Fire Compartmentation
Effective compartmentation. Certified fire stopping you can trust.
Peace of mind backed by compliance
Effective fire compartmentation is one of the most important elements of a building's passive fire protection strategy. Designed to contain fire and smoke within designated areas, compartmentation helps protect escape routes, safeguard occupants and reduce damage to property.
At Abbey Fire Stopping, we provide comprehensive fire compartmentation services for commercial, residential and public sector buildings. Whether you require a compartmentation survey, remedial works or support on a new build project, our experienced team delivers practical, compliant solutions tailored to your building.
Thorough Surveys
We carry out detailed surveys to identify breaches, assess compartment integrity and provide clear reports with practical recommendations for remedial works.
Remedial Solutions
Our experienced team restores fire compartments using tested and certified passive fire protection systems, ensuring every repair meets current fire safety standards.
Photo Reports
From photographic reports to installation records and certification, we provide the documentation you need to demonstrate compliance with confidence.
Fire compartmentation remedial works
Once defects have been identified, our experienced installers can restore compartmentation using tested and certified passive fire protection systems.
We regularly carry out remedial works including:
- Sealing service penetrations
- Restoring damaged compartment walls and floors
- Fire batt installations
- Fire collars and pipe wraps
- Fire-resistant sealants
- Linear joint sealing
- Fire stopping around mechanical and electrical services
Compliance and reporting
Maintaining accurate records is just as important as completing the work itself. Following every survey or remedial project, we provide comprehensive documentation to support your fire safety records and demonstrate compliance.
Our reporting can include:
- Digital survey reports
- Photographic records
- Product certification
- Installation documentation
- Remedial schedules
- Ongoing maintenance recommendations
What is fire compartmentation?
Fire compartmentation is the process of dividing a building into fire-resistant compartments using walls, floors, ceilings and fire doors. These compartments are designed to slow the spread of fire and smoke, allowing occupants more time to evacuate safely while reducing damage to the building.
Over time, building alterations, maintenance works and additional services can create unsealed openings that compromise compartmentation. Identifying and restoring these breaches is essential to maintaining the building's fire strategy.
Fire compartmentation surveys
A compartmentation survey provides a detailed assessment of your building's passive fire protection, identifying areas where compartment walls and floors have been breached or no longer provide the required level of fire resistance.
Our experienced surveyors inspect accessible areas throughout the building, assessing fire-rated walls, ceilings, floors, risers and service penetrations before producing a clear, easy-to-understand report.
Our surveys include:
- Detailed visual inspections
- Identification of compartmentation breaches
- Photographic evidence
- Prioritised remedial recommendations
- Digital reports
- Compliance support and technical guidance
STAY PROACTIVE WITH YOUR SAFETY
A fire compartmentation survey includes:
Inspection of the condition of the existing fire compartments
Assessment of the condition and effectiveness of the sealing of wall/soffit interfaces.
Inspection of fire seals applied to service penetrations through fire compartment lines
Assessment of the materials used to seal service penetrations / linear joints, whether appropriate fire rated materials have been used and whether they have been installed in the correct manner
A report of the presence of any damage to fire compartment lines that is likely to reduce their effectiveness
Identification of unprotected structural steelwork within fire compartments which may have an impact on effectiveness
The presence of fire dampers within ducts passing through designated fire compartment lines
Assessment of the materials and methods used to construct any dry lined walls which form part of the fire compartmentation
Assessment of any specific issues relating to the ability to reinstate fire compartmentation