Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Bunessan, Argyll and Bute
Fire stopping for Bunessan, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
Fire stopping for businesses in Bunessan
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
About our fire stopping in Bunessan
We are commercial sealant applicators, CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, with CSCS-carded applicators on site. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate and we’d rather say that up front. We install the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail, and our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee. If you have head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal and fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover, we can put it right, on small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows, cable penetrations and linear gaps at wall heads alike. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Bunessan first comes to us: we look at the rest while we are there and tell you what we find.
Refurbishments in small hotels, schools and care homes around places like Bunessan can leave gaps around new services. A round of checks after M&E work is good practice, and any gaps found are sealed where fire-rated sealant is specified.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: the preparation, the sealing and the tooling. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Place
- Bunessan (PA67)
- Wider area
- Argyll and Bute
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
What we’re called out for in Bunessan
Mixing products or improvising a detail breaks the link with the test evidence. 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.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
For buildings in and around Bunessan, fire-rated sealant is installed where it is specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
Before you book anyone
- How the existing material will be dealt with
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
- Their public liability cover
- How joint depth will be controlled
When something else is needed
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’d rather tell you before you spend money. It won’t fix:
- Fire doors, dampers or other fire safety equipment
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
If you are not sure, just ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will give you a straight answer.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
After the work
Your facilities or cleaning team can help the joints last. Share these points with them:
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
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.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. When a new service goes through, everyone knows which product and detail to match, and it helps at inspections.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Certain joints really need a specialist: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. Where it goes wrong is preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We schedule the visit to fit the site hours and access windows you give us. On the day, the work area is kept contained and tidy, and we check in with your contact before moving on to each new area. Tell us who will meet us and how to get in at your building near Bunessan. That goes into the plan alongside the quote.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out.
- Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
Before we start on site
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
Quotes
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us.
Related advice
Your questions answered
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Bunessan?
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 you decide the fire-stopping details for buildings in Bunessan?
No. The designer or fire engineer sets the detail and building control accepts it. Our part is installing the specified product to its tested detail, and telling you if the detail calls for something other than sealant.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Requirements differ from site to site, so list what you need, whether RAMS, insurance or CSCS details, and we will confirm with the quote.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No. We cut the old material out and clean the joint back before sealing, because fresh silicone will not bond with aged silicone.
Does weather matter for sealant work?
For external joints, yes. Sealant needs a dry joint and a temperature within the product’s range, so damp, frosty or very cold days can stop external work. Internal work is rarely affected.
Do you work in Bunessan?
Yes. Bunessan is in our area. For a quote, phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Which sealant will you use?
Where there’s a specification, we use the product it names. Otherwise, we recommend a product to suit the joint’s movement, the substrate and the conditions, following the manufacturer’s guidance.
Fire stopping in Bunessan: the local picture
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 what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail.
Older community buildings such as Kilvickeon Church that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification.
Bunessan is in Argyll and Bute. Our applicators travel to Bunessan for work on service penetrations. Bunessan is one of 124 places we cover in Argyll and Bute for service penetrations.
If you need fire stopping in PA67, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Among the streets we cover are Millbrae and Ardmeanach View, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Just outside Bunessan, we also work in Ardtun (1 mile north-east), Fionnphort (5 miles west), Baile Mòr (6 miles west), Ballygown (14 miles north) and Upper Kilchattan (16 miles south). Where a site is remote or on an island, travel and materials need planning ahead.
What’s near Bunessan
Well-known places in the area include Ross Of Mull Historical Centre (under half a mile south-west). Open spaces near Bunessan include Cruachan Mìn and Loch Assapol.
Leave it or put it right?
It is cheaper to seal service penetrations as each services package finishes than to come back for them later. While the area is still open, every opening is easy to see and reach and each detail can be checked as we go. Around smaller places like Bunessan, halls, stores and seasonal buildings may not be checked often, giving water time to get in. Resealing early avoids that.
Cost follows what’s involved: stripping out, preparation, sealing, access and phasing. Call for a quote.
Why appoint us
- CHAS accredited
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
- Fully insured
- Specification-led, product-correct work
Take a look at our cost guide or our accreditations.