Fire Stopping in Newfound
Planning work on a service penetration in Newfound? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
Fire stopping for Newfound sites
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Our process
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, and each area is checked before we leave it. For work around Newfound, we aim to finish in one visit, so we ask for photographs and rough sizes first. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- We gun the sealant in to the specified depth around each service and tool it.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Getting the site ready
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
Request a quote
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings you can plan around. For a chat about it beforehand, ring 01277 525 020 or send photos by email.
Advice
How we handle fire stopping in Newfound
Every service that crosses a compartment wall or floor leaves an opening, and that opening needs sealing to hold back fire and smoke. Our part is installing fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those openings and along linear gaps, where the specification calls for it. Each seal follows the manufacturer’s tested detail. If you’re dealing with damaged fire seals in risers and voids and head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal, we can put it right, whatever the surface. For commercial sealant work in Newfound, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
For a smaller site near Newfound, we plan to do all the penetrations in one go, with the specification and photographs sent in advance. Design and sign-off belong to the designer or building control; we install what’s specified.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: preparation, application and finish. Damage, later alterations by others and movement beyond what the joint was designed for sit outside it.
- Location
- Newfound (RG23)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Common questions from Newfound clients
Is a smaller place like Newfound outside your area?
Not at all. Newfound is within our area. London and every South East county are within our area. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
How does the move away from BS 476 affect penetration seals in Newfound?
From 2 September 2029, Approved Document B drops its BS 476 references in favour of BS EN 13501-2 classification, with transitional arrangements. The designer or fire engineer sets the specification, and we install the product to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
Will you quote for a small job?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Photos and a description are enough to start.
What’s the quickest route to a quote?
The quote form is the simplest route, though you can also phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form. Photos, drawings or a joint schedule help us quote quickly.
Can you fit around our working hours?
Give us your site hours and any access windows in your enquiry, and we’ll schedule the work to suit. You can reach the office between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
When is resealing likely to be due?
It depends on movement, UV and weather, cleaning, traffic and the product. Sealant joints are maintenance items, so inspect them regularly.
What happens if old sealant might contain asbestos?
Some older mastics, especially in pre-2000 buildings, can contain asbestos. We check the asbestos register before cutting out old sealant in an older building, and if asbestos is suspected, work stops until it’s tested. Removing asbestos is a job for asbestos specialists, not us.
Places near Newfound
Other services in Newfound
Should maintenance staff do it?
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class, which is what makes a joint last.
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.
Different surfaces, different methods
Metal pipes
Copper and steel pipes are a common service penetration for fire-rated sealant. The tested detail sets the pipe size range, gap, depth and whether insulation can stay on.
Risers and ceiling voids
Service risers and the voids above ceilings are where openings collect. Access is often tight, so we agree it with you in advance, including keys, permits and any isolations.
Leave it or put it right?
Leave a penetration open and smoke and fire can cross into the next compartment far earlier than intended. Putting it right is usually a modest job when the openings are accessible. Wait until ceilings close or areas are occupied and the same work becomes harder to reach. Around Newfound, it’s better to renew all the failing joints at once, rather than one at a time. Send photographs of each area and we will quote for the lot.
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Mention the access as part of your enquiry.
Why us?
- Fixed quotes based on photos, drawings or a visit
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
Read how commercial sealant jobs are priced or how we’re accredited.
Signs you need fire stopping in Newfound
On a busy project, programme pressure can mean fire stopping is rushed or left to whichever trade is closest. That is how unsuitable products and improvised details end up in compartment walls, which then have to be put right.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
Older community buildings such as St John's that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification.
Before you book anyone
- Is the sealant right for the movement and the substrate?
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Their public liability cover
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
Fire stopping around Newfound: how the place shapes the job
Fire stopping of openings and penetrations in England falls under Approved Document B. From 2 September 2029, BS 476 references are being taken out of Approved Document B, leaving BS EN 13501-2 classification as the route, subject to the Government’s transitional arrangements. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail. Central London is about 49 miles from Newfound. Office refits around the commuter belt bring new cabling through fire-resisting walls, and the gaps need sealing with the specified product.
For a school such as Oakley Infant School, penetration sealing fits best at the end of the summer works. For a hospital such as Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, which lies north-east of Newfound, penetration sealing is typically phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first.
Newfound is about 3 miles west of Basingstoke, in Hampshire. We cover Newfound, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Across Hampshire, 723 places are covered, Newfound among them. Reading is covered too, around 15 miles from Newfound.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in RG23 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Among the streets we cover are Fox Lane, Dellfield and Foxmoor Close, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. If your building is just outside Newfound, we cover Oakley (1 mile south-west), Worting (1 mile east), Buckskin (1 mile east), Kempshott (2 miles south-east) and Ibworth (2 miles north-west). A short drive away, we cover Basingstoke (3 miles east), Winchester (15 miles south-west), Fleet (14 miles east), Andover (14 miles west), Alton (11 miles south-east) and Yateley (15 miles east).
Around Newfound
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Fox pub and Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School and the streets around them. The closest station to Newfound is Basingstoke station, roughly 3.5 miles east of the centre. A little further out are The Malls (3.5 miles east) and Willis Museum (3.5 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Daneshill Park Woods and Farleigh Hill.
What sealant work can’t fix
Not every problem is a sealant problem, and we’re upfront when that’s the case. These need a different solution:
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
If in doubt, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we will say what we think before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations