Firetopper

Firetopper is a UK company solving a problem that trips up more installations than most people realise: what happens to a fire-rated ceiling once you cut a hole in it for a speaker. Under Building Regulations Approved Document B, any opening made in a fire-rated ceiling — including a speaker cut-out — has to be made good, restoring the fire protection that installation removed. Firetopper exists to give installers a fast, tested, and fully documented way to meet that requirement.

The company's flagship product, the Firetopper Pro II, is an intumescent fire hood engineered specifically for in-ceiling speakers, independently fire-tested by Warringtonfire to the general principles of BS EN 1363-1:2020. Its universal design fits speakers from 5 to 9 inches without trimming, and an integrated intumescent cable gland makes wiring straightforward — all backed by full test documentation available to trade accounts for project compliance records.

Firetopper sells trade-direct from its UK warehouse, with no distribution layers between the manufacturer and the installer, and next-day dispatch on orders placed before 2pm. It's a specialist, unglamorous corner of the custom install world — but for any installer fitting speakers into a habitable room's ceiling, Firetopper has made compliance genuinely simple.