Locksgreen fire stopping
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Locksgreen. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping in Locksgreen
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Questions we are asked in Locksgreen
Is Porchfield Business Park, near Locksgreen, within your area?
Yes. We cover Locksgreen and the area around it, including industrial estates, business parks and retail parks such as Porchfield Business Park. Send details of the unit and the work through our quote form for a quick quote.
Is Locksgreen off your patch?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. We cover Greater London and the counties of the South East. Send photographs and a list of what needs doing, and we will plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
How long does a typical visit take?
That varies with the scale of the job, though a typical visit usually takes longer where risers, ceiling voids or occupied floors have to be worked through in sequence. Larger or phased jobs take longer, and we will give you a timescale with the quote.
What does an EI 60 rating mean?
BS EN 1366-3 covers penetration seals and BS EN 1366-4 covers linear joints. Results are classified under BS EN 13501-2 as E for integrity and I for insulation, with a time such as EI 60 or EI 120. That rating only holds when the product is installed to its tested detail.
Do you work in Scotland as well as England?
Our work covers Greater London, the South East and every Scottish council area. Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14, expects service penetrations to be fire stopped to at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance.
How do I request a quote?
It works in four steps: send details, receive a fixed quote, we carry out the work, and it’s guaranteed. The first step only needs photos and a postcode.
How soon can the area be used again?
That comes down to the sealant and the temperature. Some take light use quickly, others need longer to cure, and we confirm it before leaving site.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Locksgreen
Where pipes, cables and other services cross a compartment wall or floor, the opening around them has to be closed so fire and smoke can’t move between compartments. Our part is installing fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those openings and along linear gaps, where the specification calls for it. We work to the product’s tested detail for every seal, not a rule of thumb. If you’re dealing with service penetrations left open after M&E works and improvised or mixed-product fire seals, we can put it right. Searching for sealant specialists in Locksgreen? We have been sealing commercial buildings since 2005.
A job near Locksgreen is usually planned around one visit, with the specification and photos sent in advance. Design and sign-off belong to the designer or building control; we install what’s specified.
Building owners and contractors get the same cover: twelve months on the work we carried out. It doesn’t extend to damage, faults in the building or work by others, and we are upfront about that.
- Where
- Locksgreen (PO30)
- Wider area
- Isle of Wight
- Guarantee
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
What we can’t put right
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
If you’re not sure, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we will give you a straight answer.
Surfaces we seal
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
Work for main contractors and building owners
As a CHAS accredited contractor and Constructionline member, we make supplier vetting simple. We’re fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
Facilities managers want contractors who arrive with the paperwork sorted. Tell us what site paperwork you need, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we will confirm with the quote.
Penetration seals near Locksgreen
For England, the fire stopping of penetrations is dealt with in 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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail.
Tenant changes at parks like Porchfield Business Park (0.5 miles west of Locksgreen) bring new data and services, and openings through fire-resisting walls need the specified seal.
Locksgreen is about 3 miles west of Newport, in the Isle of Wight. Any commercial site in Locksgreen is covered, for single jobs and planned programmes alike. 125 places across the Isle of Wight fall within our area, Locksgreen among them. Sites around Southampton have their own page, about 14 miles away.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout PO30, for business premises of every kind. Sites close to Locksgreen are covered too, including Porchfield (1 mile north-east), Newtown (1 mile west), Great Thorness (1 mile north-east), Forest Side (2 miles east) and Noke Common (3 miles east). A short drive away, we cover Newport (3 miles east), Ryde (9 miles east), Cowes (4 miles north-east), Sandown (10 miles south-east), Shanklin (10 miles south-east) and Ventnor (11 miles south-east). Remote and island addresses take more planning, from travel and ferries to the weather, so mention the location when you call the office on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
What’s near Locksgreen
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Sportsman's Rest pub. Nearby you’ll also find Calbourne Water Mill And Rural Museum (3 miles south-west) and Carisbrooke Castle (3.1 miles south-east). For a walk, there’s Brighstone Down.
Towns and villages near Locksgreen
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After the work
For the best life from the joints:
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Ask which product is in place before decorating
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Treat an open penetration as a priority repair
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Watch for cracked sealant, new services with no seal and openings that have grown and get them dealt with.
Keep a register of where seals are and what they are made of. It tells the next contractor exactly what to reinstate.
What sets the cost
To price the job, we consider:
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
- Working within restricted access windows
- Travel to remote or island sites
- How much there is to seal
The product called for affects the cost, as does the preparation each joint needs, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
Before you send an enquiry
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, these details speed things up:
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- The site address and postcode
- When you need the work done
- Any specification or named product
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and we will put a fixed quote together. To get it moving, ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Signs you need fire stopping in Locksgreen
Linear gaps fail where a fire-resisting wall meets a slab, soffit or another wall. Deflection and building movement can open these gaps, and a product not tested for that movement may crack. Linear joint details set a width range and movement capability, and the seal has to sit within them.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
For a hospital such as St Mary's Hospital, 3.1 miles east of Locksgreen, penetration sealing is normally phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first.
Before you book anyone
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. The work area is signed and kept contained, keep walkways clear and work section by section so the rest of the building stays in use. For work around Locksgreen, we aim to finish in one visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out 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.
Preparing the site
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
Getting a fixed quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price the work to it. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photos and a few notes.