Fire Stopping Service
Cityview Fire Solutions offer a comprehensive range of fire stopping services to ensure building compartments, walls, floors, service risers and roof voids retain their life protection. By sealing the penetrations through the walls, roofs, floors, service risers and voids, we can ensure our clients buildings retain their fire resistance.
What Is Fire Stopping?
Fire Stopping, also known as compartmentation, is the preventative action taken to ensure a building is safe and compliant to government regulations. Article 17 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) order 2005, in respect of the requirement for maintenance of fire safety provisions. States that it is advisable to set up a regular planned preventative maintenance programme for completed works.
Cityview Fire Solutions is one of most experienced and respected specialist passive fire protection companies across the United Kingdom. With quality, compliance and value at the core of our offer, we can guarantee a real focus on customer satisfaction.
Working on time and to budget, we utilise cutting edge technology to improve customer service, working with you to ensure:
What is the Main Objective of Fire Compartmentation?
Fire stopping delays the spread of fire and, generally, the spread of smoke. A seal closes an imperfection of fit or design tolerance between elements or components, to restrict the spread of fire and smoke also known as penetration and linear joint seals.
Due to the vital role fire stopping should play in your overall fire strategy, its fundamental that both the fire resisting partitions and fire doors should be properly installed by competent persons able to fully understand the importance of correct installation of the product in the context of fire safety.
Fire stopping came into its own in the late 1970s to help reduce the catastrophic loss of life and property caused by smoke and other airborne pathogens. It is especially critical in buildings where the mobility of tenants is restricted including, hospitals, assisted living and nursing homes. Highrise buildings and prisons.
Fire Stopping Installation
In line with our 3rd party accreditations through LPS1531, we have a national team of installers ready to remediate any defects within your building.
With exceptional attention to detail, our team provides ‘right fire time’ solutions to passive fire faults. Experienced in delivering both small and large installation projects, over 90% of our works are in occupied buildings.
Acting as principal contractor or sub-contractor we will work with building users, occupiers and residents to ensure our works are programmed to be safe, offer value for money, and be delivered with flexibility to allow for the minimum amount of disruption – especially in and around vulnerable people.
We work in partnership with our clients, architects, contractors and building inspectors to ensure that we provide appropriate, cost-effective, fully designed and engineered fire stopping systems tailored to each building. We install both vertical and horizontal firestops through floors and walls, and these are primarily used to seal penetrations formed for the passage of services such as drainage, pipes and cables.
Common fire stopping installation works include:
Our systems range from simple joint and gap sealing to more complex movement or expansion joints. We also provide systems for the protection of mechanical and electrical penetrating through walls and floors, with structural and loadbearing options available for service risers and shafts.