Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Patching, West Sussex
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Patching and across West Sussex. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
Fire stopping for Patching sites
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
After the work
For the best life from the joints:
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Look above ceilings when tiles are lifted for other jobs
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.
Make reporting new openings part of every permit to work in service areas. Small habits like this stop openings building up.
Fire stopping in Patching
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos with the schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. We work on small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows, linear gaps at wall heads and service gaps in risers, and the failures we’re asked to look at most are fire sealant pulled out of the opening and fire stopping installed outside its tested range. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, the work in Patching is the same: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Rural conversions around Patching can put new fire-resisting partitions inside older structures. Where a pipe or cable passes through a fire-resisting wall, the seal must match the tested detail: product, substrate, gap and depth.
We stand by our work: 12 months, guaranteed. It covers how we prepared and applied the sealant.
- Location
- Patching (BN13)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Work for main contractors and building owners
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. Work can be phased so residents and staff keep access throughout, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Patching can form part of a wider programme.
What affects the price in Patching
The price varies from site to site. Expect it to depend on:
- How much there is to seal
- How much existing material needs removing
- Location, for remote and island sites
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
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.
Details that help us quote
Diagnosis starts before we arrive. Tell us:
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- The postcode of the building
- Clear photographs of the problem areas
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
Your questions answered
Is a hospital such as Goring Hall Hospital somewhere you can work?
Yes, provided the work is planned with the site’s estates team. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Is Patching off your patch?
No. Places such as Patching are covered as much as the big towns. Our area covers London and the South East counties. We plan jobs in smaller places so return trips are kept to a minimum.
Do you take on small jobs?
Small jobs are welcome alongside larger packages. Send details for a fixed quote.
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.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
In many cases, yes. Sealants are made in a wide range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or nearby finishes is commonly requested. We confirm what’s available for the specified product when we quote.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No. Sealing over old material is one of the classic causes of early joint failure, so it all comes out first.
Which sealant will you use?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. Without one, the joint decides: how much it moves, what it bonds to and whether it’s wet, trafficked or fire-rated.
Penetration seals near Patching
Patching has two care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Where new services have gone through compartment walls in a care setting, the gaps need the specified product. Where that’s fire-rated sealant, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail. Fire stopping of openings and penetrations in England falls under Approved Document B. 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. What we install is set by the specification, and it goes in to the tested detail.
For a school such as Clapham and Patching CofE Primary School, penetration sealing fits best at the end of the summer works. Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Goring Hall Hospital, 2.7 miles south of Patching, the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product.
Patching is about 3 miles north-west of Worthing, in West Sussex. Anywhere in BN13, it works the same way: details in, fixed quote out, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Across West Sussex, 373 places are covered, Patching among them. Our Brighton page has more on work in that area, about 14 miles away.
Business premises anywhere in BN13 are within our area. For a building on The Street and Coldharbour Lane or nearby, we can quote for service penetrations. Close to Patching, our area also takes in Clapham (1 mile south-east), Hammerpot (2 miles west), Cote (2 miles east), Angmering (2 miles south-west) and Hangleton (2 miles south). A short drive away, we cover Worthing (3 miles south-east), Bognor Regis (11 miles west), Chichester (14 miles west), Littlehampton (4 miles south-west), Shoreham-by-Sea (8 miles east) and Lancing (6 miles east).
Landmarks near Patching
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Fox pub, The Angmering School and Clapham Wood, among other places. The nearest railway station is Goring-By-Sea station, roughly 2.3 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Museum of Sussex Folklore (3.1 miles south-east) and Old Castle (3.1 miles south-east). Green spaces nearby include WWT Arundel and Highdown Hill.
What else we do in Patching
How a job runs
The first thing on site is a walk round with your contact, to confirm the scope, the order of work and any areas we must keep clear. Then we strip out anything that has failed, prepare every joint and seal it. For work around Patching, we aim to finish in one visit, so we ask for photographs and rough sizes first. That way the right products come on the day.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
Quotes
Every quote starts with the facts: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Send what you have, and we will arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.
Advice
Honest limits
Honesty saves time and money. New sealant won’t cure:
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
Not sure which it is? You can ring 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work in Patching
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Cable penetrations
What we are called out for in Patching
Most open service penetrations are left by later work. New cabling, rerouted pipework or a data route drilled through a riser can leave the hole behind. Over a few years of fit-outs, a wall can collect a lot of these.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
In a building such as The Parish Church of St John the Divine, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail.
What your quote should include
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
- What site paperwork they can supply