Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Selmeston, East Sussex
Fire stopping for Selmeston, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
Fire stopping for Selmeston sites
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Fire stopping in Selmeston: the local picture
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. Either way, we install the specified product to its tested detail. At about 47 miles from central London, Selmeston is within reach of the capital. Offices around the capital are refitted often, and the cabling that follows can breach fire-resisting walls.
Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital, 5.3 miles to the south-west of Selmeston, the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product. On a site such as Berwick Court Farm Business Park, which lies south-east of Selmeston, every fit-out that runs new services through a compartment wall leaves penetrations to seal with the specified product. Halls and meeting rooms at places like The Parish Church of St Mary sometimes gain new services, and any compartment wall crossed needs the specified seal.
Selmeston is about 5 miles north of Seaford, in East Sussex. Selmeston sits inside our coverage, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Across East Sussex, 308 places are covered, including Selmeston. Brighton is covered too, some 12 miles away.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in BN26 gets the same process as the rest of our area: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Streets here include The Street and Lewes Road, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Just outside Selmeston, we also work in Alciston (1 mile south), Berwick (1 mile east), Ripe (2 miles north), Winton (2 miles south) and Wickstreet (2 miles north-east). A short drive away, we cover Eastbourne (7 miles south-east), Bexhill-on-Sea (14 miles east), Seaford (5 miles south), Lewes (6 miles west), Hailsham (5 miles east) and Crowborough (14 miles north).
What’s near Selmeston
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Barley Mow pub. The closest station to Selmeston is Berwick (Sussex) station, about 1 mile east of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Drusillas Museum (1.8 miles south-east) and Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital (5.3 miles south-west). The countryside around Selmeston includes Firle Beacon.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Selmeston
A lot of fire-stopping work comes after M&E installation, a refit or a tenant fit-out. Each new cable, pipe or data route cut through a fire-resisting wall leaves an opening behind. Those on your schedule are closed with the specified product. If you have snag lists that include open service penetrations and open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls, we can help. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Selmeston, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
A job near Selmeston is usually planned around one visit, with the specification and photos sent in advance. We install to the specification and the manufacturer’s guidance, leaving design and sign-off with the designer and building control.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, in Selmeston as everywhere else we work. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Location
- Selmeston (BN26)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Different surfaces, different methods
Masonry and concrete
Block walls and concrete floors are common substrates for penetration seals. Dust and loose debris are cleared out of the opening.
Drylining partitions
Drylined fire walls are tested in a particular build-up. The sealant detail has to be tested in that wall type, with the stated board layers before sealing.
Should maintenance staff do it?
Some joints are best left to specialists: for example fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
Redoing a failed joint normally costs more than getting it right at the outset, since all of it has to come out and the faces be cleaned back again. For that reason, many FMs and contractors use a sealant specialist from the outset.
Your questions answered
Can you work around term dates at a campus such as University of Brighton?
Yes. Tell us the term dates, vacation periods and access windows, and we’ll plan the work around them. Let us know which documents your site asks for, and we’ll confirm them alongside the quote.
Is Selmeston too far out for you?
Not at all. Selmeston is within our area. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
What do you charge?
It depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a quote and we’ll price it properly.
Do you design or specify fire stopping?
No. Deciding what is needed sits with the designer, fire engineer and building control. Our role is installing what they specify, to the product’s tested detail.
How soon can the area be used again?
We’ll confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and the quote will be based on it.
Who decides which product is used?
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.
What happens if it’s left?
Fire stopping is a regular point raised at inspections and handover. Finding unsealed or improvised openings late can hold up a programme which is why earlier is better. For buildings around smaller places like Selmeston, water damage can go unnoticed for longer, especially where a building isn’t used daily, so a failed joint can leak for a while before anyone sees it. Renewing joints in good time avoids the problem.
Cost follows what’s involved: stripping out, preparation, sealing, access and phasing. Call for a quote.
Why us?
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
- Workmanship guaranteed for 12 months
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- CHAS accredited
Building owners, agents and FMs in Selmeston
FMs need a contractor who is easy to get on site. Let us know the documents you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we’ll confirm them with the quote.
We work for building owners and managing agents on everything from one building to a spread of sites. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
How the quote is worked out
Sealant work doesn’t have a standard rate, because every site is different. What we take into account:
- The total length or number of joints
- Phasing around occupants
- The site’s rules and procedures
- The product specified
We don’t publish prices, because the scope varies so much from one building to the next. For a fixed figure, call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
Sending details for a quote
For an accurate fixed quote, we need to understand the site. Useful things to include:
- Any dates the work must fit around
- A wide shot and a close-up of the area
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Any specification or named product
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and a fixed quote will follow. To get it moving, call 01277 525 020 or send photos by email.
Also in Selmeston
How a job runs
On arrival, we sign in, go through any site induction and check how permits are handled. Everything around the joints gets protected before anything is cut or cleaned, with the work itself normally taking longer where risers, ceiling voids or occupied floors have to be worked through in sequence. For work around Selmeston, we aim to finish in one visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. 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.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Send your site hours and access windows
Getting a fixed quote
The quickest route to a quote is a few photographs and the site postcode. Send them through the quote form, or phone 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings to discuss it first.