fixed quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.
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Common questions from Landport clients
Do you work in occupied care homes around Landport?
Yes. We agree rooms and times with the manager and work a few areas at a time. We follow the home’s own procedures throughout.
Can you work at a site such as Victory Retail Park, by Landport?
Yes, sites like Victory Retail Park are within our area, along with the rest of Landport. A few photographs and the unit address let us price the work.
Is colour matching possible?
Often, yes. Sealants are made in a wide range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or nearby finishes is commonly requested. We confirm what’s available for the specified product when we quote.
How do you choose the sealant?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
Can you send site paperwork?
Tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm with the quote.
Do you hold third-party fire-stopping installer certification?
No. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and our applicators are CSCS-carded. If your contract requires third-party installer certification, we’re not the right fit for that package.
Will you write the fire-stopping specification?
No. The specification comes from your designer, fire engineer or building control. Our role is fitting the specified fire-rated sealant, following the maker’s tested details.
What else we do in Landport
Site staff or a sealant 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. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. Where it goes wrong is preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Compartment walls and floors in Landport
Fire stopping of openings and penetrations in England falls under Approved Document B. The national BS 476 classes are due to drop out of it from 2 September 2029, leaving the European BS EN 13501-2 route, subject to transitional arrangements. What we install is set by the specification, and it goes in to the tested detail. A good number of hotels sit less than 2 miles from Landport. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
Campus buildings at universities such as University of Portsmouth - North Zone, 0.6 miles to the south-west of Landport, see constant changes to data and services, and fire-rated sealant goes in around new penetrations where it is specified. Tenant changes at centres like Tricorn Centre (less than half a mile west of Landport) often mean new services through walls between units.
Landport is about 1 mile south-west of Portsmouth, in Portsmouth. We cover commercial sites throughout Landport. Landport is one of 19 places we cover in Portsmouth.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in PO1, PO2 and PO5 gets the same process as the rest of our area: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Lake Road, Watts Road and Alfred Road. Nearby places we also cover include Portsmouth (1 mile north-east), Fratton (1 mile east), Rudmore (1 mile north), Kingston (1 mile east) and North End (1 mile north) for service penetrations. Nearby towns on our patch include Wymering (3 miles north), Paulsgrove (3 miles north), Cosham (3 miles north), Drayton (3 miles north-east) and Farlington (4 miles north-east).
What’s near Landport
We work on buildings around The Painters Arms, St Edmund's Catholic School and Alexandra Park and the streets around them. Landport has its own railway station: Portsmouth & Southsea station. Nearby you’ll also find Royal Portsmouth Hospital (less than half a mile south-west) and Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum (under half a mile north). Open spaces near Landport include Milton Locks and Portsdown Hill.
Honest limits
A proper diagnosis includes knowing what sealant can’t do. We will tell you if the real problem is one of these:
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
If in doubt, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we will say what we think before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Signs you need fire stopping in Landport
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.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
Shop fits on retail sites such as Victory Retail Park (to the north of Landport) can bring new services through fire-resisting walls between units, to be sealed with the specified product.
What to look for in a quote
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- How joint depth will be controlled
- How the existing material will be dealt with
Keeping the joints sound
Cleaning and maintenance staff play a part too. Pass these on to them:
- Record which product was used where
- Look above ceilings when tiles are lifted for other jobs
- Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged.
On fit-outs, get the fire-stopping specification agreed before the services go in. The designer can then choose details that suit the services planned, and installation follows the programme.