Fire stopping and compartmentation for Reading buildings
Reading's office market and new apartment schemes near the station keep demand high for commercial fire alarm servicing and residential building safety support.
Compartmentation is what stops a fire in one flat or room from becoming a fire in the whole building. It depends on walls, floors and ceilings that keep their fire resistance where pipes, cables and ducts pass through them. Every time a contractor drills a hole and does not seal it properly, the building gets a little less safe.
A compartmentation survey goes into risers, ceiling voids, loft spaces and service cupboards to find and photograph breaches. Each one is located on a plan, described, and given a priority. Remedial fire stopping is then carried out using tested products installed to the manufacturer's details, and each seal is photographed and labelled.
The rules that apply in Reading
Occupied buildings in England at least 18 metres or seven storeys high with two or more residential units are higher-risk buildings. They must be registered with the Building Safety Regulator, and the Principal Accountable Person must prepare a safety case report that can be called in at any time.
What is included
- Intrusive compartmentation survey with photos and plans
- Breach register ranked by priority
- Fire stopping with tested and certified products
- Before and after photographs for every seal
- Penetration labelling and seal register
- Fire damper and cavity barrier checks
Buildings we work on in Reading
- Blocks of flats
- HMO conversions
- Hotels
- Care homes
- Offices
- Student accommodation
Areas we cover from Reading
From Reading we also cover Bracknell (10 miles), Basingstoke (14 miles), Newbury (15 miles), High Wycombe (16 miles) and Slough (17 miles). Elsewhere in Berkshire we work in Slough, Bracknell and Newbury. If your building is not in a listed town, we still cover it: every enquiry for fire stopping and compartmentation in South East England is handled the same way.