Fire Stopping
The silent guard for your building
You probably don’t know whether the building you’re in has been fire stopped – there won’t be any obvious indications to the untrained eye. That is, until a fire breaks out – and spreads randomly and remotely from room to room.
Fire stopping makes fire containment much more predictable and reliable. Simply put, it saves lives.
That’s why we call fire stopping The Silent Guard.
What It Is and What It Does
Also known as fire proofing or passive fire protection, fire stopping aims to limit a fire to the room it originates in, by ensuring all those small and seemingly insignificant gaps around wiring, pipes or joints in the walls, floors and ceilings are plugged up.
If left open, flames, gases and smoke can pass through these small gaps, causing the fire to spread much more rapidly through a building.
Fire stopping gives a building’s occupants more chance to evacuate safely, it gives the fire brigade more time to extinguish a fire, and it cuts the costs of rebuilding after a fire considerably.
These videos explain more about fire stopping and passive fire protection:
Expert Fire Solutions has a full range of fire stopping products to protect your building and, of course, we are fully accredited to Exova BM Trada.
What Our Client Say
Hear from our happy customers below.
Tom Billingham,
Property and Facilities Manager, Durham Cathedral“The team at Expert Fire Solutions have never failed to perform. They took to managing the fire extinguisher provision, in this very complex site, very well indeed. They have provided a great service at good value for money, saving us over 30% across the board for both fire fighting equipment supply and maintenance, as well as fire alarm maintenance and upgrades. They are friendly and a pleasure to work with. I cannot recommend them enough."
Duncan Murray,
Stevenswood Ltd,“Expert Fire has produced many fire risk assessments on a variety of our properties and I have always found their reports to be robust and fit for purpose. Alan is always very informative and thorough. Incredibly helpful and knowledgeable company”
Neil Milburn,
Quantity Surveyor, Starkold Building Services“Good quality, efficient, honest fire servicing company we’ve used for years with no issues. Working alongside us in our fast paced construction site logistics sector, Expert Fire Solutions are an asset to our supply chain”
David Myers,
Project Manager, Aim To Recycle (Gateshead)"Expert Fire Solutions are intentionally our one stop shop for everything to do with fire safety advice, fire prevention systems, fire system servicing, and fire safety advice for future strategic site development plans. Their ISO9001 accreditation and professionalism throughout ensures high levels of customer service are delivered from all levels of their organisation.”
Jane Hunt,
Allen Wilson GroupAlan made this serious subject interesting and fun. I really enjoyed the practical side of the course, with the ‘hands on’ live fire practice. Excellent course, very well delivered - 10/10."
Amy Lines,
Property Manager, Residential Management Group“I have used Expert Fire Solutions over the last two years because of their professionalism and thorough approach to their work. Alan and Brian have helped in a number of emergency and non-emergency situations with fire maintenance and electrical work across a number of large housing developments and apartment blocks in the North East. I definitely wouldn’t hesitate in recommending them!”
Dan Fillingham,
Contracts Manager, Allen Wilson Group, 2016“Great company and very friendly, helpful service from employees all round, from office to site-based operatives. Their knowledge on fire alarms, extinguishers and fire stopping is excellent and they take away the hassle of having to have the knowledge yourself. Another bonus is they will work anywhere in the country."
Sue Cook,
TJD Properties Ltd"We find EFS very professional and trustworthy which is of vital importance to us. The response from office staff and engineers is always prompt and works are carried out with a high level of care and due diligence. We would not hesitate to recommend this company for your fire protection requirements.”