Fire stopping in Ascot
Care homes and big houses. Small gaps, quiet work, residents who live there.
Get a pricePicture a night shift in a care home. Two carers, twenty residents, and a corridor of bedroom doors.
If a fire starts in one room, the wall and the door round it are what buy those two carers their time. Anything that lets smoke through the wall takes that time back.
That is the reason to look closely at a care home in Ascot, or at a large house with residents.
What the building has been through
Many care homes started as family houses. Then came an extension, a lift, en-suites cut into bedrooms, a nurse call system and a new alarm panel.
Every one of those jobs put something through a wall. A conduit through a bedroom partition. A waste pipe to a new shower room. A cable above a dropped ceiling, where the partition below does not carry on.
The holes are mostly small. So mastic does a lot of the work in this kind of building, along with collars or wraps on the plastic waste pipes.
Quiet work
We do not hammer, drill or run noisy tools near residents at rest. Where something noisy is unavoidable, we agree a time with you.
Corridors are kept clear. Fire doors are left closed, or put back at once.
We tell your manager which rooms we need, so staff can move residents if they have to. A resident with dementia can find strangers upsetting, and we would rather plan than surprise anyone.
Checks we do
We seal each gap and label it.
We photograph it before a ceiling tile goes back.
At the end we walk the corridor with your manager and show them what we did, so there is somebody on site who can speak to the work.
Larger houses and flats
The same goes for a big house split into flats. Old houses have plenty of hidden routes between floors. Original floors may have been cut for pipes, and the openings round them can be large.
A survey of the building helps if you are unsure. See compartmentation surveys.
What to tell us
How many residents and how many floors.
Whether the building was always a home or is an adaptation.
What the CQC or your fire risk assessor has asked for, if anything.
Getting here
We come from Luton and book the work as a block of days. Our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors do the sealing.
Questions we get asked
Can you work at weekends?
Sometimes. Ask, and we will say.
Do residents need to leave their rooms?
Only for the time we are in them. We plan it with your staff.
Tell us what is going through it and what the wall is made of. We will come back with a price.
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