Supporting our customers with Passive Fire Inspection Surveys

What to expect from a fire stopping compartmentation survey?

Our teams will visually inspect all areas of the identified compartment lines within your building to assess their likely performance in the event of a fire. Defects in compartmentation lines can take numerous forms and require expert indentification.

Common defects include: simple penetrations, such as pipework entering or exiting a compartment with gaps, or inappropriate firestopping, allowing smoke or fire to potentially pass from one compartment to another. Other defects include: cabling, voids, ducts or linear gaps where compartment lines do not fully encapsulate the compartment. These defects are either latent, from the original build, or imposed from subsequent works (such as M&E events). Both are reiterating the need for regular inspection.

What type of Compartmentation Survey do I require?

There are a number of differing compartmentation surveys available.

Dependent upon the type and use of your building, your fire strategy, and potentially the recommendations of an existing fire risk assessment, you may choose different levels of compartmentation survey. All inspections can cover common areas and dwellings dependent upon scope.

Checkmate Fire offer four distinct survey types

Indicative

Checkmate Fire will undertake all elements of the "standard" compartmentation survey, but only to selected floors or areas of a building. This will give you the same detail of electronic reporting within your chosen areas, from which our specialists will extrapolate results to enable indicative results to be presented for review.

Standard

Our standard survey is classed as "invasive". This means we will review all areas of the building, along with inspecting some harder to reach areas, such as roof voids, above suspended ceilings, and through inspection hatches in solid ceilings.

Enhanced

This option provides all the benefits of the "standard" survey, but includes additional indicative destructive works, including a percentage of identified areas for further investigation. In most cases, this will include 10% of soil vent pipes and 5% of behind architraves. Our teams will make good on all works, with follow-up attention by your chosen decorator.

Destructive

All elements of the "non-intrusive" survey, together with a pre-defined scope of intrusive works that are defined as a greater requirement than the enhanced survey option. The Fire Compartmentation Inspection Report Electronically recording all deficiencies. along with photographic evidence, the report will highlight the following:

A unique identifying number for each defect
Location
Room type
Required fire rating
Penetrating service type
Seal type required
Date and surveyor details

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If you would like more information on how our team of experienced fire safety experts can help support you throughout these processes, please contact us via: enquiries@checkmatefire.com or 0330 124 7650 or complete the form below.

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