Staplers fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Staplers. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
Fire stopping in Staplers
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping in Staplers
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. We work from your penetration schedule or marked-up drawings. Tell us what records you need and we will confirm with the quote. We work on service gaps in risers, cable penetrations and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, and what we are called in for most is seals disturbed by maintenance and left open and fire sealant pulled out of the opening. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Staplers first comes to us: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
Around Staplers, penetration and linear seals tend to be one-building jobs. With the specification and photographs of the gaps, we can give a fixed quote and bring the right products.
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
- Staplers (PO30)
- Region
- Isle of Wight
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Work for main contractors and building owners
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Staplers can form part of a wider programme.
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send the details, accept a fixed quote, and we carry out and guarantee the work. We can agree access arrangements and keyholder contacts beforehand.
Why act early in Staplers
It is cheaper to seal service penetrations as each services package finishes than to come back for them later. While the area is still open, every opening is easy to see and reach and each detail can be checked as we go. Sealant hardens, cracks and loses grip with age, UV and movement. Renewing it in good time keeps the building weathertight.
Pricing service penetrations depends on how many there are, their condition and the access, and any specification that applies. Call for a quote.
Why us?
- A Constructionline member, so easy to vet
- Commercial sealant work since 2005
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- Public liability insurance in place
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or how we’re accredited.
What affects the price in Staplers
Sealant work doesn’t have a standard rate, since sites vary so much. What we take into account:
- Phasing around occupants
- How accessible the joints are
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- Removal of failed or old sealant
There’s no price list, since every building and every scope is different. Call for a quote and we will price your job on its own details.
Details that help us quote
It doesn’t need to be a full survey. These details are enough to start:
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Any dates the work must fit around
- How the joints are reached, and at what height
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
Need a figure for a tender or a budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings you can plan around. For a chat about it beforehand, call 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
When it isn’t the sealant
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. On its own, sealant can’t deal with:
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Fire doors, dampers or other fire safety equipment
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
Not sure which it is? You can ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
Staplers: questions and answers
Can you work in a care home near Staplers with residents in?
Yes. We agree rooms and times with the manager and work a few areas at a time. Noise and disruption are kept to a minimum.
Do you cover business parks and estates near Staplers, such as Newport Retail Park?
Yes, sites like Newport Retail Park are within our area, along with the rest of Staplers. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. The specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance are what we work to, and we raise anything unclear before work begins.
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 much does the work cost?
We don’t publish prices, as every site differs. Send photographs or drawings and we’ll price it at a fixed figure.
Is the work guaranteed?
Yes, for 12 months. If our installation fails in that time, we return and fix it.
Do the same rules apply to fire stopping in Scotland?
Our work covers Greater London, the South East and every Scottish council area. Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14, expects service penetrations to be fire stopped to at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance.
Also near Staplers
What else we do in Staplers
Fire stopping in Staplers: the local picture
There are five care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Staplers. In a care home, any new pipe or cable through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail. Where that’s fire-rated sealant, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail. 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.
For a site team at a college like HTP Apprenticeship College (0.9 miles west of Staplers), fire-rated sealing is best scheduled after the summer works. For a hospital such as Orchard Private Hospital (0.8 miles north of Staplers), penetration sealing is usually phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first.
Staplers is about 1 mile east of Newport, in the Isle of Wight. We send applicators to Staplers for service penetrations. We work across 125 places in the Isle of Wight. There’s a separate page for Portsmouth, about 11 miles away.
We cover the PO30 postcode districts. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Pan Lane, Ash Road and Mews Lane and the roads nearby. Just outside Staplers, we also work in Barton (1 mile west), Cross Lane (1 mile north-west), Fairlee (1 mile north-west), Hillgrove (1 mile north-east) and Wootton (3 miles north-east). A short drive away, we cover Ryde (5 miles east), Cowes (4 miles north), Sandown (6 miles south-east), Shanklin (6 miles south-east), Ventnor (8 miles south) and East Cowes (4 miles north). Where a site is remote or on an island, we plan travel and materials carefully, so the full address helps from the start.
Around Staplers
Recent enquiries here include premises near Medina College, Seaclose Park and Island Innovation VI Form Campus, among other places. Well-known places in the area include Isle of Wight Bus & Coach Museum (0.7 miles north-west) and Carisbrooke Castle (1.9 miles south-west). The countryside around Staplers includes Mill Hill and Briddlesford Nature Reserve.
On site: what to expect
On arrival, we report to your site contact and complete whatever induction the building runs. Everything around the joints gets protected before any cutting starts, and the work typically takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building. Work in places the size of Staplers is planned as a single visit where we can. Clear photos and measurements help us bring the right products.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
What we need from you
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
Get a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, call 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. You can also send details through our quote form.
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When to call us in Staplers
Head-of-wall joints and wall-to-wall junctions are frequent weak points. Deflection and building movement can open these gaps, and a product not tested for that movement may crack. The tested detail for a linear joint states the width and movement it covers.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
Hotels such as Newport Quay Hotel (to the west of Staplers) rely on fire-resisting walls between bedrooms and corridors, and refits that add services leave penetrations to seal where fire-rated sealant is specified.
Comparing quotes
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- What site paperwork they can supply
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint