Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Northwood, Kent
Fire stopping for Northwood, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
Fire stopping for businesses in Northwood
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
About our fire stopping in Northwood
Most of our fire stopping work happens after the building is up. Each new cable, pipe or data route cut through a fire-resisting wall leaves an opening behind. We close the openings listed on your schedule, using the specified sealant and detail. The enquiries we see most involve unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab and damaged fire seals in risers and voids, on cable penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and service gaps in risers. Whoever orders the work in Northwood, the brief is usually the same: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
Fire-rated sealing in a place like Northwood is typically a single building at a time. With the specification and photographs of the gaps, we can give a fixed quote and bring the right products.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Place
- Northwood (CT12, CT10, CT11)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Fire stopping in Northwood: the local picture
A good number of hotels sit less than 2 miles from Northwood. Bedroom-to-corridor walls in hotels are normally fire-resisting, so new cabling or pipework through them has to be sealed to the tested detail. There are six care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Northwood. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal.
Hotels like The Sylvan Hotel, 1.2 miles to the south-east of Northwood, are refurbished in phases, and each phase can open up compartment walls. Refits at places like Broadstairs Retail Park (to the north of Northwood) often reroute services through walls between units.
Northwood is about 1 mile north-west of Ramsgate, in Kent. We cover commercial sites throughout Northwood. 931 places across Kent fall within our area, Northwood among them. For work in that direction, see our London page.
Postcode districts covered here: CT12, CT10 and CT11. Streets here include Gwyn Road, Coxes Lane and Roman Road. Being close to the A254 and A256, Northwood is easy to get to with materials and equipment. Just outside Northwood, we also work in Ramsgate (1 mile south-east), Upton (1 mile east), St Lawrence (1 mile south), St Peter's (1 mile north-east) and Broadstairs (1 mile north-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Canterbury (15 miles west), Dover (15 miles south), Deal (9 miles south), Herne Bay (12 miles west), Walmer (10 miles south) and Wincheap (15 miles west).
Near you in Northwood
In Northwood, that means premises near The Derby Arms, The Charles Dickens School and The Royal Harbour Academy. The nearest railway station is Ramsgate station, about 0.8 miles south of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Westwood Cross (0.5 miles north-west) and Ramsgate Museum (1.4 miles south-east). Open spaces near Northwood include Sandwich and Pegwell Bay.
Your questions answered
Can you work around term dates at a campus such as Nelson College London?
Yes. Education sites normally want the work in vacations or in phases during term, and we plan to suit. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and paperwork such as RAMS is confirmed with the quote.
Can you work on a hospital site such as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital?
Yes, healthcare and care buildings are part of our work. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Do you work in Scotland as well as England?
Scotland sets its own building regulations, with Technical Handbooks, while England relies on Approved Document B. Either way, we install the specified sealant to its tested detail.
Do you guarantee your work?
Yes, for 12 months. If our installation fails in that time, we return and fix it.
How do we ask for a quote?
There are four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Step one needs little more than photographs and a postcode.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, when the joints are outside. Sealant won’t bond properly to a wet or frosty joint, so external work may be moved if conditions aren’t right. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
How long does a typical visit take?
The duration is planned around your programme and the access we’re given. You’ll have an expected duration with the quote.
What the job involves on each surface
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. The specified product and backing for that movement are what goes in, along the full length of the run.
Risers and ceiling voids
Openings above suspended ceilings are easy to miss. We work through the areas on your schedule methodically, and note anything we find that isn’t on it.
Doing it in-house
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are where general trades tend to cut corners.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
Work for main contractors and building owners
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end.
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Northwood can sit alongside others in a wider programme across Kent.
Nearby places to Northwood
What else we do in Northwood
What affects the price in Northwood
There’s no standard rate for sealant work, since sites vary so much. What we take into account:
- How much there is to seal
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- The product specified
- Access and working height
Larger quantities, tricky access or phasing all shape the price. So do site requirements such as inductions and permits.
What we need to price the job
Diagnosis starts before we arrive. Let us know:
- Clear photos of the problem areas
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- When you need the work done
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. To take the first step, ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
When to call us in Northwood
Fire stopping can get squeezed at the end of a programme, or done by whoever is on site. That is when untested combinations creep in, which then have to be put right.
Things that normally lead to an enquiry:
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
On a hospital site such as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, which lies north of Northwood, fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it, with the work planned around the estates team’s permits.
What to look for in a quote
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- Is the sealant right for the movement and the substrate?
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We begin with a short walk round with whoever looks after the building, agreeing which joints are in scope, where to start and what must stay open. Then we strip out anything that has failed, prepare every joint and seal it. Several jobs near Northwood can be grouped on one trip. Mention the building’s opening times and we will work within them.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Tell staff and tenants when we will be in
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Ask for a 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 will arrange one.