Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Bonar Bridge, Highland
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Bonar Bridge and across Highland. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
Fire stopping for Bonar Bridge sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Commercial clients in Bonar Bridge
As a CHAS accredited contractor and Constructionline member, we make supplier vetting simple. We’re fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
Fire stopping in Bonar Bridge, done properly
Sealant is the specified answer for plenty of openings, such as metal pipes, cables and some small ducts where the detail covers them. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. If the detail calls for something other than sealant, we say so rather than force sealant into it. The enquiries we see most involve fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover and builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls, across pipe penetrations, cable penetrations and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors. Whoever orders the work in Bonar Bridge, the brief is usually the same: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
Travel to smaller places like Bonar Bridge is planned so every penetration is sealed on one trip. Photos of the gaps, the services and the wall or floor type help us bring the right products.
Every job ends the same way: guaranteed. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Place
- Bonar Bridge (IV24)
- Wider area
- Highland
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Your questions answered
Is a smaller place like Bonar Bridge outside your area?
Not at all. Bonar Bridge is within our area. Every Scottish council area is within our area. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Which Scottish guidance covers penetration seals in Bonar Bridge?
The non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14, expects a penetration to keep at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance period, with proprietary products tested for the use they’re put to. Design sits with the designer and the verifier; installation to the tested detail is our part.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, with one point of contact.
Is the work guaranteed?
Yes, for 12 months. If a joint fails because of how we installed it, we come back and put it right.
Does the weather affect the work?
For external joints, yes. The joint has to be dry and within the product’s temperature range, so frost, rain or cold mornings can delay outside work. Inside work is seldom held up.
How do you choose the sealant?
If the job is specified, we follow the specification. Otherwise, we recommend a product to suit the joint’s movement, the substrate and the conditions, following the manufacturer’s guidance.
What if there’s asbestos in the old mastic?
Some older mastics, especially in pre-2000 buildings, can contain asbestos. Before we disturb old sealant in an older building, we ask to see the asbestos register or survey, and if asbestos is suspected, work stops until it’s tested. Removing asbestos is a job for asbestos specialists, not us.
Also near Bonar Bridge
Other services in Bonar Bridge
What the job involves on each surface
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.
Risers and ceiling voids
Voids hide a lot of unsealed openings. We follow your schedule area by area.
When something else is needed
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It isn’t the answer for:
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
Not sure which it is? You can call the office on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Looking after the joints
Problems stay small when the joints are checked regularly. Specifically:
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Flag new cables with no seal around them
After every round of M&E works, check that the openings created have been sealed. A short check at the end of each job saves a long hunt later.
Write fire stopping into the scope of any work crossing a compartment wall or floor. Then the seal goes in while the area is open.
Penetration seals near Bonar Bridge
In Scotland, clause 2.1.14 of the non-domestic Technical Handbook expects service penetrations to keep at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor, with proprietary products, intumescent ones included, tested for their end use. Where fire-rated sealant is specified, that’s what we install, to the tested detail.
Hospital estates such as Migdale Hospital, less than half a mile south-east of Bonar Bridge, are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail.
Bonar Bridge is about 28 miles north-west of Nairn, in Highland. Bonar Bridge sits inside our coverage and the rest of Highland, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. We work across 256 places in Highland, large and small.
If you need fire stopping in IV24, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. If your site is on Migdale Road, Gilmour Crescent and Swordale Crescent or close by, we can quote for service penetrations. Close to Bonar Bridge, our area also takes in Ardgay (1 mile south-west), Lower Gledfield (1 mile south-west), Spinningdale (4 miles east), Whiteface (6 miles east) and Edderton (7 miles south-east). A short drive away, we cover Tain (12 miles south-east), Alness (14 miles south), Dornoch (12 miles east), Invergordon (15 miles south-east) and Golspie (15 miles east). For island and remote sites, we plan travel and materials carefully, so the full address helps from the start.
Around Bonar Bridge
Bonar Bridge’s nearest station is Ardgay station, about 1 mile south-west. Other landmarks nearby include Migdale Hospital (under half a mile south-east). Green spaces nearby include Dùn Creich and Loch Migdale.
Common problems we fix in Bonar Bridge
When a seal departs from its tested detail, the evidence no longer covers it. Gaps beyond the tested size, shallow sealant, no backing where it was needed, or products from different systems mixed together are what we find most often.
Common reasons buildings call us in:
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
- Hidden openings found during inspections
Older community buildings such as Creich Church of Scotland Parish Church that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification.
What to look for in a quote
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- How the existing material will be dealt with
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
From enquiry to sign-off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Any old material is cut back to clean, sound faces, primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. Where we can, we combine work around Bonar Bridge with other jobs nearby, to make the most of each trip. 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.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
What we need from you
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
Request a quote
Every quote starts with the facts: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Send what you have, and we’ll arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.