Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Lordswood, Southampton
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Lordswood. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
Fire stopping across Lordswood
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Fire stopping in Lordswood
Sealant is the specified answer for plenty of openings, such as metal pipes, cables and some small ducts where the detail covers them. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. If you are dealing with fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated and snag lists that include open service penetrations, we can help. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Lordswood from the first photos to the final walk-round, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
Buildings in a smaller place such as Lordswood that need fire-rated sealing are typically schools, care homes, surgeries, small offices and flats over shops. Specified fire-rated sealant goes around new services there, built to match the manufacturer’s detail.
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.
- Place
- Lordswood (SO16, SO15)
- Wider area
- Southampton
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Quoting for work in Lordswood
Your fixed quote is built from the real scope. It allows for:
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Access and working height
- The site’s rules and procedures
The price depends on the quantity of joints, what has to come out first and how the joints are reached. Call for a fixed quote when you are ready.
What to include in your enquiry
We can often quote from photographs and a few details. It helps to include:
- Any specification or named product
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Any dates the work must fit around
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and a fixed quote will follow. To get it moving, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
How the job changes by surface
Metal pipes
Sealant details often cover copper and steel pipework. Pipe diameter, annular gap, sealant depth and any pipe insulation all have to match the detail.
Linear joints
Linear joints run along the head of a wall, at a slab edge or between two fire-resisting elements. BS EN 1366-4 testing sets the joint widths, depths, backing and movement a seal covers and the installation has to fit inside those limits.
Lordswood: questions and answers
Can you work on a hospital site such as Princess Anne Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. The estates team’s permit system and infection-control rules come first, and the work is planned around them.
Will you work in a care home in Lordswood without moving residents out?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Any site rules, from signing in to infection control, are agreed before we start.
Which sealant will you use?
Where there’s a specification, we use the product it names. If not, we choose for the movement, the surfaces and the conditions, in line with the manufacturer’s guidance.
Do you certify or sign off fire stopping?
No. Sign-off belongs to the designer or building control, not the installer. We will confirm the products and details used and agree any further records when we quote.
Do you guarantee your work?
Yes. The 12-month guarantee covers our preparation and application, but not damage, misuse or other trades’ work.
Is colour matching possible?
In many cases, yes. Sealants are made in a wide range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or nearby finishes is commonly requested. We’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product.
Do you cover Lordswood?
Yes. We take on work across Lordswood.
Why it’s worth doing now in Lordswood
Open service penetrations matter on ordinary days, not just in a fire: they also carry noise, draughts and smells between rooms. The specified fire seal closes the gap for all of these, and the other benefits follow. For buildings in places like Lordswood, one well-planned visit beats several small ones, so we’d suggest renewing all the joints that are going, not just the worst.
The specified product makes a difference, and so does the preparation, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
Why clients in Lordswood choose us
- Old sealant cut out, never sealed over
- Fixed quotes based on photos, drawings or a visit
- Health and safety: CHAS accredited
- One contact handling all your sites
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations and insurance.
Where services cross fire walls in Lordswood
A number of hotels sit less than 2 miles from Lordswood. In hotels, bedroom and corridor walls are usually fire-resisting, so services added in a refit need sealing with the specified product. Fire stopping of openings and penetrations in England falls under Approved Document B. References to the older BS 476 classes are being removed from it from 2 September 2029, after which the European classification, BS EN 13501-2, is the route, subject to transitional arrangements. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail.
For a unit at a site such as Northbrook Industrial Estate, 0.8 miles to the south of Lordswood, new power or data runs between office and warehouse can breach a compartment wall. Campus buildings at universities such as University of Southampton, 1.8 miles south-east of Lordswood, see constant changes to data and services, and fire-rated sealant goes in around new penetrations where it is specified.
Lordswood is about 2 miles north-west of Southampton, in Southampton. Any commercial site in Lordswood is covered. Lordswood is one of 30 places in Southampton on our list for service penetrations.
If you need fire stopping in SO16 and SO15, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. If your site is on Peach Road, Linden Road and Woburn Road or close by, send details and we’ll quote for service penetrations. Sites close to Lordswood are covered too, including Coxford (1 mile south-west), Bassett (1 mile east), Rownhams (1 mile north-west), Maybush (1 mile south-west) and Chilworth (1 mile north-east). A short drive away, we cover Midanbury (3 miles east), Thornhill (5 miles south-east), Harefield (4 miles south-east), Itchen (4 miles south-east), Sholing (4 miles south-east) and Woolston (4 miles south-east).
Around Lordswood
We work on buildings around St James' Park, Upper Shirley High School and Oaklands Community School, among other places. The closest station to Lordswood is Millbrook (Hants) station, about 2.2 miles south of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Marlands Shopping Centre (2.8 miles south-east) and Princess Anne Hospital (0.5 miles south). Open spaces near Lordswood include Testwood Lakes.
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After the work
To get the most from the new sealant:
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
- Settle who seals which penetrations at the start of a project
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Look above ceilings when tiles are lifted for other jobs
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.
The simplest way to keep compartment walls intact is to plan fire stopping into every job that crosses them. Then the seal goes in while the area is open instead of being left for someone else.
What we are called out for in Lordswood
Plenty of openings were simply never closed, often hidden above suspended ceilings or behind boxing. They come to light during inspections, refits or when another trade lifts a tile.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
Colleges such as Richard Taunton Sixth Form College (to the south-east of Lordswood) add IT and services as courses change, and each new penetration through a fire-resisting wall needs sealing with the specified product.
What to look for in a quote
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
On site: what to expect
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we’ll plan around them. While we’re working, the area stays contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. What matters most for a job in Lordswood is a clear list of what needs doing, so send photographs of each area. You’ll then get a fixed price for the work.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send and raise any questions before we price.
- On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
- 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.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
What we need from you
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Tell staff and tenants when we will be in
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
Request a quote
To get a fixed quote, phone 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. You can also send details through our quote form.