Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Upperton, West Sussex
Looking for fire stopping in Upperton? Send us the details for a fixed quote, backed by a 12-month guarantee on the work.
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
Fire stopping in Upperton
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Questions about Upperton
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Midhurst Community Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Before anything starts, the estates team agrees permits, inductions and infection-control measures with us.
Is Upperton off your patch?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. London and every South East county are within our area. Where we can, we group nearby jobs to make the most of each trip.
How long does a job like this take?
The duration is planned around your programme and the access we’re given. You will have an expected duration with the quote.
Is the BS 476 change in 2029 relevant to fire stopping?
For buildings in England, Approved Document B removes BS 476 references from 2 September 2029. Classification to BS EN 13501-2 becomes the expected evidence, though transitional rules apply. Scotland follows its own Technical Handbook.
Can you send site paperwork?
Requirements differ from site to site, so list what you need, whether RAMS, insurance or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm with the quote.
Do you hold third-party fire-stopping installer certification?
No. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and our applicators are CSCS-carded. If your contract requires third-party installer certification, we’re not the right fit for that package.
Will fire-rated sealant work on every penetration?
No. It depends on the tested detail for that wall or floor and service. Large openings, many plastic pipes and some ducts need collars, wraps, batts or boards, and we flag those rather than improvise.
How we handle fire stopping in Upperton
The test standards are BS EN 1366-3 for penetration seals and BS EN 1366-4 for linear joints. 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. The enquiries we see most involve damaged fire seals in risers and voids and open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls, across joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, cable penetrations and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: on jobs in Upperton, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
Around smaller places like Upperton, penetration seals come up in schools, halls, pubs with rooms, care homes and farm buildings used as offices. If sealant is what the specification names, we install it around the services exactly as the maker’s detail sets out.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: the preparation, the sealing and the tooling. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Location
- Upperton (GU28)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
When to call us in Upperton
Openings in fire-resisting walls normally appear when services are added or changed. A new cable pulled by an electrician, a pipe rerouted by a plumber or a data run 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.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
In a building such as The Parish Church of All Hallows, any service penetration through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail.
Questions to ask before you book
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Who will actually carry out the work
- How long is the guarantee, and what does it include?
- How joint depth will be controlled
On site: what to expect
We follow your site rules from the start: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. Once we are cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. Jobs in and around smaller places like Upperton are typically planned as a single visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. That way the right products come on the day.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send.
- 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.
What we need from you
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Move anything stored against the joints
Ask for a quote
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
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Fire-rated sealing for Upperton buildings
At about 42 miles from central London, Upperton is within reach of the capital. Business park offices in the commuter belt are refitted as tenants change, and each fit-out adds services through compartment walls, and the gaps need sealing with the specified product. For England, the fire stopping of penetrations is dealt with in Approved Document B. References to the older BS 476 classes are being removed from it from 2 September 2029, after which the European classification, BS EN 13501-2, is the route, subject to transitional arrangements. What we install is set by the specification, and it goes in to the tested detail.
Hotels such as The Angel Hotel, 1.4 miles to the south-east of Upperton, rely on fire-resisting walls between bedrooms and corridors, and refits that add services leave penetrations to seal where fire-rated sealant is specified. Where a unit on an estate such as Hampers Common Industrial Estate (1.1 miles east of Upperton), has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail.
Upperton is about 12 miles north-east of Chichester, in West Sussex. We cover Upperton, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Across West Sussex, 373 places are covered, Upperton among them. Our Portsmouth page has more on work in that area.
Commercial sites across GU28 are covered for service penetrations. If your building is just outside Upperton, we cover Tillington (1 mile south-east), Hampers Green (1 mile east), River (1 mile west), Petworth (1 mile south-east) and Rotherbridge (2 miles south). Nearby towns on our patch include Horsham (14 miles east), Bognor Regis (14 miles south), Chichester (12 miles south-west), Littlehampton (14 miles south), Rustington (14 miles south-east) and Storrington (10 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Upperton
Other landmarks nearby include Midhurst Community Hospital (4.3 miles west) and Coultershaw Heritage Site (2.2 miles south). Open spaces near Upperton include Graffham Common and Blackdown.
Nearby places to Upperton
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How the job changes by surface
Risers and ceiling voids
Voids hide a lot of unsealed openings. We work through the areas on your schedule methodically, and note anything we find that isn’t on it.
Cables and cable bundles
Data cabling added after handover is a regular cause of open service penetrations. Openings around new cables are resealed to the detail, and any bundle too large for sealant alone is flagged.
Building owners, agents and FMs in Upperton
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end, plus a 12-month guarantee.
When it isn’t the sealant
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we say so rather than covering them up:
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
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
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
Quoting for work in Upperton
Quotes vary with the job. Expect it to depend on:
- The product specified
- Travel to remote or island sites
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- Access and working height
Whether it’s a single area or a whole estate, the same things set the price: scope, access, product and programme. Call for a quote, and you’ll have a fixed figure to work with.
Before you send an enquiry
A few photos plus some basic facts will normally do. It helps to include:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. The first step is to ring 01277 525 020 or use the quote form with what you know.