Fire stopping in Cathcart
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Cathcart and across Glasgow. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
Fire stopping in Cathcart
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Questions we’re asked in Cathcart
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like New Victoria Hospital?
Yes, healthcare and care buildings are part of our work. Each area is agreed with the ward or department and the estates team in advance.
Can work at a site such as University of Strathclyde fit around teaching?
Yes. Tell us the term dates, vacation periods and access windows, and we’ll plan the work around them. Let us know which documents your site asks for, and we will confirm them alongside the quote.
Can you reseal penetrations after our M&E works?
Yes, where there is a specification for those walls and floors. Openings left by new services are among the most common jobs we see, and we reseal them to the specified detail.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Each site asks for different documents, so list what you need, whether RAMS, insurance or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm with the quote.
How do we ask for a quote?
There are four steps: send details, receive a fixed quote, we carry out the work, and it’s guaranteed. The first step only needs photos and a postcode.
Do you design or specify fire stopping?
No. Deciding what is needed sits with the designer, fire engineer and building control. Our role is installing what they specify, to the product’s tested detail.
How long will the new sealant 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.
About our fire stopping in Cathcart
Where pipes, cables and other services cross a compartment wall or floor, the opening around them has to be closed so fire and smoke can’t move between compartments. Our job is fitting fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those service penetrations, and along linear gaps, where it is the specified product. Each seal follows the manufacturer’s tested detail, not a rule of thumb. If you’re dealing with service penetrations left open after M&E works and unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings, we can put it right. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Cathcart, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Older stone and tenement buildings in Scotland’s cities have usually been re-serviced many times. Wall type and service type decide the product, so both are checked before sealing, and design questions go to the designer or verifier.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and the quote explains what it covers.
- Where
- Cathcart (G44, G42, G43)
- Wider area
- Glasgow
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
When something else is needed
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
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
Not sure which it is? You can phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we will tell you honestly before you book.
What we seal
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
What affects the price in Cathcart
What shapes the price:
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- How accessible the joints are
- The size and state of each joint
Access can matter as much as the joints themselves: joints within easy reach take less time than ones that need access equipment. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.
What we need to price the job
Diagnosis starts before we arrive. Let us know:
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- The site address and postcode
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we’ll price the work to it. For smaller jobs, photos and a description will do.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. Work on a big city site in Scotland typically involves inductions and permits. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
Getting a fixed 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 will arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.
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What the job involves on each surface
Linear joints
Head-of-wall gaps, slab edges and wall junctions are linear joints. BS EN 1366-4 testing sets the joint widths, depths, backing and movement a seal covers, and we work within it.
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.
For managing agents and facilities managers
Hotels, schools, healthcare sites, offices and retail units book us directly too. The work is planned around how the building runs, so the building keeps working while we do.
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed. We can agree access arrangements and keyholder contacts beforehand.
Compartments and services around Cathcart
Scottish guidance (non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14) asks that penetrations match at least the fire resistance period of the element they pass through, and products should be tested for their end use. We install fire-rated sealant to that tested detail where it is specified. A number of hotels sit less than 2 miles from Cathcart. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
At a university such as University of Strathclyde, 3.1 miles north of Cathcart, labs, lecture blocks and residences are re-serviced often, so penetration seals are best checked after M&E work. Workshops and IT rooms at colleges like Glasgow Clyde College - Langside Campus, 0.5 miles to the north of Cathcart, are re-serviced often, leaving penetrations to seal. Shop fits on retail sites such as Auldhouse Retail Park (to the west of Cathcart) can bring new services through fire-resisting walls between units, to be sealed with the specified product.
Cathcart is about 2 miles north-east of Giffnock, in Glasgow. We cover Cathcart and the rest of Glasgow, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. 171 places across Glasgow fall within our area, Cathcart among them.
We cover the G44, G42 and G43 postcode districts. Buildings on Craig Road, Elrig Road and Ossian Road are within our area for service penetrations. Nearby places we also cover include Mount Florida (1 mile north-east), Langside (1 mile north-west), Muirend (1 mile south-west), Newlands (1 mile south-west) and Simshill (1 mile south-east) for service penetrations. Further afield, our area takes in Hillhead (4 miles north), Dowanhill (4 miles north), Woodlands (4 miles north), Woodside (4 miles north), North Kelvinside (4 miles north) and Partickhill (4 miles north).
Landmarks near Cathcart
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Queen's Park, Couper Institute and Library and The Sir John Stirling Maxwell pub, among other places. Cathcart has its own railway station: Cathcart station. Nearby you’ll also find Haggs Castle (1.6 miles north-west) and Scottish Football Museum (0.8 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Cathkin Braes.
Keeping the joints sound
Cleaning and maintenance staff play a part too. Pass these on to them:
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- Include service cupboards in routine inspections
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
Don’t patch a fire-rated seal with anything outside its tested detail. A repair should use the original product, installed the same way.
Regular walk-rounds of service areas are worth the time. A cracked or disturbed seal found early is a small job; found late, it can be one of many.