Fire Stopping in Peasemore
Planning work on a service penetration in Peasemore? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping for businesses in Peasemore
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Peasemore, done properly
Facilities managers in Peasemore often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. If a specification already covers those walls and floors, we can reseal to it using the product and detail it sets out. With no specification in place, the first step sits with your designer or fire engineer, not with us. The enquiries we see most involve penetration schedules that need working through and hidden openings found during inspections, on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: in Peasemore, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Rural conversions around Peasemore can put new fire-resisting partitions inside older structures. A penetration seal only performs as tested if product, substrate, service, gap and depth all match the detail.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Place
- Peasemore (RG20)
- Wider area
- West Berkshire
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
FAQs: Peasemore
Do you design the fire stopping for buildings in Peasemore?
No. Fire-stopping design and sign-off belong to the designer, principal designer, fire engineer or building control. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail.
Is Peasemore off your patch?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Send photos and a list of what needs doing, and we’ll 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. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a visit before quoting.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and we will price the work to it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
What will the job cost?
Every job gets its own fixed quote. For yours, phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with a description of the work.
Are you insured?
Yes. We’re fully insured, including public liability cover.
How soon can the area be used again?
The product and site conditions decide that. Some take light use quickly, others need longer to cure, and we confirm it before leaving site.
After the work
After handover, these steps help:
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
Once the seals are in, tell other trades they exist and must not be disturbed. If a seal has to be opened for a new service, it should be reinstated to the same detail.
The simplest way to keep compartment walls intact is to plan fire stopping into every job that crosses them. That way the opening is sealed while the trade and access are still there.
Also near Peasemore
What else we do in Peasemore
Fire stopping in Peasemore: the local picture
Approved Document B is the English guidance that covers fire stopping around 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. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail. At about 54 miles from central London, Peasemore is within reach of the capital. Tenant changes on commuter-belt business parks mean regular fit-outs, and new services through compartment walls; the gaps need the specified seal.
In a building such as Church of St Barnabas, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail. Buildings near Peasemore get the fire-rated product that’s specified, installed to its tested detail.
Peasemore is about 7 miles north of Newbury, in West Berkshire. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Peasemore use us for work on service penetrations, as part of our coverage of West Berkshire. Peasemore is one of 140 places in West Berkshire on our list for service penetrations. We also cover Reading, some 16 miles away.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in RG20 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Among the streets we cover are Field Road, The Pightle and Hillgreen Lane. Close to Peasemore, our area also takes in Leckhampstead (1 mile south-west), Beedon (2 miles east), Downend (2 miles south-east), North Heath (2 miles south) and World's End (2 miles east). A short drive away, we cover Newbury (7 miles south), Thatcham (7 miles south-east), Burghfield Common (14 miles south-east), Speenhamland (6 miles south), Hungerford (9 miles south-west) and Fords Farm (14 miles east).
Near you in Peasemore
In Peasemore, that means premises near The Fox pub. Nearby you will also find Hampstead Norris Castle (4.5 miles east). Not far away are Snelsmore Common.
When it isn’t the sealant
A few problems need another trade or a different fix, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
If you’re not sure, just call the office on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Surfaces we seal
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
Our process
Before we leave any area, the masking comes off, the area is cleaned and every joint is checked. Where the sealant needs time to cure before use, we tell you and sign the area. For work around Peasemore, we aim to finish in one visit, so photos and measurements up front really help. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- 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.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out first.
- Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
Preparing the site
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
- Agree which areas must stay open
Ask for a quote
To get a fixed quote, ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. You can also send details through our quote form.
Advice
How the job changes by surface
Drylining partitions
Service holes through plasterboard are frequently oversized or ragged. An oversized hole may be outside the sealant’s range, and the detail may call for board patching or another product.
Plastic pipes
Plastic pipes soften and collapse in a fire. Some intumescent sealants are tested on smaller plastic pipes. We check the pipe material and diameter against the detail before we start.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Some joints are best left to specialists: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. 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.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Facilities managers want contractors who arrive with the paperwork sorted. Let us know the documents you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm them with the quote.
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we make supplier vetting simple. Our insurance certificate can be sent along with the quote.