Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Cadder, Glasgow
Looking for fire stopping in Cadder? It’s simple: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed.
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
Fire stopping across Cadder
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. 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. City jobs in Cadder typically need parking and loading planned. Shared closes, stairs and the property factor may need to be part of the plan.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- We gun the sealant in to the specified depth around each service and tool it.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
What we need from you
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
- Arrange parking or a loading space
Ask for a quote
The quickest route to a quote is a few photos and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings if you’d rather talk the job through.
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Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Cadder
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. What we offer is careful installation of the specified sealant to its tested detail, with a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. Most enquiries involve fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated and unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab, on linear gaps at wall heads, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and service gaps in risers. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Cadder tend to want the same three things: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
Under Scotland’s building standards, a service penetration should keep at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor it passes through. In Cadder, penetrations get the fire-rated sealant the specification asks for, built to its tested arrangement.
Our 12-month guarantee is about workmanship, not wear and tear. Sealant wears with time, and movement, weather, cleaning and use decide how fast, so we spell out the cover before we begin.
- Where
- Cadder (G20, G23, G22)
- Region
- Glasgow
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
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.
As a CHAS accredited contractor and Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. Our insurance certificate can be sent along with the quote.
Nearby places to Cadder
What else we do in Cadder
Your questions answered
Do you work on fire-rated sealing in hotels in Cadder?
Yes, where fire-rated sealant is the specified product. Work is done room by room so the hotel keeps trading; design and sign-off stay with the designer and building control.
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital?
Yes, hospitals are one of the sectors we cover. We follow the site’s permits, sign-in and infection-control procedures in every area.
How many days will you need on site?
The duration is planned around your programme and the access we are given. We will give you an estimate of time on site when we quote.
What will the job cost?
That depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a fixed quote.
Can staff carry on working while you’re here?
In most cases, yes. Phased work can be planned so areas stay in use, with each area protected and signed.
Are you insured?
Yes. Our insurance certificate can be sent alongside the quote.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, with one point of contact.
Different surfaces, different methods
Metal pipes
Heat travels along metal pipework. If the detail needs something beyond sealant, we tell you.
Cables and cable bundles
Single cables and small bundles are often within a fire-rated sealant’s tested detail. The detail limits bundle size and the gaps between and around cables, so we check before sealing.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are easy to get wrong without experience.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. The usual problems come from preparation: sealing over old material, sealing onto damp or dusty surfaces, or a product that can’t take the movement.
Where services cross fire walls in Cadder
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. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail. Cadder has plenty of hotels close by, all within 2 miles. Bedroom-to-corridor walls in hotels are normally fire-resisting, so new cabling or pipework through them has to be sealed to the tested detail.
Where a unit on an estate such as Balmore Industrial Estate, 0.6 miles to the east of Cadder, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail. For an estates team at a campus like University of Glasgow Garscube Campus, which lies west of Cadder, summer M&E works are usually followed by a round of penetration sealing.
Cadder is about 1 mile north of North Kelvinside, in Glasgow. Looking for fire stopping in Cadder? We can help, as we do across Glasgow. 171 places across Glasgow fall within our area, including Cadder.
Business premises anywhere in G20, G23 and G22 are within our area for service penetrations. If your site is on Cadder Road, Tresta Road and Hillend Road or close by, send details and we’ll quote for service penetrations. Being close to the A879, Cadder is easy to get to with materials and equipment. If your building is just outside Cadder, we cover Gilshochill (1 mile south-west), Lambhill (1 mile south-east), High Ruchill (1 mile south), Maryhill (1 mile west) and Ruchill (1 mile south). Nearby towns on our patch include Glasgow (3 miles south), Calton (4 miles south-east), Langside (5 miles south), Yoker (4 miles west), Mount Florida (5 miles south) and Hillpark (6 miles south).
What’s near Cadder
In Cadder, that means premises near Glasgow University Library and Dawsholm Park, among other places. Cadder has its own railway station: Gilshochill station. Other landmarks nearby include Chinatown (2.1 miles south) and Ruchill Hospital (0.9 miles south-east). Not far away are Bardowie Loch and Castle Hill.
What we can’t put right
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
Not sure which it is? You can phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we’ll tell you honestly.
Surfaces we seal
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
What we’re called out for in Cadder
Some service penetrations were never sealed at all. They come to light during inspections, refits or when another trade lifts a tile.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
Tenant changes at centres like West End Retail Park, 2.3 miles south-west of Cadder, often mean new services through walls between units.
Comparing quotes
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- How long is the guarantee, and what does it include?
- How joint depth will be controlled
- How they’ll work around occupants