Craigcrook fire stopping
Planning work on a service penetration in Craigcrook? We assess it, carry out the work and guarantee our workmanship for 12 months.
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
Fire stopping near Craigcrook
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
What sets the cost
Quotes vary with the job. Expect it to depend on:
- Any access equipment needed
- Working within restricted access windows
- Which sealant the job calls for
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
There’s no price list, since every building and every scope is different. Call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
What to include in your enquiry
A few photos plus some basic facts will normally do. It helps to include:
- Access details, including height
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- Specification clauses that apply
- Where the site is, with the postcode
For a fixed quote, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email with the site address and an outline of the work. Our quote form is another easy route.
How we handle fire stopping in Craigcrook
Facilities managers in Craigcrook often find open service penetrations when ceilings come down for other work. Where the walls and floors already have a fire-stopping specification, we can work to it using the product and detail it sets out. With no specification in place, the first step sits with your designer or fire engineer, not with us. Site teams most often ask us about damaged fire seals in risers and voids and openings left by services added after handover, across linear gaps at wall heads, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and cable penetrations. Searching for sealant specialists in Craigcrook? Mastic Doctor has worked for contractors, FMs and building owners since 2005, with CSCS-carded applicators.
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 Craigcrook, penetrations get the fire-rated sealant the specification asks for, built to its tested arrangement.
Guaranteed is the last step of every job. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Location
- Craigcrook (EH4, EH12)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Places near Craigcrook
Other services in Craigcrook
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We begin with a short walk round with whoever looks after the building, to confirm the scope, the order of work and any areas we must keep clear. After that, any old or failed material is removed, each joint is prepared and the new sealant goes in. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals and ask about anything unclear.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Unsuitable fillers and loose debris are taken out of each opening.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- We apply the specified sealant to the depth and around the services as the detail shows.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
What we need from you
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
Quotes
The quickest route to a quote is a few photos and the site postcode. Send them through the quote form, or give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email the details over if you’d rather talk the job through.
Related advice
Your questions answered
Can you seal around new services in a hotel near Craigcrook?
Yes, where the specification calls for fire-rated sealant. Work is done room by room so the hotel keeps trading; design and sign-off stay with the designer and building control.
Would you work within a site like Spire Murrayfield Hospital?
Yes, provided the work is planned with the site’s estates team. The estates team’s permit system and infection-control rules come first, and the work is planned around them.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. We take on portfolio and planned maintenance work, with each site phased to suit its occupants.
Which sealant will you use?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. Without one, the joint decides: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and the quote will be based on it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Is colour matching possible?
Often, yes. Sealants are made in a wide range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or nearby finishes is commonly requested. We will confirm the colours available for the specified product.
Is any job too small?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Send details for a fixed quote.
Compartments and services around Craigcrook
Six care or nursing homes sit less than 2 miles from Craigcrook. In a care home, any new pipe or cable through a fire-resisting wall should be sealed to the specified detail. Where that’s fire-rated sealant, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail. Plenty of hotels sit less than 2 miles from Craigcrook. A hotel refit often runs new services through compartment walls between bedrooms and corridors, and each opening needs the specified seal.
Campus buildings at universities such as Edinburgh Napier University (2.4 miles south of Craigcrook) see constant changes to data and services, and fire-rated sealant goes in around new penetrations where it is specified. At a healthcare site like Spire Murrayfield Hospital, 1.1 miles south of Craigcrook, new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal.
Craigcrook is about 2 miles west of West End, in Edinburgh. If you’re looking for fire stopping in Craigcrook, we can help. Craigcrook is one of 174 places we cover in Edinburgh.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout EH4 and EH12. If your site is on Loch Road, March Road and Main Street or close by, send details and we will quote for service penetrations. Access to Craigcrook is via the A90 among other routes, so getting applicators and materials to site is simple. Just outside Craigcrook, we also work in Davidson's Mains (1 mile north-west), Blackhall (1 mile east), Silverknowes (1 mile north), Drylaw (1 mile north-east) and Ravelston (1 mile south-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Edinburgh (3 miles south-east), Leith (4 miles east), Bonnington (4 miles east), Greenside (3 miles east), Broughton (3 miles east) and Bellevue (3 miles east).
Near you in Craigcrook
We work on buildings around Gabrielle Keiller Library, St George's School and Saughton Park. Craigcrook’s nearest station is South Gyle station, roughly 2 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Craigcrook Castle (less than half a mile south) and Corstorphine Hospital (1.1 miles south). Open spaces near Craigcrook include Corstorphine Hill and The New Leaf Co-op.
When it isn’t the sealant
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. On its own, sealant can’t deal with:
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
If in doubt, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll say what we think.
Where we work in Craigcrook
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Surface by surface
Masonry and concrete
Block walls and concrete floors are common substrates for penetration seals. Dust and loose debris are cleared out of the opening.
Plastic pipes
In a fire, plastic pipework melts away and leaves an opening. Small sizes are sometimes covered by an intumescent sealant detail, but many need a collar or wrap. We check the pipe material and diameter against the detail before we start.
After the work
Every sealant joint needs some looking after, and how long they last depends on how they’re treated. We suggest:
- Have penetrations checked while they can still be seen
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
- Record which product was used where
During planned inspections, look at seals in risers, cupboards and voids. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged, and report them promptly.
On fit-outs, get the fire-stopping specification agreed before the services go in. Details can then be picked to suit the actual pipes, cables and ducts, and the work runs in step with the M&E.
When to call us in Craigcrook
Linear gaps fail where a fire-resisting wall meets a slab, soffit or another wall. Deflection and building movement can open these gaps, and a product not tested for that movement may crack. Linear joint details set a width range and movement capability, and the seal has to sit within them.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
Workshops and IT rooms at colleges like Edinburgh College - Granton Campus (to the north-east of Craigcrook) are re-serviced often, leaving penetrations to seal.
What to look for in a quote
- Whether their applicators hold CSCS cards
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- The named product and why it was chosen