Fire stopping in Roke
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Roke. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
Need fire stopping in Roke?
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Roke
Our applicators are CSCS-carded, and we are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate and we’d rather say that up front. We install the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail, and our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee. If you’re dealing with fire sealant pulled out of the opening and expanding foam used as fire stopping, we can help, on pipe penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows alike. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: on jobs in Roke, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
Rural conversions around Roke 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 sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Location
- Roke (OX10)
- Wider area
- Oxfordshire
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Different surfaces, different methods
Plastic pipes
Plastic waste pipes through slabs come up often. The detail decides whether sealant alone is enough, and we won’t substitute it for a specified collar.
Small ducts
Ducts are only sealed with sealant where the detail allows it. Dampers and ductwork systems themselves are outside our work.
Common problems we fix in Roke
Openings in fire-resisting walls normally appear when services are added or changed. New cabling, rerouted pipework or a data route drilled through a riser can leave the hole behind. Across several fit-outs, the openings add up.
Clients normally get in touch after noticing something like this:
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
On a site such as Monument Business Park (2.8 miles north-east of Roke), every fit-out that runs new services through a compartment wall leaves penetrations to seal with the specified product.
Comparing quotes
- How the existing material will be dealt with
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- How joint depth will be controlled
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
When it isn’t the sealant
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. Sealant alone won’t deal with:
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
If you are not sure, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we seal
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
Penetration seals near Roke
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. Our part stays the same: the specified product, installed to its tested detail. Roke lies roughly 44 miles out from central London. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls.
In a school such as Benson Church of England Primary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified. In a building such as Church of St Helen, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail.
Roke is about 7 miles east of Didcot, in Oxfordshire. Roke sits inside our coverage and the rest of Oxfordshire, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. 423 places across Oxfordshire fall within our area, including Roke. Oxford is covered too, around 10 miles from Roke.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout OX10, whatever the building. We also cover Ewelme (2 miles south-east), Brightwell Baldwin (2 miles north-east), Chalgrove (2 miles north), Britwell Salome (3 miles east) and Watlington (4 miles east) for service penetrations. Nearby towns on our patch include Oxford (10 miles north-west), Didcot (7 miles west), Abingdon-on-Thames (8 miles west), Thame (9 miles north-east), Wantage (14 miles west) and Henley-on-Thames (11 miles south-east).
What’s near Roke
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Home Sweet Home pub and Wallingford School and the streets around them. A little further out are Aston Martin Heritage Trust Museum (2.4 miles north-west) and Wallingford Castle (2.5 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Wittenham Clumps and Ewelme Watercress Beds.
How a job runs
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then we prepare and seal each joint with the specified product, and we finish with a walk round so the work can be signed off. Jobs in and around smaller places like Roke are usually planned as a single visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Unsuitable fillers and loose debris are taken out of each opening.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant is gunned in to the specified depth, then tooled.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
Preparing the site
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Let building users know which areas are affected
Quotes
A handful of photos and a postcode is the fastest way to a quote. Upload them with the quote form, or give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form if you’d rather talk the job through.
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For managing agents and facilities managers
Hotels, schools, healthcare sites, offices and retail units come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
FMs need a contractor who is easy to get on site. Tell us what site paperwork you need, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we will confirm with the quote.
Roke: questions and answers
Is Roke too small for you to travel to?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Send photographs and a list of what needs doing, and we will plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
Does your area include sites such as Monument Business Park, near Roke?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Roke, Monument Business Park among them, are all within reach. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price the work to it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Do you certify or sign off fire stopping?
No. Sign-off belongs to the designer or building control, not the installer. We will confirm the products and details used.
How long will the new sealant last?
It depends on movement, UV and weather, cleaning, traffic and the product. Sealant joints are maintenance items, so inspect them regularly.
What do BS EN 1366-3 and BS EN 13501-2 mean?
In short, BS EN 1366-3 and 1366-4 are the fire tests and BS EN 13501-2 is how results are classified. An EI 60 seal kept its integrity and insulation for 60 minutes as tested and the installation has to match the test.
Will fire-rated sealant work on every penetration?
No. A sealant’s evidence covers set services, gaps and wall or floor types. If an opening falls outside, it needs another solution, specified by your designer.
Leave it or put it right?
An improvised seal can look finished while offering no tested performance. Correcting it means cutting it out and starting again with the specified product. One visit to deal with every failing joint makes more sense than several trips to a place like Roke. Photos of every joint help us quote for the whole job.
We don’t publish prices, since every building and every scope is different. Call for a quote.
Why appoint us
- Health and safety: CHAS accredited
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- Failed material removed, not covered up
- Our applicators hold CSCS cards
Read how commercial sealant jobs are priced and how we’re accredited.