Fire stopping in Orlestone
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps across Orlestone, carried out by CSCS-carded applicators. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
Fire stopping in Orlestone
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Orlestone
No fire sealant works on its own: its test evidence covers one product in one kind of wall or floor, with set services, gaps, depths and backing. We match each opening to that detail before any sealant goes in, and we say so if it doesn’t fit. If you are dealing with service penetrations left open after M&E works and unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab, we can put it right. Most enquiries from Orlestone start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we look at the rest while we’re there and tell you what we find.
Around smaller places like Orlestone, penetration seals come up in schools, halls, pubs with rooms, care homes and farm buildings used as offices. Any service penetration through those walls should be closed with the specified product, set out as its test evidence shows.
Building owners and contractors get the same cover: a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. Faults in the structure, damage and other trades’ work fall outside it, and we say so plainly.
- Where
- Orlestone (TN26)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Common questions from Orlestone clients
Is Orlestone off your patch?
Not at all. Orlestone is within our area. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Where we can, we group nearby jobs to make the most of each trip.
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like William Harvey Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Can weather delay the job?
Outside, yes. The joint has to be dry and within the product’s temperature range, so damp, frosty or very cold days can stop external work. Internal work is rarely affected.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, and you deal with one contact throughout.
Do you hold third-party fire-stopping installer certification?
No, and we’d rather be clear about that. Third-party schemes aren’t a legal requirement, but many clients and main contractors ask for them. Where it isn’t required, we install the specified sealant to the maker’s details.
How do we ask for a quote?
The quote form is the simplest route, though you can also give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form. Photos, drawings or a joint schedule help us quote quickly.
Can the sealant be colour-matched?
Often, yes. Many products come in a range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or surrounding finishes is often possible. We will confirm the colours available for the specified product.
Maintenance after handover
For the best life from the joints:
- Look above ceilings when tiles are lifted for other jobs
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
- Ask the designer to confirm details early on refits
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
After the work, brief anyone else working in the area that the openings are now sealed. Any seal cut back for a new service needs reinstating to its tested detail.
Make reporting new openings part of every permit to work in service areas. Small habits like this stop openings building up.
Also near Orlestone
Other services in Orlestone
Doing it in-house
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
The visible bead is only part of the job. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
From enquiry to sign-off
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we’ll plan around them. On the day, the work area is kept contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. If others near Orlestone need work, visits can be combined. You will have a fixed quote before work starts.
- 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
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Let us know about inductions and permits
Getting a fixed quote
The quickest route to a quote is a few photographs and the site postcode. Send them through the quote form, or give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos to discuss it first.
Related advice
What happens if it’s left?
An open or wrongly sealed service penetration lets fire and smoke reach the next compartment much sooner than the building was designed for. Putting it right is normally a modest job when the openings are accessible. Left until ceilings are closed or a tenant moves in, the same work costs more access and more disruption. Around Orlestone, it’s better to renew all the failing joints at once. Send photos of each area and we’ll quote for the lot.
What a job costs comes down to how many linear metres there are, what has to come out first and how the joints are reached. Call for a fixed quote when you’re ready.
Why appoint us
- One number for every site we cover
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
- CSCS-carded applicators
- Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
When something else is needed
Part of a good diagnosis is knowing where sealant stops. You’ll hear from us if the cause turns out to be any of the following:
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
Not sure which it is? You can call 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we’ll tell you honestly.
Where we work in Orlestone
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Do you need fire stopping in Orlestone?
Linear gaps fail where a fire-resisting wall meets a slab, soffit or another wall. Movement in the frame or slab can open the joint. The tested detail for a linear joint states the width and movement it covers.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Schools such as Hamstreet Primary Academy often have new data and services installed during holidays, and penetrations through fire-resisting walls should be checked afterwards.
What to look for in a quote
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
- Who will actually carry out the work
Fire stopping in Orlestone: the local picture
Orlestone is about 50 miles from central London. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls, and the gaps need sealing with the specified product. In England, Approved Document B covers fire stopping of openings and penetrations. Its BS 476 references are being withdrawn from 2 September 2029, with BS EN 13501-2 classification taking over, subject to transitional arrangements. What we install is set by the specification, and it goes in to the tested detail.
Older community buildings such as Church of St Mary the Virgin that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification. Offices at parks like Meadow View Business Park, 1.5 miles south-east of Orlestone, are re-cabled with each new tenant, and compartment walls need sealing afterwards to the tested detail.
Orlestone is about 4 miles south of Ashford, in Kent. We cover Orlestone, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. Orlestone is one of 931 places in Kent on our list for service penetrations. There’s a separate page for Brighton, roughly 46 miles from Orlestone.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout TN26. Sites close to Orlestone are covered too, including Hamstreet (1 mile south-east), Bromley Green (1 mile north), Kenardington (2 miles south-west), Ruckinge (2 miles south-east) and Stone Cross (2 miles north-east). Further afield, our area takes in Ashford (4 miles north), Folkestone (14 miles east), Hythe (10 miles east), Hawkinge (14 miles east), Tenterden (7 miles west) and Cheriton (13 miles east).
Around Orlestone
We work on buildings around The Dukes Head pub. For rail, the closest station is Ham Street station, roughly 0.7 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Woodchurch Village Life Museum (3.6 miles west) and William Harvey Hospital (5.3 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Orlestone Forest.