Eddleston fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps throughout Eddleston and nearby, by CSCS-carded applicators. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
Need fire stopping in Eddleston?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Hotels, schools, healthcare sites, offices and retail units come to us directly as well. The work is planned around how the building runs, so the building keeps working while we do.
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Sites in Eddleston can sit alongside others in a wider programme.
How we handle fire stopping in Eddleston
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 part is installing fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those openings and along linear gaps, where the specification calls for it. Each seal follows the manufacturer’s tested detail, not a rule of thumb. We work on cable penetrations, linear gaps at wall heads and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, and what we’re called in for most is seals that don’t match their tested detail and seals disturbed by maintenance and left open. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: in Eddleston, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Around smaller places such as Eddleston, compartment walls and floors tend to be in schools, hotels, care homes and community buildings. Those penetrations are closed with the product the specification names, built up as tested.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, in Eddleston 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
- Eddleston (EH45)
- Region
- Scottish Borders
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
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.
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.
On site: what to expect
The first thing on site is a walk round with your contact, agreeing which joints are in scope, where to start and what must stay open. After that, any old or failed material is removed, each joint is prepared and the new sealant goes in. Travel to smaller Scottish places like Eddleston is planned so the job is finished in one visit where possible, so photographs, sizes and a full list matter. Outside work also needs a suitable weather window.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Unsuitable material is removed and the opening cleaned first.
- Backing and fire-rated sealant are installed to the detail and tooled.
- We tell you about openings that need a different product.
Before we start on site
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
Ask for a quote
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and a fixed quote will follow. The easiest way is to speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
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FAQs: Eddleston
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like Hay Lodge Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
Can you seal around new services in a hotel near Eddleston?
Yes, where the specification calls for fire-rated sealant. We match the product to the wall or floor and the services, and say if something other than sealant is needed.
Are you CHAS accredited?
Yes. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
When can the area be used after sealing?
Curing time varies by product, and we confirm it on the day.
How much does the work cost?
It depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a quote and we’ll price it properly.
How do you choose the sealant?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: how much it moves, what it bonds to and whether it’s wet, trafficked or fire-rated.
How do you deal with asbestos in old sealant?
Asbestos is possible in some older mastics, particularly in buildings from before 2000. We check the asbestos register before cutting out old sealant in an older building, and work stops until any suspect material has been tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials.
When to call us in Eddleston
Some seals fail because the wrong product went in: builders’ foam or ordinary silicone used to fill a hole. It may look closed, but it has no tested fire performance in that position and has to be removed.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
In a hotel such as Horse Shoe Inn Hotel (under half a mile north-west of Eddleston), new pipework or cabling through bedroom and corridor walls needs sealing with the specified product.
Questions to ask before you book
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- Who will actually carry out the work
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- How the existing material will be dealt with
Leave it or put it right?
Open service penetrations matter on ordinary days, not just in a fire: smoke, noise and draughts pass through them every day. The specified fire seal closes the gap for all of these and the building feels the difference. In Scotland, wind-driven rain finds a failed joint quickly, and for a smaller place like Eddleston, a repair visit takes planning, so it’s better to act early.
We don’t publish prices, since every building and every scope is different. Call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
Why choose Mastic Doctor in Eddleston
- Failed material removed, not covered up
- Public liability insurance in place
- Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations and insurance.
Penetration seals near Eddleston
Eddleston has several hotels close by, all within 2 miles. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close. Under the Scottish non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14, penetrations should be fire stopped to at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance duration, using products tested for the way they’re used. Our part is installing the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail.
On a hospital site such as Hay Lodge Hospital, 4.1 miles to the south of Eddleston, fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it, with the work planned around the estates team’s permits. For a building such as Eddleston Parish Church, new heating or data runs are the usual reason penetrations need sealing.
Eddleston is about 8 miles south of Penicuik, in the Scottish Borders. Commercial clients in Eddleston can call on us for service penetrations. Across the Scottish Borders, 91 places are covered, Eddleston among them. For work in that direction, see our Edinburgh page, about 16 miles away.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout EH45, whatever the building. If your site is on Station Road, Burnside and Bellfield Road or close by, we can quote for service penetrations. Sites close to Eddleston are covered too, including Peebles (4 miles south), Romannobridge (5 miles west), Cardrona (6 miles south-east), Cardrona Village (6 miles south-east) and West Linton (6 miles north-west).
What’s near Eddleston
Nearby you’ll also find Neidpath Castle (4.1 miles south) and Hay Lodge Hospital (4.1 miles south). Open spaces near Eddleston include Portmore Loch and Hog Hill.
Honest limits
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
If in doubt, call the office on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we will say what we think before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Cable penetrations