Scotland

Fire Stopping in Scottish Borders

We cover 91 towns and villages across the Scottish Borders for fire stopping, with failed joints always cut out and a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship.

Book fire stopping in Scottish Borders

Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.

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Fire stopping in every part of the Scottish Borders

Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps. Pick your town below to see the details for your area, and call or email us for a quote.

Largest places

Our fire stopping service in the Scottish Borders

Most of our fire stopping work happens after the building is up. Each new cable, pipe or data route cut through a fire-resisting wall leaves an opening behind, often unnoticed. Those on your schedule are closed with the specified product. Most enquiries involve open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls and non-fire-rated filler around services, on linear gaps at wall heads, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and pipe penetrations.

Before we leave any area, the masking comes off, the area is cleaned and every joint is checked. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out.

We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send.
On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
Mineral wool or other backing goes in wherever the detail asks.
Fire-rated or intumescent sealant is gunned in to the specified depth, then tooled.
Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.

What you’ll pay

No two sites price the same: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.

Why clients in the Scottish Borders choose us

Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
One contact handling all your sites
Specification-led, product-correct work
Public liability insurance in place

Get a fixed quote

Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.

What’s near Galashiels

Recent enquiries here include premises near Galashiels, Public House and Galashiels Academy. There’s a railway station in Galashiels itself: Galashiels station. Well-known places in the area include Borders General Hospital (2.7 miles south-east) and Castle Holydean (4.4 miles south-east). Open spaces near Galashiels include Eildon Mid Hill.

Fire-resisting walls and floors across the Scottish Borders

Hospitals, schools, care homes, offices and blocks across the Scottish Borders all rely on fire-resisting walls and floors. Where fire-rated sealant is the specified product for a service penetration or linear gap, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail.

Our area covers every Scottish council area, the Scottish Borders included. Travel is planned so the work is finished in as few trips as we can. Parts of the Scottish Borders lie on or near the coast, where wind-driven rain and, closer to the shore, salt air are harder on external joints. We take that exposure into account when choosing the product.

Galashiels: Where a unit on an estate such as Netherdale Industrial Estate, 0.8 miles to the south-east of Galashiels, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail. At a healthcare site like Borders General Hospital, which lies south-east of Galashiels, new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal.

Maintenance after handover

After handover, these steps help:

Treat an open penetration as a priority repair
Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
Have penetrations checked while they can still be seen
Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package

During planned inspections, look at seals in risers, cupboards and voids. Watch for cracked sealant, new services with no seal and openings that have grown and get them dealt with.

Make reporting new openings part of every permit to work in service areas. Small habits like this stop openings building up.

Why deal with it now?

Inspections and handover checks often pick up fire stopping. Late discoveries can delay handover while openings are reopened and resealed.

Comparing quotes

Their approach to joint depth and backing
Their pre-qualification and accreditations
What site paperwork they can supply
Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?

Honest limits

Some faults sit outside our scope, and we say so rather than covering them up:

Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals

Surface by surface

Linear joints

Head-of-wall gaps, slab edges and wall junctions are linear joints. Their tested detail, under BS EN 1366-4, sets the width, depth, backing and movement allowed and the installation has to fit inside those limits.

Plastic pipes

Plastic pipes soften and collapse in a fire. Small sizes are sometimes covered by an intumescent sealant detail, but many need a collar or wrap. We check the pipe material and diameter against the detail before we start.

When to bring in a specialist

Paperwork matters too. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and our CSCS-carded applicators are used to working under those rules.

Some joints are best left to specialists: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. Getting these wrong typically costs more in the end than doing them right.

Your questions answered

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, specified by your designer.

Do you offer coloured sealant?

That depends on the product specified. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so we’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.

Do you take on small jobs?

Whatever the size, the process is the same: details, then a fixed price, then sealing, then a 12-month guarantee.

Do you design or specify fire stopping?

No, that isn’t our role. With the designer’s details in hand, we can price the sealant elements.

What does an EI 60 rating mean?

Penetration seals are tested to BS EN 1366-3 and linear joint seals to BS EN 1366-4. Results are classified under BS EN 13501-2, where E is integrity, I is insulation and the number is minutes, as in EI 60. The rating applies to the product as tested.

Is it fine to apply new sealant on top of old?

No. We cut the old material out and clean the joint back before sealing, because fresh silicone will not bond with aged silicone.

How long do sealant joints last?

There’s no fixed lifespan: movement, exposure, cleaning, traffic and the product all play a part. Sealant joints are maintenance items, so inspect them regularly.