Fire Stopping & Compartmentation Guides
These fire stopping and compartmentation guides answer the questions property managers, estates teams and Responsible Persons ask most. Each one starts with a direct answer and ends with common questions.
What is a fire stopping survey? A guide for property managers
A plain-English guide for property managers: what a fire stopping survey covers, how it is carried out, what you need to provide and what the report contains.
Read the guideFire stopping vs compartmentation: what's the difference?
Fire stopping and compartmentation explained: how fire-resisting walls and floors divide a building, and how fire stopping seals the gaps passing through them.
Read the guideWho is responsible for fire stopping in a building?
Who is responsible for fire stopping? How the Responsible Person's duties under the Fire Safety Order cover fire-resisting walls, floors and their seals.
Read the guideFire stopping in higher-risk buildings
A guide to fire stopping in higher-risk residential buildings: the Building Safety Act 2022 regime, related duties, and why photographed records really matter.
Read the guidePlanning fire stopping surveys across a property portfolio
How to plan fire stopping surveys across a portfolio: what to gather, how to schedule nationally, and why one survey method makes findings comparable.
Read the guideIs a Compartmentation Survey a Legal Requirement?
No law names a compartmentation survey, but the Responsible Person must keep compartmentation maintained. How a survey provides the evidence they need.
Read the guideHow Often Should Fire Stopping Be Inspected?
No legislation sets a fixed inspection frequency for fire stopping. When to re-check: after works, refurbishment or change of use, and how to plan them.
Read the guideDoes Fire Stopping Need to Be Certified?
What third-party certification of fire stopping installers is, what schemes such as FIRAS cover, and how a certificated installation differs from a survey.
Read the guideFire Stopping vs Cavity Barriers: What's the Difference?
Fire stopping seals penetrations; cavity barriers close concealed spaces such as roof voids. Where each is found, how each fails and how a survey checks both.
Read the guideCommon Fire Stopping Defects Found in Surveys
The fire stopping defects surveys find most often: unsealed penetrations, unsuitable foam, gaps around services, breaches in risers and missing cavity barriers.
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