Crockers Building, Epsom
Fire Damage Restoration

When fire strips a building’s structural steel of its passive protection, the scale of the job rarely matches how it first looks from the ground. At the Crockers Building in Epsom, the fire had left the steel members without a compliant intumescent system in place, and the fix required treating every affected member as part of one coordinated reinstatement rather than a series of isolated repairs.

BlastOff applied intumescent coatings across all the steel members to the thickness specified for the restoration, working through the building member by member so nothing was assumed to be covered simply because a neighbouring section had been completed. The coating on each member was measured and recorded as the work progressed, building a documented account of the fire protection reinstated across the frame rather than relying on a single inspection at the end.

That member by member discipline is the detail worth noting for building owners and facilities managers facing a similar restoration after fire, water or general coating failure has taken out a passive fire system. It is easy to underestimate how much variation exists between individual steel sections in the same building, particularly around connections, penetrations and areas that were harder to reach during the original fire event. Treating the reinstatement as a full accounting exercise, rather than a general recoat, is what gives a project like this a result that can actually be verified against the building’s fire design.

The completed work left the Crockers Building’s steel frame with compliant intumescent protection and a documented, measured record covering every treated member. Owners scoping comparable restoration work should expect this same level of member by member tracking as standard, not as an added extra. BlastOff delivers this kind of intumescent fire-proofing as part of wider fire damage reinstatement projects, working from the surface preparation stage through to the final coated finish.