Gowrie Park fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Gowrie Park and across Dundee. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping in Gowrie Park
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Compartment walls and floors in Gowrie Park
The area within 2 miles of Gowrie Park holds several hotels. In hotels, bedroom and corridor walls are typically fire-resisting, so services added in a refit need sealing with the specified product. The 2 miles around Gowrie Park include three care or nursing homes. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal. Where that’s fire-rated sealant, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
At a healthcare site like Ninewells Hospital, which lies east of Gowrie Park, new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal. For a unit at a centre such as Kingsway West Retail Park, 2.5 miles north-east of Gowrie Park, penetration seals are worth checking after each shop fit.
Gowrie Park is about 2 miles west of Blackness, in Dundee. Gowrie Park sits inside our coverage and the rest of Dundee, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. 28 places across Dundee fall within our area, Gowrie Park among them.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout DD2, for business premises of every kind. If your site is on Mill Road, Main Street and Fulton Road or close by, we can quote for service penetrations. Nearby places we also cover include Invergowrie (1 mile west), Ninewells (1 mile south-east), Menzieshill (1 mile east), Charleston (1 mile north-east) and Camperdown (1 mile north). Further afield, our area takes in Dundee (3 miles east), Broughty Ferry (7 miles east), Stobswell (4 miles east), Barnhill (8 miles east), Downfield (3 miles north-east) and Pitkerro (5 miles east).
Around Gowrie Park
Around Gowrie Park, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Balgay Hill and Cox Branch Library. The closest station to Gowrie Park is Invergowrie station, roughly 0.8 miles south. Other landmarks nearby include Tayside Medical History Museum (2.5 miles east) and Fowlis Castle (2.3 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Trottick Mill Ponds and Piperdam Loch.
Fire stopping in Gowrie Park
A fire-rated sealant is only one part of a tested system: the evidence covers a specific product, wall or floor type, service, gap, depth and backing. Before we seal anything, we check the opening against the detail it is meant to follow, and we say so if it doesn’t fit. If you have open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls and snag lists that include open service penetrations, we can help, whatever the surface. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: in Gowrie Park, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Large city estates in Scotland, from universities to hospitals and offices, are re-serviced constantly, and each new run of cable or pipe through a compartment wall needs sealing. New openings are closed with the specified fire-rated product, following its test evidence.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. It’s a plain promise: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Location
- Gowrie Park (DD2)
- Wider area
- Dundee
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Commercial clients in Gowrie Park
If you look after buildings for someone else, clear figures and clear communication matter. We quote a fixed sum, confirm the scope and walk the finished work with you or your representative, plus a 12-month guarantee.
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules.
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. In a Scottish city, kerbside space and loading need planning, especially near the centre. Shared closes, stairs and the property factor may need to be part of the plan.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out.
- 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
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
Quotes
Every job follows the same four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. To take the first step, phone 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
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What affects the price in Gowrie Park
Quotes vary with the job. Expect it to depend on:
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- Which sealant the job calls for
- Working within restricted access windows
- Distance, for remote addresses
The work involved drives the cost: stripping out, preparation, sealing, access and phasing. Call for a fixed quote.
What we need to price the job
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, the same details help:
- Any specification or named product
- The type of building and who uses it
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Clear photos of the problem areas
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints and a fixed quote comes back to you. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a site visit.
When it isn’t the sealant
A few problems need another trade or a different fix, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
If you’re not sure, just phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
How the job changes by surface
Risers and ceiling voids
Openings above suspended ceilings are easy to miss. We work through the areas on your schedule methodically, and note anything we find that isn’t on it.
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.
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Gowrie Park: questions and answers
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Gowrie Park?
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. Design sits with the designer and the verifier; installation to the tested detail is our part.
Is Dundee Technology Park, near Gowrie Park, within your area?
Yes. Our area takes in Gowrie Park and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Dundee Technology Park included. To start, just ring 01277 525 020 or use the quote form with the unit, the joints involved and your access times.
Can you work while the building is occupied?
Yes, with some planning. We agree a sequence with your contact so just one area at a time is disrupted.
Can the sealant be colour-matched?
That depends on the product. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so we will confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No. Overlaying old sealant is a frequent cause of early failure, so everything comes out first.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. If you need card details for site access, let us know and we’ll send them with the quote.
Do you cover Gowrie Park?
Yes. Gowrie Park falls within our area, and the simplest way to start is to call 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Common problems we fix in Gowrie Park
Most open service penetrations are left by later work. A new cable pulled by an electrician, a pipe rerouted by a plumber or a data run drilled through a riser leaves an opening that nobody returns to. Over a few years of fit-outs, a wall can collect a lot of these.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
At a university such as University of Dundee, which lies east of Gowrie Park, labs, lecture blocks and residences are re-serviced often, so penetration seals are best checked after M&E work.
What your quote should include
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- Their public liability cover
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?