Passfield fire stopping
Need fire stopping in Passfield? It’s simple: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed.
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Hidden openings found during inspections
Fire stopping in Passfield
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Why act early in Passfield
Fire stopping is a regular point raised at inspections and handover. Late discoveries can delay handover while openings are reopened and resealed. Converted and older buildings near places like Passfield tend to move, and aged sealant cracks. A sealant with the right movement capability, correctly sized, lasts far better.
We don’t publish prices, because the scope varies so much from one building to the next. Call for a quote.
Why clients in Passfield choose us
- CHAS accredited
- CSCS-carded applicators
- One number for every site we cover
- A fixed quote before work starts
See how commercial sealant jobs are priced and our accreditations and insurance.
Fire stopping in Passfield, done properly
No fire sealant works on its own: the evidence covers a specific product, wall or floor type, service, gap, depth and backing. We match each opening to that detail before any sealant goes in, and we say so if it doesn’t fit. We work on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads, and what we are called in for most is fire stopping installed outside its tested range and penetration schedules that need working through. Most enquiries from Passfield 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.
Around smaller places like Passfield, penetration seals come up in schools, halls, pubs with rooms, care homes and farm buildings used as offices. If sealant is what the specification names, we install it around the services exactly as the maker’s detail sets out.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and the quote explains what it covers.
- Place
- Passfield (GU30)
- Wider area
- Hampshire
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Honest limits
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
Not sure which it is? You can speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly.
Surfaces we seal
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
Your questions answered
Is Passfield off your patch?
No. Places such as Passfield are covered as much as the big towns. We work across Greater London and the South East. We plan jobs in smaller places so return trips are kept to a minimum.
Does your area include sites such as Passfield Industrial Estate, near Passfield?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Passfield, Passfield Industrial Estate among them, are all within reach. A few photographs and the unit address let us price the work.
Do you need to see the site first?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. Where they aren’t, we arrange a site visit.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
That depends on the product specified. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so the available colours are confirmed with the quote.
How soon can the area be used again?
That comes down to the sealant and the temperature. Some products skin over quickly but need longer to cure fully, so we will confirm the curing time on the day.
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 and the installation has to match the test.
Can you tell us what fire stopping our building needs?
No, that isn’t our role. With the designer’s details in hand, we can price the sealant elements.
Different surfaces, different methods
Masonry and concrete
Openings through concrete vary from tidy cores to rough break-outs. The gap is measured at the widest point against the detail’s limits, and any that don’t are flagged.
Metal pipes
Copper and steel pipes are a common service penetration for fire-rated sealant. The tested detail sets the pipe size range, gap, depth and whether insulation can stay on, so we check each one.
More services for Passfield
Do you need fire stopping in Passfield?
When a seal departs from its tested detail, the evidence no longer covers it. Gaps beyond the tested size, shallow sealant, no backing where it was needed, or products from different systems mixed together are what we find most often.
Most enquiries start with one or more of the following:
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
For a unit at a site such as Passfield Industrial Estate, less than half a mile to the north of Passfield, new power or data runs between office and warehouse can breach a compartment wall.
Questions to ask before you book
- How long is the guarantee, and what does it include?
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
Our process
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. Any old material is cut back to clean, sound faces, primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, and the sealant is tooled off neatly. For a building around Passfield, tell us how to find it and who will meet us. Send that with the details and we’ll confirm the plan with the quote.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
Request a quote
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. The first step is to speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email with what you know.
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Penetration seals near Passfield
Central London is about 42 miles from Passfield. Tenant changes on commuter-belt business parks mean regular fit-outs, and new services through compartment walls. 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.
Holiday works at schools like Mill Chase Academy often leave service openings to seal before pupils return. On a hospital site such as Chase Hospital, 1.5 miles to the north-west of Passfield, fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it, with the work planned around the estates team’s permits.
Passfield is about 7 miles south-east of Alton, in Hampshire. Commercial clients in Passfield can call on us for service penetrations. Passfield is one of 723 places we cover in Hampshire. Our Portsmouth page has more on work in that area.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout GU30. Buildings on The Lyndons, Eleanor Close and Lynchborough Road are within our area. Close to Passfield, our area also takes in Conford (1 mile south-east), Weavers Down (1 mile south), Liphook (2 miles south-east), Woolmer (2 miles south-west) and Longmoor (2 miles south-west). Further afield, our area takes in Farnborough (14 miles north), Fleet (12 miles north), Horndean (15 miles south-west), Aldershot (11 miles north), Alton (7 miles north-west) and Petersfield (8 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Passfield
For rail, the closest station is Liphook station, roughly 2.3 miles south-east. Other landmarks nearby include Chase Community Hospital (1.5 miles north-west). Open spaces near Passfield include Deadwater Valley and Wheeler's Down.
Doing it in-house
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. Where it goes wrong is preparation: sealing over old material, sealing onto damp or dusty surfaces, or a product that can’t take the movement.