South Bersted fire stopping
Need fire stopping in South Bersted? Send us the details for a fixed quote, backed by a 12-month guarantee on the work.
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
Fire stopping for businesses in South Bersted
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
Quoting for work in South Bersted
Before we quote, we look at:
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- The total length or number of joints
The specified product makes a difference, as does the preparation each joint needs, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
What we need to price the job
However big the job, the same details help:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Approximate linear metres or a joint schedule
- Access details, including height
- The type of building and who uses it
Need a figure for a tender or a budget? Send the scope and any drawings, and we will return a fixed quote you can plan around. For a chat about it beforehand, ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
How we handle fire stopping in South Bersted
The test standards are BS EN 1366-3 for penetration seals and BS EN 1366-4 for linear joints, with results classified under BS EN 13501-2. A rating such as EI 60 only holds when the product is installed as it was tested. So our job is to reproduce that arrangement faithfully. Site teams most often ask us about improvised or mixed-product fire seals and unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab, across cable penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and pipe penetrations. Whoever orders the work in South Bersted, the brief is usually the same: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
In places the size of South Bersted, fire-resisting walls and floors are found in schools, care homes, health centres and mixed-use buildings. Specified fire-rated sealant goes around new services there, built to match the manufacturer’s detail.
Every job ends the same way: guaranteed. You get a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, and the quote explains what it covers.
- Place
- South Bersted (PO21, PO22, BN14)
- Region
- West Sussex
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Common questions from South Bersted clients
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital?
Yes, healthcare and care buildings are part of our work. The estates team’s permit system and infection-control rules come first, and the work is planned around them.
Do you seal service penetrations in hotels around South Bersted?
Yes. We install fire-rated and intumescent sealant where it is specified. It goes in to the manufacturer’s tested detail for the wall or floor and the services passing through, and we’ll tell you if the detail calls for a collar, wrap or batt instead.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes. The 12-month guarantee covers our preparation and application, though not damage or work by other trades.
How do I request a quote?
The quote form is the simplest route, though you can also give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos. Include photos or drawings if you have them.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
It depends on the product specified. Some ranges are wide, others limited, so we will confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
What will the job cost?
We don’t publish prices, as every site differs. With photographs or drawings, we can give you a fixed quote.
Is any job too small?
Single areas, one-off repairs and whole buildings are all quoted the same way: details, then a fixed price, then sealing, then a 12-month guarantee.
Aftercare for building managers
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- Include service cupboards in routine inspections
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
- Have penetrations checked while they can still be seen
After every round of M&E works, check that the openings created have been sealed. A short check at the end of each job saves a long hunt later.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. It costs little and catches breaches early.
For managing agents and facilities managers
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in South Bersted can sit alongside others in a wider programme.
We work for building owners and managing agents on everything from one building to a spread of sites around South Bersted. Several sites can go on one quote, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Where services cross fire walls in South Bersted
South Bersted has 13 care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Care settings depend on compartmentation, so service penetrations made during maintenance or refurbishment need sealing with the specified product. We install fire-rated sealant to the tested detail where it is specified. For England, the fire stopping of penetrations is dealt with in 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. We install whatever has been specified, to the product’s tested detail.
For a hospital such as Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital, less than half a mile to the south of South Bersted, penetration sealing is usually phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first. Where a unit on an estate such as Durban Road Industrial Estate, less than half a mile to the north of South Bersted, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail.
South Bersted is about 1 mile north-east of Bognor Regis, in West Sussex. Anywhere in PO21, the process is the same: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. South Bersted is one of 373 places we cover in West Sussex for service penetrations. Portsmouth is covered too, some 18 miles away.
Postcode districts covered here: PO21, PO22 and BN14 for service penetrations. Buildings on Ivy Lane, Hook Lane and Essex Road are within our area for service penetrations. Sites close to South Bersted are covered too, including Bognor Regis (1 mile south-west), Felpham (1 mile east), Shripney (1 mile north), Aldwick (2 miles south-west) and Flansham (2 miles north-east). A short drive away, we cover Worthing (12 miles east), Chichester (6 miles north-west), Selsey (6 miles south-west), Littlehampton (6 miles east), Rustington (7 miles east) and Storrington (13 miles north-east).
Near you in South Bersted
We work on buildings around The Brooks Local Nature Reserve, The Regis School and The William Hardwicke pub and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in South Bersted itself: Bognor Regis station. Well-known places in the area include Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital (less than half a mile south) and Bognor Regis Museum (0.8 miles south).
Other services in South Bersted
Surface by surface
Metal pipes
Sealant details often cover copper and steel pipework. The tested detail sets the pipe size range, gap, depth and whether insulation can stay on, so we check each one.
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. The specified product and backing for that movement are what goes in, with no gaps along the run.
Signs you need fire stopping in South Bersted
Openings in fire-resisting walls usually appear when services are added or changed. New cabling, rerouted pipework or a data route drilled through a riser leaves an opening that nobody returns to. Over a few years of fit-outs, a wall can collect a lot of these.
Common reasons buildings call us in:
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
For an estates team at a campus like University of Chichester (Bognor Campus) (0.6 miles south-east of South Bersted), summer M&E works are typically followed by a round of penetration sealing.
Before you book anyone
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- How joint depth will be controlled
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and the sealant is tooled off neatly. What matters most for a job in South Bersted is a clear list of what needs doing. You’ll then get a fixed price for the work.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send and ask about anything unclear.
- On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- We apply the specified sealant to the depth and around the services as the detail shows.
- If an opening needs something other than sealant, we tell you instead of improvising.
Getting the site ready
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Let building users know which areas are affected
Getting a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with the site address and an outline of the work. You can also send details through our quote form.