Fire Stopping
Lift shaft fire stopping and compartmentation inspections, carried out by our own engineers alongside our fire lift installations.
Fire compartmentation
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Fire sleeves
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Fire sealants
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Intumescent strips
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Inspection reports
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Fire Safety Order
Sealing the gaps fire and smoke travel through.
Fire stopping is a form of passive fire protection. It seals openings in a building to stop fire, smoke and heat moving from one area to the next, creating fire-resistant compartments that help contain a fire where it starts.
Modern buildings carry a lot of pipework, ducting and cabling, and every point where these pass through a wall or floor is a potential weak spot. Correctly installed fire stopping keeps smoke and flames out of the rest of the building for longer, giving people more time to get out safely.
- Inspections by our level 3 lift engineers
- No need for your maintenance contractor to attend
- Full fire compartmentation report, digital and hard copy
- Points of concern reported to the duty holder
The right product for each opening.
Methods and materials depend on the building’s regulations and environment.
Fitted where pipes and cables pass between compartments. In a fire the sleeve expands to close the gap, sealing it completely around plastic pipes.
Fire-rated sealants expand with heat to close gaps around doors, frames and windows, often alongside intumescent strips at the base of the door.
Dividing the building into smaller compartments, with floors, walls, doors and hatches as fire resistant as the structure itself.
Arranged around your building, not ours.
We need to take the lift out of service to inspect it, so we book the visit at a time that suits you. Afterwards you get a detailed fire compartmentation report on the insulation and passive fire protection around the lift, in digital and hard copy.
To stay in line with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order and the Fire Safety Act 2021, we recommend keeping your fire safety paperwork in a premises information box that fire crews can reach.
The wrong product is as bad as none.
Only use listed fire-stopping products tested to the correct standards, and use each material for the job it is designed for. Building regulations can also require fire stops at a set depth, which is easy to miss without experience.
Our in-house team can carry out any remedial work the report identifies.
Worried about fire stopping?
We will inspect it.
Book a free survey and we’ll tell you what needs sealing.