Fire Stopping
"FIRE STOPPING"The sealing of breaches and joints in Fire Resisting walls or floors.
Every building requires services like electrical cables, plumbing and drainage pipes to be run throughout in order for it to suitably operate.
It is these breaches in Fire
Resisting walls that can allow the spread of smoke and heat, Fire Stopping is the sealing of these breaches.
Fire Stopping should be installed either during the
construction phase or as any new services are run through Fire
Resisting walls during the life of the
building.
Approved Document B says "if a fire separating element is to be effective, every joint or imperfection of fit, or opening to allow services to pass through the element, should be adequately protected by sealing or Fire Stopping so that the Fire Resistance of the element is not impaired".
Different breaches will require a different type of Fire Stopping material or product.
FIRE STOPPING SURVEYS
A Fire Risk Assessment may pick up a lack of Fire Stopping within your building. The next stage will be to conduct a full survey of all Fire Resisting and Compartment walls to record all breaches and or incomplete compartmentalisation.
The report will grade the breach based on the type and its location to assist in any prioritising of works. The report can then be handed over to the Fire Stopping Installation team.
FIRE STOPPING INSTALLATIONS
Once identified each breach can then be repaired with the appropriate material or product. A unique tag will be placed next to the Fire Stopping installation identifying the installer and the product used to achieve what Fire Resisting period.
All of our engineers have been trained specifically by our preferred manufacturer in all aspects of specification, application and installation for all of their products to provide further evidence of competency.
FIRE STOPPING CASE STUDIES
LINTON HOTEL
Providing Fire Stopping Inspections during the refurbishment of a care home to a hotel.
We provided the inspections and technical product support for the on site team to install during the building works, finalising with a Fire Risk Assessment before the hotel was occupied.
FAIROAK ESTATE MANAGEMENT
Providing Fire Stopping Inspection and Installations.
By partnering Fairoak who are an Estate Management company we were able to support them providing detailed reports and Fire Stopping works to their end residential blocks of flats.
ICON HOTEL
Fire Stopping works were required with the addition of a wood burning pizza oven in the hotels main restaurant.
We was involved from the design stage through to the installation of the oven to oversee any impact on Fire Safety and install the Fire Stopping for extraction of the pizza oven.