Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Craigend, Glasgow
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Craigend and the surrounding area. Send photos or drawings for a fixed quote.
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Fire stopping for Craigend sites
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
About our fire stopping in Craigend
A fire-rated sealant is only one part of a tested system: its test evidence covers one product in one kind of wall or floor, with set services, gaps, depths and backing. We match each opening to that detail before any sealant goes in, and we say so if it doesn’t fit. The enquiries we see most involve fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated and openings found when ceilings come down for a refit, on cable penetrations, service gaps in risers and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors. Searching for sealant specialists in Craigend? We have been sealing commercial buildings since 2005.
Under Scotland’s building standards, a service penetration should keep at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor it passes through. For a building in Craigend, specified fire-rated sealant is installed as the maker’s tested detail describes.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months, in Craigend as everywhere else we work. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Location
- Craigend (G33)
- Region
- Glasgow
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Cost factors for service penetrations
Before we quote, we look at:
- The product specified
- Any access equipment needed
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: scope, access, product and programme. Call for a quote, and you’ll have a fixed figure to work with.
What we need to price the job
There’s no need for a formal survey. A few details are enough to get going:
- Clear photographs of the problem areas
- Specification clauses that apply
- Your programme or deadline
- What the building is and how it’s used
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
What sealant work can’t fix
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It isn’t the answer for:
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
- Designing or specifying fire stopping, which sits with the designer or fire engineer
Not sure which it is? You can speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
Places near Craigend
What else we do in Craigend
Your questions answered
Does your area include sites such as Queenslie Industrial Estate, near Craigend?
Yes. Our area takes in Craigend and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Queenslie Industrial Estate included. To start, just ring 01277 525 020 or email us with the unit, the joints involved and your access times.
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like Lightburn Hospital?
Yes, healthcare and care buildings are part of our work. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
Does the weather affect the work?
It can, when the joints are outside. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price the work to it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Do you take on small jobs?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Photos and a description are enough to start.
Do you seal openings left by new services?
Yes. Share the penetration schedule and product details and a fixed quote follows. Work can run area by area behind the M&E trades.
Is colour matching possible?
Often, yes. Many products come in a range of standard colours, and matching to RAL references or surrounding finishes is often possible. We’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product.
Where services cross fire walls in Craigend
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.
For an estates team at a campus like University of Strathclyde, which lies west of Craigend, summer M&E works are typically followed by a round of penetration sealing. Hospital estates such as Lightburn Hospital, 1 mile south of Craigend, are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail. In a school such as St Andrew's Secondary School, fire-rated sealant goes in around service penetrations where it is specified.
Craigend is about 3 miles south-east of Bishopbriggs, in Glasgow. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Craigend can call on us for service penetrations, as part of our coverage of Glasgow. Craigend is one of 171 places in Glasgow on our list.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in G33 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. For a building on Binns Road, Stepps Road and Gartloch Road or nearby, we can quote for service penetrations. Close to Craigend, our area also takes in Ruchazie (1 mile south-west), Garthamlock (1 mile east), Hogganfield (1 mile north-west), Cranhill (1 mile south-west) and Millerston (1 mile north). Nearby towns on our patch include Glasgow (5 miles west), Hillhead (5 miles west), Dowanhill (6 miles west), Woodlands (5 miles west), Woodside (4 miles west) and North Kelvinside (5 miles west).
Landmarks near Craigend
We work on buildings around Eastbank Academy and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Robroyston station, about 1 mile north-west. A little further out are Lightburn Hospital (1 mile south) and Glasgow Fort (0.9 miles east). The countryside around Craigend includes Lenzie Moss and Hogganfield Loch.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Site rules come first: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. Once we are cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you. Give us the access times and building rules for your premises in Craigend, and we will plan the work to suit, phased where areas need to stay in use.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- 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.
Preparing the site
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
Get a fixed quote
The quickest route to a quote is a few photographs and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us if you’d rather talk the job through.
Advice
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
The visible bead is only part of the job. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. Where it goes wrong is preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
How the job changes by surface
Small ducts
Some fire-rated sealant details cover small ducts. Larger or fire-rated ductwork typically needs a different solution set by the designer, and we will say if that applies.
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.