Fire stopping in Dury
We carry out fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Dury and the surrounding area. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Fire sealant pulled out of the opening
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
Fire stopping for businesses in Dury
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
For managing agents and facilities managers
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed. Keys, access and contacts can be agreed in advance.
Building owners and managing agents use us on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around Dury. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
Fire stopping in Dury
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over with the schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. If you have penetration schedules that need working through and fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated, we can help. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Dury, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Hotels and care homes around smaller places like Dury often have services added during refurbishment. A round of checks after M&E work is good practice, and any gaps found are sealed where fire-rated sealant is specified.
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.
- Place
- Dury (ZE2)
- Region
- Shetland Islands
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Questions about Dury
Can you produce the fire-stopping design for a job in Dury?
No, that sits with the designer, fire engineer or building control. We install fire-rated and intumescent sealant around service penetrations and linear gaps where it is specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
How do the Scottish rules apply to fire-rated sealing in Dury?
Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook covers it in clause 2.1.14: penetrations keep at least the element’s fire resistance duration, with products tested for their end use. We install what has been specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail, while design and approval sit with the designer and the verifier.
How many days will you need on site?
It depends on the scope, though a typical visit usually takes anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access. Larger or phased jobs take longer, and we’ll give you a timescale with the quote.
How much does the work 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.
Are you CHAS accredited and on Constructionline?
Yes. We are CHAS accredited, we’re a Constructionline member and we use CSCS-carded applicators.
Does the weather affect the work?
It can, when the joints are outside. Sealant won’t bond properly to a wet or frosty joint, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
Is colour matching possible?
That depends on the product. Some ranges are wide, others limited, so we will confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
Different surfaces, different methods
Plastic pipes
In a fire, plastic pipework melts away and leaves an opening. Some intumescent sealants are tested on smaller plastic pipes. We check the pipe material and diameter against the detail before we start.
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. We use the product and backing the detail names for that movement, with no gaps along the run.
What else we do in Dury
Keeping the joints sound
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
Don’t patch a fire-rated seal with anything outside its tested detail. A repair should use the original product, installed the same way unless the designer specifies otherwise.
Ask every contractor who works in risers or voids to report openings they create. It costs little and catches breaches early.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Certain joints really need a specialist: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. Getting these wrong usually costs more in the end than doing them right.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class.
Our process
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. 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. For work around Dury, we aim for one trip, which is why we ask for photos and a full list first. External joints need a dry spell as well.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send.
- On site, each opening is checked against the tested detail it is meant to follow.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant is gunned in to the specified depth, then tooled.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
Before we start on site
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Arrange parking or a loading space
Ask for a quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.
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What affects the price in Dury
These are the things that shape the price:
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Joint width, depth and condition
- The product specified
Every site prices differently: joint size, product, access and site hours all play a part. A fixed quote follows once we understand the job.
What we need to price the job
Diagnosis starts before we arrive. Tell us:
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- The site address and postcode
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
- Specification clauses that apply
For a fixed quote, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with the site address and an outline of the work. You can also send details through our quote form.
Compartments and services around Dury
Being on an island, Dury means planning around ferry times as well as the weather. Photos of each opening and the specification mean the right products make the trip. 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, using products tested for the way they’re used. We install fire-rated sealant to that tested detail where it is specified.
For any site around Dury, we work to the specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance, leaving design and sign-off with the designer. Buildings near Dury get the fire-rated product that’s specified, installed to its tested detail.
Dury is in the Shetland Islands. Dury sits inside our coverage and the rest of the Shetland Islands, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. 63 places across the Shetland Islands fall within our area, including Dury.
We take on service penetrations across the ZE2 postcode area, whatever the building. Dury sits on or close to the B9075, useful when we plan access and materials. Nearby places we also cover include Vidlin (4 miles north), Vassa (4 miles south), Voe (4 miles north-west), Clate (5 miles east) and Sandwick (5 miles east). Bigger towns within reach include Lerwick (12 miles south), Sound (12 miles south), Scalloway (13 miles south) and Brae (8 miles north-west). Island and remote sites need extra planning, with travel, ferry crossings where needed and weather to allow for, so give the site location in your enquiry.
Around Dury
A little further out are The Cabin Museum (2.4 miles north). Not far away are Quinni Loch and Hill of Neap.