Fire stopping in Egham
Shared houses and student blocks, where the walls between bedrooms count.
Get a priceRoyal Holloway, University of London, is on the edge of Egham, so shared student housing is part of the picture here.
Halls and shared houses are sleeping accommodation. People are there at night, the building is full, and they often do not know the layout.
The walls that matter
The stair. It is the escape route. Its walls have to stay intact, and nothing should pass through them without a seal.
The bedroom doors and the walls round them. Pipes and cables near a bedroom door frame are a common gap.
The kitchen. Extract and gas pipes run through the walls and ceiling.
The loft. A shared house often has a loft conversion with a staircase going up, and the roof space round it is open.
HMOs
An HMO is a house in multiple occupation. A council licence can set conditions about fire safety, and your fire risk assessment may have listed work to do. Send both with your enquiry.
What we do
We seal pipe gaps, fit collars to plastic waste pipes through floors and close cavity gaps above ceilings. A job on a single house is small, so we like to group several houses where we can.
Who regulates it
Egham is in Surrey. The local authority is Runnymede Borough Council and the fire authority is Surrey Fire and Rescue Service.
Questions we get asked
Do tenants need to be out?
Not usually. We agree access, and most work is in voids and risers.
Can you do several houses together?
Yes, and it saves travel. Send us the addresses.
Send it over with the postcode. We will tell you what the work involves and roughly what it costs.
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