Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Old Town, East Sussex
Fire stopping in Old Town, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
Fire stopping for Old Town sites
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
How we handle fire stopping in Old Town
Sealant is the specified answer for plenty of openings, such as metal pipes, cables and some small ducts where the detail covers them. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. The enquiries we see most involve fire sealant pulled out of the opening and openings found when ceilings come down for a refit, on pipe penetrations, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and cable penetrations. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Old Town tend to want the same three things: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
Around Old Town, penetration and linear seals tend to be one-building jobs. With the specification and photographs of the gaps, we can give a fixed quote and bring the right products.
Every job ends the same way: guaranteed. You get a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Place
- Old Town (BN21, BN20, BN22)
- Region
- East Sussex
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
What sealant work can’t fix
Being straight saves everyone time. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
Not sure which it is? You can phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
Fire stopping in Old Town: the local picture
Approved Document B is the English guidance that covers fire stopping around 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. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail. Central London is about 53 miles from Old Town. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls; the gaps need the specified seal.
For a unit at a site such as Courtlands Road Industrial Estate, which lies east of Old Town, new power or data runs between office and warehouse can breach a compartment wall. Colleges such as East Sussex College Eastbourne (1.1 miles north of Old Town) add IT and services as courses change, and each new penetration through a fire-resisting wall needs sealing with the specified product.
Old Town is about 1 mile south-west of Eastbourne, in East Sussex. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Old Town use us for work on service penetrations. Old Town is one of 308 places we cover in East Sussex for service penetrations. For work in that direction, see our Brighton page.
We take on service penetrations across the BN21, BN20 and BN22 postcode area, whatever the building. For a building on Love Lane, Mill Road and Greys Road or nearby, send details and we’ll quote for service penetrations. Close to Old Town, our area also takes in Upperton (1 mile east), Meads (1 mile south), Eastbourne (1 mile north-east), Holywell (1 mile south) and Ratton Village (1 mile north). Nearby towns on our patch include Hastings (15 miles north-east), Bexhill-on-Sea (10 miles north-east), Seaford (7 miles west), Lewes (13 miles north-west), Hailsham (6 miles north) and St Leonards (14 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Old Town
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Motcombe Infants' School, Gildrege Park and WMG Academy for Young Engineers, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Eastbourne station, roughly 0.7 miles east of the centre. A little further out are Eastbourne District General Hospital (1 mile north) and Pevensey Castle (4.4 miles north-east). The countryside around Old Town includes Combe Hill.
FAQs: Old Town
What happens to BS 476 references for fire stopping in Old Town?
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. Our part doesn’t change: the specified product, to its tested detail.
Is a smaller place like Old Town outside your area?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. We work across Greater London and the South East. Send photos and a list of what needs doing, and we will plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
Will you come and look before quoting?
Many jobs can be quoted from photographs, drawings or a joint schedule. Where they aren’t, we arrange a site visit before quoting.
Do you guarantee your work?
Yes. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. Our applicators hold CSCS cards.
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.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, when the joints are outside. Sealant won’t bond properly to a wet or frosty joint, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
Commercial clients in Old Town
Building owners and managing agents use us on everything from one building to a spread of sites. Several sites can go on one quote, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
What sets the cost
What shapes the price:
- How much there is to seal
- Travel to remote or island sites
- The site’s rules and procedures
- Access and working height
No two sites price the same: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Before you send an enquiry
To price the job accurately, we need to understand the site. Useful things to include:
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- Any specification or named product
- Any dates the work must fit around
- Where the site is, with the postcode
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, phone 01277 525 020 or email us.
After the work
Your facilities or cleaning team can help the joints last. Pass these on to them:
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
During planned inspections, look at seals in risers, cupboards and voids. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged and get them dealt with.
Write fire stopping into the scope of any work crossing a compartment wall or floor. Then the seal goes in while the area is open.
Nearby places to Old Town
What else we do in Old Town
Diagnose, treat, sign off
A typical day starts with protection: masking tape along the joint edges and sheeting over anything nearby. On site, the work usually takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building, and we clear our waste as we work. For a site in Old Town, we plan so the whole job is done in one go where possible. Clear photographs and measurements help us bring the right products.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Unsuitable material is removed and the opening cleaned first.
- Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
Getting the site ready
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
Get a fixed quote
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and a fixed quote will follow. The easiest way is to speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Advice
What we are called out for in Old Town
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 and later need putting right.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
Campus buildings at universities such as University of Brighton Eastbourne Campus, 1.2 miles to the south of Old Town, see constant changes to data and services, and fire-rated sealant goes in around new penetrations where it is specified.
Questions to ask before you book
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- How they handle RAMS and site documents