Fire Stopping in Àird
Fire stopping in Àird, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Fire stopping across Àird
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Why act early in Àird
Inspections and handover checks often pick up fire stopping. Finding unsealed or improvised openings late can hold up a programme, so earlier action pays back. For buildings near Àird, dealing with all the failing joints at once saves return trips. Send photos and we’ll quote for everything together.
There’s no price list, because the scope varies so much from one building to the next. For a fixed figure, call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
What you get with us
- A Constructionline member, so easy to vet
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- CSCS-carded applicators
- CHAS accredited contractor
Take a look at our cost guide and our accreditations.
About our fire stopping in Àird
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. The enquiries we see most involve builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls and fire sealant pulled out of the opening, on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Àird first comes to us: we look at the rest while we’re there and tell you what we find.
For a building near Àird, we plan fire-rated sealing so it’s finished in one visit where possible. Photos of the gaps, the services and the wall or floor type help us bring the right products.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months, in Àird as everywhere else we work. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Where
- Àird (IV22)
- Region
- Highland
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Diagnose, treat, sign off
In a busy building, we agree a sequence with your contact so the disruption stays in one area at once. Each section is protected, cleaned back and sealed, then reopened once the sealant allows before we move to the next. Jobs near Àird are often grouped with others in the same area. Tell us how flexible your dates are.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- We gun the sealant in to the specified depth around each service and tool it.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
Getting the site ready
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
Request a quote
Send us photographs, drawings or a joint schedule are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a site visit.
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Fire-rated sealing for Àird buildings
Scotland has its own building standards: the non-domestic Technical Handbook (clause 2.1.14) says service penetrations should be fire stopped to at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor, using products tested for the way they’re used. Where fire-rated sealant is specified, that’s what we install, to the tested detail.
Around Àird, we install fire-rated and intumescent sealant to the product’s tested detail wherever it is the specified product.
Àird is in Highland. If you’re looking for fire stopping in Àird, we can help, as we do across Highland. Our Highland coverage takes in 256 places, large and small.
Business premises anywhere in IV22 are within our area. If your site is on Mackenzie Square and Pier Road or close by, send details and we’ll quote for service penetrations. Sites close to Àird are covered too, including Aultbea (1 mile east), Laide (3 miles north-east), Inverasdale (3 miles south-west), Poolewe (5 miles south) and Gairloch (8 miles south-west). Where a site is remote or on an island, travel and materials need planning ahead, so the full address helps from the start.
Local landmarks in Àird
Nearby you will also find Arctic Convoy Museum (0.7 miles east). Not far away are Loch a' Bhaid-luachraich.
Other services in Àird
FAQs: Àird
Can you produce the fire-stopping design for a job in Àird?
No, that sits with the designer, fire engineer or building control. Our part is installing the specified product to its tested detail, and telling you if the detail calls for something other than sealant.
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Àird?
Under Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook (clause 2.1.14), service penetrations should keep at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance duration, using products tested for their end use. Design sits with the designer and the verifier; installation to the tested detail is our part.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. We use CSCS-carded applicators, which many sites require.
How long does a job like this take?
That varies with the scale of the job, though a typical visit usually takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building. For bigger or phased jobs, we’ll set out a timescale with the quote.
Do you hold CHAS accreditation?
Yes. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months on every job.
What do you charge?
That depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a fixed quote and we’ll price it properly.
When to call us in Àird
Damage plays a part too. Seals get knocked during maintenance, cut back to add a cable or pulled out when services are swapped, and the repair is often skipped.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
Hotels like Aultbea Hotel, less than half a mile east of Àird, are refurbished in phases, and each phase can open up compartment walls.
Before you book anyone
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- The named product and why it was chosen
- Who will actually carry out the work
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
Honest limits
Before quoting, we check that sealant is the right answer. It won’t put right:
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
If in doubt, phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll say what we think before you book.
What we seal
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
Maintenance after handover
Regular inspection catches problems early. Specifically:
- Ask which product is in place before decorating
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
Don’t patch a fire-rated seal with anything outside its tested detail. A repair should use the original product, installed the same way, or a new specification from the designer.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. It tells the next contractor exactly what to reinstate, and it helps at inspections.
Building owners, agents and FMs in Àird
Building owners and managing agents use us on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios. Several sites can go on one quote, which keeps the paperwork simple.
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. Programme, specification and site rules come first, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.