New Charlton fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in New Charlton. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
Fire stopping for New Charlton sites
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
How the quote is worked out
There’s no standard rate for sealant work, since sites vary so much. What we look at:
- Working within restricted access windows
- The size and state of each joint
- Any access equipment needed
- Travel to remote or island sites
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: scope, access, product and programme. Call for a quote and we will put a fixed figure on it.
Sending details for a quote
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, these details speed things up:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- A wide shot and a close-up of the area
To get a fixed quote, ring 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.
About our fire stopping in New Charlton
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, call 01277 525 020 or send photos by email with the schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we will confirm with the quote. If you have penetration schedules that need working through and builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls, we can put it right, on service gaps in risers, linear gaps at wall heads and cable penetrations alike. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: in New Charlton, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
In a London area such as New Charlton, buildings are refitted often, and every new cable, pipe or duct through a fire-resisting wall or floor leaves a gap. Where the specification names fire-rated sealant, it goes in exactly as the manufacturer’s test evidence shows for that wall or floor.
We stand by our work with a 12-month guarantee. That covers our preparation and application, and if something we did falls short, we return to it.
- Location
- New Charlton (SE7, SE18, E16)
- Wider area
- Greater London
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Towns and villages near New Charlton
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Your questions answered
Will you take on work at estates like Stone Lake Retail Park, close to New Charlton?
Yes. We cover New Charlton and the area around it, including industrial estates, business parks and retail parks such as Stone Lake Retail Park. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Can work in a care setting near New Charlton go ahead while residents are there?
Yes. Care settings are planned area by area, at times agreed with the home. Tell us about any infection-control or safeguarding requirements and we’ll work to them.
What’s the quickest route to a quote?
The quote form is the simplest route, though you can also ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings. Include photos or drawings if you have them.
How much does the work cost?
We don’t publish prices, as every site differs. Send photos or drawings and we will price it at a fixed figure.
Do you take on small jobs?
Small jobs are welcome alongside larger packages. Photos and a description are enough to start.
Do you work in New Charlton?
Yes. We cover New Charlton, and the simplest way to start is to ring 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Who decides which product is used?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. Without one, the joint decides: how much it moves, what it bonds to and whether it’s wet, trafficked or fire-rated.
Different surfaces, different methods
Metal pipes
Heat travels along metal pipework, and the tested detail may ask for insulation beyond the wall. We follow whatever the detail requires and flag anything we can’t match.
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. The specified product and backing for that movement are what goes in.
Fire-rated sealing for New Charlton buildings
Every new tenant in a London building tends to bring new cabling, and with it new holes through compartment walls. We install fire-rated sealant where it is specified and work within the building manager’s permit system. New Charlton has three care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Where new services have gone through compartment walls in a care setting, the gaps need the specified product. Where that’s fire-rated sealant, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
Shop fits on retail sites such as Stone Lake Retail Park, under half a mile south-west of New Charlton, can bring new services through fire-resisting walls between units, to be sealed with the specified product. For a site team at a college like Shooters Hill Sixth Form College, 1.6 miles south-east of New Charlton, fire-rated sealing is best scheduled after the summer works. For an estates team at a campus like Ravensbourne University London, which lies north-west of New Charlton, summer M&E works are normally followed by a round of penetration sealing.
New Charlton is about 2 miles north-east of Greenwich, in Greater London. We cover New Charlton and the rest of Greater London, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. New Charlton is one of 764 places in Greater London on our list. Sites around London have their own page, about 6 miles away.
We cover the SE7, SE18 and E16 postcode districts. For a building on Floyd Road, Priolo Road and Hasted Road or nearby, send details and we will quote for service penetrations. Close to New Charlton, our area also takes in Charlton (1 mile south-east), Westcombe Park (1 mile south-west), Woolwich (1 mile east), Vanbrugh Park Estate (1 mile south-west) and Maze Hill (2 miles south-west). A short drive away, we cover London (6 miles west), City of Westminster (8 miles west), Marylebone (8 miles west), Kensington (10 miles west), St Pancras (7 miles west) and Shoreditch (5 miles north-west).
What’s near New Charlton
Around New Charlton, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Thames Barrier Park, Thorntree Primary School and The Victoria pub, among other places. There’s a railway station in New Charlton itself: Charlton station. Well-known places in the area include Charlton Athletic Museum (under half a mile south) and Greenwich Castle (1.9 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Gilbert's Pit.
Doing it in-house
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but anything bigger is another matter: a specialist works through quantities efficiently, leaves a consistent finish and backs it with a 12-month guarantee.
There’s also the paperwork. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and we will confirm the paperwork you need with the quote.
On site: what to expect
We follow your site rules from the start: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. With the paperwork done, the joints are worked through in the order agreed with your site contact. Most London premises stay occupied while we are on site, so zones and timings are agreed with whoever manages the building. Areas are handed back as each section is finished.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals and raise any questions before we price.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing goes in wherever the detail asks.
- 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
- Let us know about inductions and permits
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
Get a fixed quote
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints and a fixed quote comes back to you. Where a site visit makes more sense, we’ll arrange one.
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After the work
Regular inspection catches problems early. In particular:
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
- Have penetrations checked while they can still be seen
- Treat an open penetration as a priority repair
Allow the manufacturer’s stated cure time before boxing in or decorating. Some fire-rated sealants accept paint and some don’t, so check the product data first.
Keep a register of where seals are and what they are made of. It tells the next contractor exactly what to reinstate, which saves guesswork.
When something else is needed
A few problems need another trade or a different fix, and we say so rather than covering them up:
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
If you’re not sure, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we will give you a straight answer.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations