An Luirg fire stopping
Fire stopping in An Luirg, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
Fire stopping near An Luirg
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
How we handle fire stopping in An Luirg
A lot of fire-stopping work comes after M&E installation, a refit or a tenant fit-out. Each new cable, pipe or data route cut through a fire-resisting wall leaves an opening behind. Those on your schedule are closed with the specified product. We work on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and pipe penetrations, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are openings left by services added after handover and expanding foam used as fire stopping. Most enquiries from An Luirg start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
Travel to smaller places like An Luirg is planned so every penetration is sealed on one trip. Send the specification and photos of the openings, with sizes if you have them.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Location
- An Luirg (IV27)
- Wider area
- Highland
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Questions about An Luirg
Is An Luirg off your patch?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. Every Scottish council area is within our area. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Will you take on work at estates like Lairg Industrial Estate, close to An Luirg?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around An Luirg, Lairg Industrial Estate among them, are all within reach. To start, just ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over with the unit, the joints involved and your access times.
Is your workmanship covered by a guarantee?
Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months.
Can you seal any opening with fire-rated sealant?
No. Each fire-rated sealant is tested for particular services, gap sizes and substrates. If an opening falls outside, it needs another solution, as set out by the designer.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No, never. Sealing over old material is one of the classic causes of early joint failure, so everything comes out first.
How much does the work cost?
There isn’t a price list, as every site differs. Send photographs or drawings and we will price it at a fixed figure.
How long does a job like this take?
It depends on the scope, though a typical visit normally takes longer where risers, ceiling voids or occupied floors have to be worked through in sequence. For bigger or phased jobs, we will set out a timescale with the quote.
Why deal with it now?
The longer openings stay, the more there tend to be: each new service adds to the list. A schedule that is dealt with regularly stays manageable, rather than turning into a full building survey and reseal. Buildings that aren’t in daily use, such as halls and seasonal premises, may let water in unnoticed, giving water time to get in. Resealing early avoids that.
The work involved drives the cost: removing old material, preparing the joints, the product, the access and how the work is phased. Call for a fixed quote.
Why appoint us
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- Products installed to the manufacturer’s instructions
- Joints cleaned back to sound surfaces
- One number for every site we cover
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or how we’re accredited.
Owners, agents and contractors
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
Building owners and managing agents use us on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around An Luirg. One quote can cover more than one site, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
Fire-rated sealing for An Luirg 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. We install fire-rated sealant to that tested detail where it is specified.
For a hotel such as Lairg Highland Hotel (less than half a mile south-west of An Luirg), penetration seals are worth checking after any refit or services upgrade. Industrial units on estates such as Lairg Industrial Estate, less than half a mile west of An Luirg, often separate offices from warehouse space with fire-resisting walls, and new services through them need the specified seal.
An Luirg (Gaelic: Lairg) is about 36 miles north-west of Nairn, in Highland. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in An Luirg use us for work on service penetrations. An Luirg is one of 256 places in Highland on our list.
Postcode districts covered here: IV27 for service penetrations. If your site is on Main Street, Rathad Cnoc na H-Eaglais and Milnclarin Way or close by, send details and we will quote for service penetrations. Just outside An Luirg, we also work in Innis nan Lìon (8 miles west), Bonar Bridge (9 miles south), Lower Gledfield (10 miles south), Ardgay (10 miles south) and Spinningdale (12 miles south-east). Island and remote sites need extra planning, with travel, ferry crossings where needed and weather to allow for, so mention the location when you call the office on 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Local landmarks in An Luirg
An Luirg’s nearest station is Lairg station, roughly 1.6 miles south. The countryside around An Luirg includes Loch Dola and The Ord.
What we can’t put right
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
Not sure which it is? You can phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we’ll tell you honestly.
Where we work in An Luirg
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Site rules come first: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. Once we’re cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you. For a building near An Luirg, directions, keys and a contact on the day are worth sorting early. That goes into the plan alongside the quote.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
Getting the site ready
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Let us know about inductions and permits
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
Ask for a quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price the work to it. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.
Advice
Should maintenance staff do it?
Certain joints really need a specialist: for example fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
Surface by surface
Masonry and concrete
Openings through concrete vary from tidy cores to rough break-outs. Each gap is measured where it is widest so we know it sits within the tested range, and any that don’t are flagged.
Cables and cable bundles
New data and power cables are the most common breach we see. We reseal around them to the specified detail, and we tell you if the bundle exceeds what sealant covers.