Fire Stopping in Ower
Fire stopping for Ower, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
Fire stopping for businesses in Ower
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
About our fire stopping in Ower
Sealant is the specified answer for plenty of openings, such as metal pipes, cables and some small ducts where the detail covers them. Larger openings and some plastic pipes call for collars, wraps, batts or boards instead. If the detail calls for something other than sealant, we say so rather than force sealant into it. If you’re dealing with fire stopping installed outside its tested range and fire sealant pulled out of the opening, we can put it right. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Ower, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Around smaller places like Ower, 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.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. You get a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Where
- Ower (SO51)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
What sets the cost
What shapes the price:
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- How much existing material needs removing
- Access and working height
A quote for service penetrations depends on how many there are, their condition and the access, plus any specification you’re working to. Call for a quote.
What to include in your enquiry
A few photos plus some basic facts will normally do. It helps to include:
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- The type of building and who uses it
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- When you need the work done
For a fixed quote, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings with the site address and an outline of the work. You can also send details through our quote form.
Owners, agents and contractors
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios. Several sites can go on one quote, which keeps the paperwork simple.
As a CHAS accredited contractor and Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. Our insurance certificate can be sent along with the quote.
Looking after the joints
To get the most from the new sealant:
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
- Include service cupboards in routine inspections
Allow the manufacturer’s stated cure time before boxing in or decorating. Some fire-rated sealants accept paint and some don’t.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. Small habits like this stop openings building up.
Common questions from Ower clients
Will you plan work around the academic year at somewhere like Totton College?
Yes, holiday working periods are the norm on campus jobs. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and paperwork such as RAMS is confirmed with the quote.
Is Ower off your patch?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. We work across Greater London and the South East. Where we can, we group nearby jobs to make the most of each trip.
Are you members of a third-party fire-stopping installer scheme?
No. We are not members of a third-party fire-stopping installer scheme. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and our applicators are CSCS-carded. If your contract requires third-party installer certification, we are not the right fit for that package.
Can you send site paperwork?
Let us know which documents the site needs, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we will confirm them with the quote.
What does an EI 60 rating mean?
In short, BS EN 1366-3 and 1366-4 are the fire tests and BS EN 13501-2 is how results are classified. EI 60 means integrity and insulation for 60 minutes in the tested arrangement.
Are you insured?
Yes. Our insurance certificate can be sent alongside the quote.
Will you come and look before quoting?
It depends on the job. Simple work can often be priced from photographs, and bigger or more complex jobs normally get a visit.
On site: what to expect
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and the sealant is tooled off neatly. Rural sites near Ower may need directions, gate codes or a contact on site. Send that with the details and we will confirm the plan with the quote.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out.
- The specified backing and sealant go in to depth and are finished neatly.
- We tell you about openings that need a different product.
Getting the site ready
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Let us know about inductions and permits
- Confirm the product named in the specification
Getting a fixed quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us.
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Service penetrations in Ower 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. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail. Ower has three care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal.
Industrial units on estates such as Mortimer Trading Estate, less than half a mile west of Ower, often separate offices from warehouse space with fire-resisting walls, and new services through them need the specified seal. Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Tatchbury Mount Hospital (to the south of Ower) the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product.
Ower is about 2 miles north-west of Totton, in Hampshire. Commercial clients in Ower use us for work on service penetrations. Ower is one of 723 places in Hampshire on our list for service penetrations. Sites around Southampton have their own page, roughly 7 miles from Ower.
Postcode districts covered here: SO51. Buildings on Romsey Road and Salisbury Road are within our area. If your building is just outside Ower, we cover Wigley (1 mile north), Hillstreet (1 mile east), Copythorne (1 mile south-west), Winsor (1 mile south-west) and Newbridge (2 miles west). Nearby towns on our patch include Winchester (12 miles north-east), Eastleigh (8 miles east), Chandler's Ford (7 miles north-east), Hedge End (10 miles east), Lymington (13 miles south) and Romsey (4 miles north-east).
What’s near Ower
For rail, the closest station is Totton station, about 3 miles south-east. Well-known places in the area include Eling Experience (2.8 miles south-east) and Tatchbury Mount Hospital (1.1 miles south). For a walk, there’s Copythorne Common.
Nearby places to Ower
Other services in Ower
What we’re called out for in Ower
Linear gaps fail where a fire-resisting wall meets a slab, soffit or another wall. Deflection and building movement can open these gaps, and a product not tested for that movement may crack. Linear joint details set a width range and movement capability, and the seal has to sit within them.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Hidden openings found during inspections
In a retail centre such as Nursling Retail Park, 2.8 miles to the east of Ower, any fire-resisting wall between units that is crossed by new services needs sealing to the tested detail.
What to look for in a quote
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
How the job changes by surface
Plastic pipes
In a fire, plastic pipework melts away and leaves an opening. Small sizes are sometimes covered by an intumescent sealant detail. We check the pipe material and diameter against the detail before we start.
Risers and ceiling voids
Service risers and the voids above ceilings are where openings collect. Access is often tight, so we agree it with you in advance along with any permits your site needs.