Fire stopping in Nursling
We carry out fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Nursling and the surrounding area. Send photographs or drawings for a fixed quote.
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
Fire stopping for businesses in Nursling
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Nursling
Every service that crosses a compartment wall or floor leaves an opening, and that opening needs sealing to hold back fire and smoke. Our job is fitting fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those service penetrations, and along linear gaps, where it is the specified product. We work to the product’s tested detail for every seal, not a rule of thumb. Site teams most often ask us about penetration schedules that need working through and seals disturbed by maintenance and left open, across joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, pipe penetrations and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows. Most enquiries from Nursling start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
In places the size of Nursling, fire-resisting walls and floors are found in schools, care homes, health centres and mixed-use buildings. Specified fire-rated sealant goes around new services there, built to match the manufacturer’s detail.
Whoever the client is, the cover is the same: twelve months on the work we carried out. Faults in the structure, damage and other trades’ work fall outside it, and we say so plainly.
- Where
- Nursling (SO16)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Surface by surface
Small ducts
We seal around ducts only within what the tested detail covers. The ductwork, its supports and any dampers are for the ductwork contractor.
Linear joints
Linear joints run along the head of a wall, at a slab edge or between two fire-resisting elements. BS EN 1366-4 testing sets the joint widths, depths, backing and movement a seal covers, and we work within it.
How a job runs
At the end of each section, we remove the tape, clean down and inspect every joint, ready for your sign-off. Where the sealant needs time to cure before use, we tell you and sign the area. For a site in Nursling, we plan so the whole job is done in one go where possible. Photos with rough sizes let us arrive with everything needed.
- 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.
Preparing the site
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Move anything stored against the joints
Request a quote
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings that you can work with. For a chat about it beforehand, phone 01277 525 020 or email us.
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Commercial clients in Nursling
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. We plan around the way the building is used, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. We’re fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
What we can’t put right
Before quoting, we check that sealant is the right answer. It isn’t the answer for:
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
If you’re not sure, just ring 01277 525 020 or email us and we will give you a straight answer.
Where we work in Nursling
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
What sets the cost
Quotes vary with the job. It mainly depends on:
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- The site’s rules and procedures
- The product specified
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
Larger quantities, tricky access or phasing all shape the price. Site requirements like inductions and permits play a part as well, along with the time of year for external work.
What to include in your enquiry
For an accurate fixed quote, we need a clear picture of the site. Useful things to include:
- When you need the work done
- The postcode of the building
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- The type of building and who uses it
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.
When to call us in Nursling
A common fault is a product that was never fire-rated in the first place: builders’ foam or ordinary silicone used to fill a hole. The opening looks sealed but has no fire test evidence behind it.
Look out for the following:
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Openings left by services added after handover
For a site team at a college like Totton College (2.3 miles south-west of Nursling), fire-rated sealing is best scheduled after the summer works.
What your quote should include
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
Service penetrations in Nursling buildings
Approved Document B is the English guidance that covers fire stopping around openings and penetrations. 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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail. The 2 miles around Nursling include three care or nursing homes. Care settings depend on compartmentation, so service penetrations made during maintenance or refurbishment need sealing with the specified product.
In a hotel such as Anchor Hotel, which lies south of Nursling, new pipework or cabling through bedroom and corridor walls needs sealing with the specified product. Large healthcare estates like Princess Anne Hospital (to the east of Nursling) change their services often, so penetration seals are worth checking after M&E work.
Nursling is about 2 miles north-east of Totton, in Hampshire. If you are looking for fire stopping in Nursling, we can help. Nursling is one of 723 places in Hampshire on our list for service penetrations.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout SO16, whatever the building. Among the streets we cover are Station Road, Chambers Close and Cranmer Drive, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. We also cover Hillyfields (1 mile south), Upton (1 mile north), Rownhams (1 mile north-east), Maybush (1 mile south-east) and Coxford (1 mile south-east). Bigger towns within reach include Winchester (10 miles north-east), Eastleigh (6 miles east), Fareham (13 miles south-east), Chandler's Ford (5 miles north-east), Hedge End (7 miles east) and Lymington (13 miles south).
What’s near Nursling
In Nursling, that means premises near Oaklands Community School, Oasis Academy Lord's Hill and St James' Park. The nearest railway station is Redbridge station, about 1.6 miles south. A little further out are Eling Experience (1.8 miles south-west) and Princess Anne Hospital (1.5 miles east). Not far away are Testwood Lakes.
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Nursling: questions and answers
Can you work in a care home near Nursling with residents in?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Tell us about any infection-control or safeguarding requirements and we’ll work to them.
Is a smaller place like Nursling outside your area?
Not at all. Nursling is within our area. We work across Greater London and the South East. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
In many cases, yes. Many products come in a range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or surrounding finishes is often possible. We’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product.
What do you charge?
It depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a fixed quote.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. Multi-site work and planned programmes are a core part of the service, planned site by site to suit how each building is used.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No. Failed sealant is removed and the faces cleaned back to sound, dry material first, since fresh sealant will not bond reliably to aged material.
Do you need to see the site first?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a visit.