Fire stopping in Windsor
Hotels, guest houses and the buildings with many rooms on one corridor.
Get a priceTake a hotel and count the holes.
Every bedroom has a bathroom, and every bathroom has a waste pipe, an extract duct and a cable or two. Add the corridor, the riser and the linen cupboard, and one floor can have a few hundred places where something goes through a wall.
That is why places with lots of bedrooms are the ones we think about first. If you run a hotel or guest house in Windsor, this page is for you.
Where the gaps turn up
Behind the bathroom, in the back of the cupboard where the pipes go up.
Above the corridor ceiling, where cables for the alarm, wifi and lighting run along the line of the bedroom walls.
At the riser. Each floor has an opening for the pipes and cables going up. If it was sealed once and then somebody added a cable, there may be a hole in the seal.
Round extract ducts from bathrooms and kitchens, where the lagging has been cut back.
Why sleeping buildings matter
Guests are asleep and do not know the building. A fire that spreads through a hole in the wall has a long way to go before anyone smells it.
The walls between bedrooms and the corridor are there to hold a fire for long enough to get everyone out. A hole in one of them undoes that.
Working around guests
Doing it room by room is the way. We agree which rooms are empty on which days, and we seal those.
Dust and noise stay inside the room we are in. The corridor is kept clear, and the crew uses the service route where there is one.
If your busy weeks are fixed, give us the dates and we will plan around them.
What we need
A count of bedrooms and floors.
A photo of one bathroom pipe run and one riser.
Whether the building is old. Hotel conversions from houses are often quite different from purpose-built ones inside the walls.
Who sorts the permissions
Windsor is in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, the same council as Maidenhead. Fire safety in Berkshire is enforced by Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. If you have had a letter from either, send it to us with your enquiry.
Our contractors are BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated. We organise the work from Luton and bring the crew for the day.
Questions we get asked
Can you work while guests are staying?
Yes, in rooms and areas that are empty. We agree them beforehand.
Do I need to close the hotel?
Normally no. It depends on how many rooms are affected.
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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