Camperdown fire stopping
Fire stopping for Camperdown, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
Fire stopping near Camperdown
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Should maintenance staff do it?
Redoing a failed joint usually costs more than getting it right at the outset, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. For that reason, many FMs and contractors use a sealant specialist from the outset.
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but anything bigger is another matter: a specialist brings efficiency, a consistent finish and a 12-month guarantee.
About our fire stopping in Camperdown
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Larger openings and some plastic pipes call for collars, wraps, batts or boards instead. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. The enquiries we see most involve openings left by services added after handover and seals that don’t match their tested detail, on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and linear gaps at wall heads. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Camperdown, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Refurbishments in small hotels, schools and care homes around places like Camperdown can leave gaps around new services. We fit the specified fire-rated sealant as its published detail shows and raise it if another product is needed.
Building owners and contractors get the same cover: a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. Faults in the structure, damage and other trades’ work fall outside it, and we say so plainly.
- Location
- Camperdown (DD2)
- Region
- Dundee
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Different surfaces, different methods
Risers and ceiling voids
Risers and ceiling voids hold most of a building’s service penetrations. Access to these areas is planned with you in advance along with any permits your site needs.
Plastic pipes
In a fire, plastic pipework melts away and leaves an opening. Small sizes are sometimes covered by an intumescent sealant detail, though larger ones usually call for a collar or wrap. We confirm material and size first and tell you if sealant isn’t the right product.
Compartments and services around Camperdown
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, with products tested for that end use. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail. The 2 miles around Camperdown include five care or nursing homes. Where new services have gone through compartment walls in a care setting, the gaps need the specified product.
For an estates team at a campus like University of Dundee (3 miles south-east of Camperdown), summer M&E works are typically followed by a round of penetration sealing. For a unit at a centre such as Kingsway West Retail Park (1.9 miles east of Camperdown), penetration seals are worth checking after each shop fit.
Camperdown is about 2 miles north-west of Blackness, in Dundee. Camperdown sits inside our coverage and the rest of Dundee, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. Camperdown is one of 28 places we cover in Dundee.
If you need fire stopping in DD2, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Close to Camperdown, our area also takes in Charleston (1 mile south), Dryburgh (1 mile south-east), Birkhill (1 mile north-west), Ardler (1 mile east) and Gowrie Park (1 mile south). Nearby towns on our patch include Dundee (3 miles east), Broughty Ferry (7 miles east), Stobswell (3 miles east), Barnhill (7 miles east), Pitkerro (4 miles east) and Whitfield (5 miles east).
Around Camperdown
Around Camperdown, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Balgay Hill and Cox Branch Library, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Invergowrie station, about 2 miles south of the centre. A little further out are Strathmartine Castle (2.2 miles north) and Wellgate Centre (3.1 miles south-east). Open spaces near Camperdown include Trottick Mill Ponds and Piperdam Loch.
Common questions from Camperdown clients
Is a smaller place like Camperdown outside your area?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. Our area covers all of Scotland, cities, towns and islands alike. Where we can, we group nearby jobs to make the most of each trip.
Do you work in occupied care homes around Camperdown?
Yes. We work around residents’ routines, a room or two at a time. Noise and disruption are kept to a minimum.
Do you hold third-party fire-stopping installer certification?
No. We are not members of a third-party fire-stopping installer scheme. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and our applicators are CSCS-carded. If your contract requires third-party installer certification, we’re not the right fit for that package.
Do you work in Scotland as well as England?
Our area runs from Greater London and the South East to every part of Scotland. In Scotland, clause 2.1.14 of the non-domestic Technical Handbook says service penetrations should keep at least the fire resistance of the wall or floor.
When can the area be used after sealing?
We will confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and flag anything to keep off until it has cured.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. We take on portfolio and planned maintenance work, planned site by site to suit how each building is used.
Can you tell us what fire stopping our building needs?
No. The specification comes from your designer, fire engineer or building control. Our role is fitting the specified fire-rated sealant, following the maker’s tested details.
Towns and villages near Camperdown
Other services in Camperdown
When to call us in Camperdown
Openings in fire-resisting walls normally appear when services are added or changed. New cabling, rerouted pipework or a data route drilled through a riser can leave the hole behind. Over a few years of fit-outs, a wall can collect a lot of these.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Colleges such as Dundee and Angus College - Kingsway Campus, 2.6 miles to the east of Camperdown, add IT and services as courses change, and each new penetration through a fire-resisting wall needs sealing with the specified product.
What to look for in a quote
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- How the existing material will be dealt with
Maintenance after handover
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged.
Regular walk-rounds of service areas are worth the time. A cracked or disturbed seal found early is a small job.
When something else is needed
Not every problem is a sealant problem, and we’re upfront when that’s the case. It won’t fix:
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
If in doubt, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll say what we think before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Our process
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we will plan around them. 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. Where we can, we combine work around Camperdown with other jobs nearby. Let us know if your dates have any give.
- 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.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Request a quote
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photos and a description will do.