Lowford fire stopping
Planning work on a service penetration in Lowford? We assess it, carry out the work and guarantee our workmanship for 12 months.
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Penetration schedules that need working through
Fire stopping across Lowford
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Surface by surface
Plastic pipes
In a fire, plastic pipework melts away and leaves an opening. Some intumescent sealants are tested on smaller plastic pipes. We confirm material and size first and tell you if sealant isn’t the right product.
Small ducts
Some fire-rated sealant details cover small ducts. Bigger ducts and fire-resisting ductwork are normally handled with other products.
Fire stopping in Lowford
Sealant is the specified answer for plenty of openings, such as metal pipes, cables and some small ducts where the detail covers them. Larger openings and some plastic pipes call for collars, wraps, batts or boards instead. If the detail calls for something other than sealant, we say so rather than force sealant into it. Site teams most often ask us about non-fire-rated filler around services and fire sealant pulled out of the opening, on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, cable penetrations and linear gaps at wall heads. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, in Lowford it comes down to the same thing: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
Fire-rated sealing in a place like Lowford is typically a single building at a time. With the specification and photos of the gaps, we can give a fixed quote and bring the right products.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. You get a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, and the quote explains what it covers.
- Place
- Lowford (SO31)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Fire-rated sealing for Lowford buildings
Lowford is about 68 miles from central London. Office refits around the commuter belt bring new cabling through fire-resisting walls, and the gaps need sealing with the specified product. 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. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail.
For a site team at a college like Itchen College, 1.9 miles north-west of Lowford, fire-rated sealing is best scheduled after the summer works. Halls and meeting rooms at places like St Paul’s Church sometimes gain new services, and any compartment wall crossed needs the specified seal. At a university such as Solent University, which lies west of Lowford, labs, lecture blocks and residences are re-serviced often, so penetration seals are best checked after M&E work.
Lowford is about 2 miles south-west of Hedge End, in Hampshire. Commercial clients in Lowford use us for work on service penetrations. Lowford is one of 723 places in Hampshire on our list.
Postcode districts covered here: SO31 for service penetrations. If your site is on Hamble Lane, St George Close and Woolwich Close or close by, send details and we will quote for service penetrations. We also cover Old Netley (1 mile south-west), Bursledon (1 mile south-east), Butlocks Heath (1 mile south-west), Hound (1 mile south-west) and Netley (1 mile south-west) for service penetrations. Bigger towns within reach include Winchester (12 miles north), Gosport (10 miles south-east), Havant (15 miles east), Eastleigh (5 miles north), Fareham (6 miles south-east) and Horndean (14 miles east).
What’s near Lowford
We work on buildings around Oasis Academy Mayfield, Westwood Woodland Park and The Linden Tree pub and the streets around them. The closest station to Lowford is Bursledon station, roughly 0.9 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Coldeast (2.3 miles south-east) and Netley Castle (1.9 miles south-west). The countryside around Lowford includes Netley Common.
FAQs: Lowford
What does the BS 476 change mean for fire-rated sealant in Lowford?
References to BS 476 classes are being removed from Approved Document B from 2 September 2029, after which BS EN 13501-2 classification is the route, subject to transitional arrangements. Whichever applies, we install the specified product to its tested detail; the specification is for the designer to set.
Can you work around term dates at a campus such as Solent University?
Yes. We plan campus work around teaching, exams and residence turnarounds. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and paperwork such as RAMS is confirmed with the quote.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. We follow the specification, along with the manufacturer’s installation guidance, and any queries are raised before we start.
How soon can the area be used again?
That comes down to the sealant and the temperature. Some products skin over quickly but need longer to cure fully, and we confirm it before leaving site.
Can weather delay the job?
For external joints, yes. The joint has to be dry and within the product’s temperature range, so frost, rain or cold mornings can delay outside work. Inside work is seldom held up.
Do you have public liability insurance?
Yes. Our insurance certificate can be sent alongside the quote.
Do you cover Lowford?
Yes. Lowford is in our area and the rest of Hampshire, within our coverage of Greater London, South East England and Scotland. To discuss a job, call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Honest limits
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’d rather tell you before you spend money. It won’t fix:
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
If in doubt, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we’ll say what we think.
What we seal
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
Building owners, agents and FMs in Lowford
As a CHAS accredited contractor and Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. Our insurance certificate can be sent along 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’ll confirm with the quote.
What affects the price in Lowford
What shapes the price:
- Location, for remote and island sites
- Phasing around occupants
- Any access equipment needed
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
The specified product makes a difference, and so does the preparation. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
What we need to price the job
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, the same details help:
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- How the joints are reached, and at what height
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- Clear photos of the problem areas
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price the work to it. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photographs and a few notes.
Keeping the joints sound
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
Don’t patch a fire-rated seal with anything outside its tested detail. A repair should use the original product, installed the same way unless the designer specifies otherwise.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. Small habits like this stop openings building up.
Places near Lowford
What else we do in Lowford
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We schedule the visit to fit the site hours and access windows you give us. While we are working, the area stays contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. Work in places the size of Lowford is planned as a single visit where we can. Clear photographs and measurements help us bring the right products.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- 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.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Getting the site ready
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Move anything stored against the joints
Getting a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, call 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings. Our quote form is another easy route.