Fire Stopping in Norleywood
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Norleywood. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
Fire stopping for businesses in Norleywood
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Commercial clients in Norleywood
Blocks and communal areas make up much of the work for housing associations and agents. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
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.
Fire stopping in Norleywood
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. If the detail calls for something other than sealant, we say so rather than force sealant into it. Most enquiries involve improvised or mixed-product fire seals and hidden openings found during inspections, on cable penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors. Searching for sealant specialists in Norleywood? We have been sealing commercial buildings since 2005, with CSCS-carded applicators.
Around smaller places like Norleywood, penetration seals come up in schools, halls, pubs with rooms, care homes and farm buildings used as offices. If sealant is what the specification names, we install it around the services exactly as the maker’s detail sets out.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Location
- Norleywood (SO41)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
What the job involves on each surface
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. We use the product and backing the detail names for that movement, with no gaps along the run.
Small ducts
Small ductwork can sometimes be sealed with sealant where the tested detail includes it. Bigger ducts and fire-resisting ductwork are normally handled with other products.
From enquiry to sign-off
Working in a building that stays open takes some planning. We sign and contain the area we are in, keep walkways clear and move on in phases so staff and visitors can carry on around us. For work around Norleywood, we aim to finish in one visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. That way the right products come on the day.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Unsuitable material is removed and the opening cleaned.
- Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
What we need from you
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
- Flag any permit to work we will need
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
Get a fixed quote
For a fixed quote, ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings with the site address and an outline of the work. Our quote form is another easy route.
Related advice
Also in Norleywood
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Some joints are best left to specialists: for instance fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are easy to get wrong without experience.
FAQs: Norleywood
Can you work on a hospital site such as Lymington New Forest Hospital?
Yes, healthcare and care buildings are part of our work. We follow the site’s permits, sign-in and infection-control procedures in every area.
How does the move away from BS 476 affect penetration seals in Norleywood?
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.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. We use CSCS-carded applicators.
Is any job too small?
Single areas, one-off repairs and whole buildings are all quoted the same way: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
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 need to see the site first?
It depends on the job. Simple work can often be priced from photos, while larger or less clear jobs get a site visit first.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and the quote will be based on it.
Do you need fire stopping in Norleywood?
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.
Any of the following is a good reason to get the joints checked over:
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
Holiday works at schools like South Baddesley Church of England Primary School often leave service openings to seal before pupils return.
What to look for in a quote
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- What site paperwork they can supply
- How long is the guarantee, and what does it include?
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
Why it’s worth doing now in Norleywood
Inspections and handover checks often pick up fire stopping. Finding unsealed or improvised openings late can hold up a programme, so earlier action pays back. Converted and older buildings near places like Norleywood tend to move, and aged sealant cracks. A sealant with the right movement capability, correctly sized, lasts far better.
What a job costs comes down to the quantity of joints, what has to come out first and the access. Call for a quote once you have the details.
Why clients in Norleywood choose us
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Commercial sealant work since 2005
- Old sealant cut out, never sealed over
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced and our accreditations and insurance.
Service penetrations in Norleywood buildings
In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. 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.
Theatres, wards and plant rooms at sites like Lymington New Forest Hospital, 2.3 miles west of Norleywood, all have compartment walls crossed by services. In a building such as Church of St Mary, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail.
Norleywood is about 3 miles north-east of Lymington, in Hampshire. We send applicators to Norleywood for service penetrations. Norleywood is one of 723 places we cover in Hampshire. For work in that direction, see our Southampton page.
We take on service penetrations across the SO41 postcode area, for business premises of every kind. If your site is on Norleywood Road, Joys Lane and Thatchers Lane or close by, we can quote for service penetrations. If your building is just outside Norleywood, we cover East End (1 mile south-east), Thorns Beach (3 miles east), Hamstead (5 miles south-east), Bouldnor (5 miles south) and Yarmouth (5 miles south). Further afield, our area takes in Gosport (15 miles east), Eastleigh (15 miles north-east), Fareham (14 miles east), Totton (10 miles north), Chandler's Ford (15 miles north) and Hedge End (13 miles north-east).
Near you in Norleywood
Norleywood’s nearest station is Lymington Pier station, about 2 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery (2.4 miles south-west) and Lymington New Forest Hospital (2.3 miles west). Not far away are Boldre Foreshore.