Gracemount fire stopping
Need fire stopping in Gracemount? It’s simple: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed.
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
Need fire stopping in Gracemount?
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
About our fire stopping in Gracemount
It helps to set out our role at the start. The designer, fire engineer or building control decides which fire stopping is required. We fit the specified fire-rated sealant following that specification and the maker’s installation guidance in Gracemount and nearby. If you are dealing with openings found when ceilings come down for a refit and unsealed openings around new pipes and cables, we can put it right, on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and service gaps in risers alike. Searching for sealant specialists in Gracemount? Mastic Doctor has worked for contractors, FMs and building owners since 2005, with CSCS-carded applicators.
Older stone and tenement buildings in Scotland’s cities have normally been re-serviced many times. Wall type and service type decide the product, so both are checked before sealing.
Every job ends the same way: guaranteed. You get a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, and the quote explains what it covers.
- Where
- Gracemount (EH17, EH16)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
What sets the cost
We price every job individually. The things that drive the figure:
- Joint width, depth and condition
- How much there is to seal
- Working within restricted access windows
- Travel to remote or island sites
Access can matter as much as the joints themselves: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Mention the access as part of your enquiry.
Sending details for a quote
We can often quote from photos and a few details. Please tell us:
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- What the building is and how it’s used
- The product your specification calls for
- The postcode of the building
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints are often enough for a fixed quote. Where a site visit makes more sense, we’ll arrange one.
Service penetrations in Gracemount buildings
Two care or nursing homes sit less than 2 miles from Gracemount. Care settings depend on compartmentation, so service penetrations made during maintenance or refurbishment need sealing with the specified product. 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. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail.
Theatres, wards and plant rooms at sites like Ellen's Glen Community Hospital, less than half a mile to the north-east of Gracemount, all have compartment walls crossed by services. Holiday works at schools like Gracemount High School often leave service openings to seal before pupils return. Shop fits in centres such as Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, 1.5 miles to the north of Gracemount, can bring new services through fire-resisting walls between units, which then need the specified seal.
Gracemount is about 3 miles south-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Gracemount use us for work on service penetrations, as part of our coverage of Edinburgh. Gracemount is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list for service penetrations.
If you need fire stopping in EH17 and EH16, the process matches everywhere else we work: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. For a building on Soutra Road, Little Road and Mansion Lane or nearby, we can quote for service penetrations. Nearby places we also cover include Southhouse (1 mile south), Howden Hall (1 mile west), Ellen's Glen (1 mile north-east), Alnwickhill (1 mile west) and Kaimes (1 mile south-west) for service penetrations. Further afield, our area takes in Edinburgh (3 miles north-west), Leith (5 miles north), Bonnington (5 miles north), Greenside (4 miles north), Broughton (4 miles north) and Bellevue (4 miles north).
Local landmarks in Gracemount
We work on buildings around Drum Park and Liberton Parish Church, among other places. For rail, the closest station is Shawfair station, roughly 2.7 miles east. Nearby you will also find Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (1.5 miles north) and Natural History Collections (1.4 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Duddingston Loch and The New Leaf Co-op.
Looking after the joints
Your facilities or cleaning team can help the joints last. Pass these on to them:
- Report damaged or disturbed seals as soon as they’re spotted
- Agree the fire-stopping specification before services go in
- File the specified details where the next contractor can find them
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
After the work, brief anyone else working in the area that the openings are now sealed. If a seal has to be opened for a new service, it should be reinstated to the same detail.
Specify fire stopping early on refits, not as an afterthought. Details can then be picked to suit the actual pipes, cables and ducts.
How a job runs
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. We sign and contain the area we are in, keep walkways clear and move on in phases so staff and visitors can carry on around us. For premises in Gracemount, tell us about access times, shared entrances and any building rules, so the work can be phased and areas kept in use.
- We read the specification, drawings or penetration schedule you send.
- 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.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant is gunned in to the specified depth, then tooled.
- If an opening needs something other than sealant, we tell you instead of improvising.
Before we start on site
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Request a quote
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Advice
Your questions answered
Can you seal penetrations in a hotel in Gracemount after a refit?
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.
Can you work at a site such as Eldin Industrial Estate, by Gracemount?
Yes, sites like Eldin Industrial Estate are within our area, along with the rest of Gracemount. To start, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with the unit, the joints involved and your access times.
Can you fit around our working hours?
The office is staffed Monday to Friday, from 8am until 5pm. Tell us your site hours and access windows and the work will be fitted around them.
Will you come and look before quoting?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a visit.
Will you quote for a small job?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Photos and a description are enough to start.
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.
When can the area be used after sealing?
Curing time varies by product, and we confirm it on the day, and flag anything to keep off until it has cured.
How the job changes by surface
Metal pipes
Sealant details often cover copper and steel pipework. The tested detail sets the pipe size range, gap, depth and whether insulation can stay on and we confirm each before sealing.
Masonry and concrete
Core-drilled holes are neat; broken-out ones rarely are. Each gap is measured where it is widest so we know it sits within the tested range.
What we can’t put right
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It won’t put right:
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
Not sure which it is? You can give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
What we seal
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
Work for main contractors and building owners
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Gracemount can form part of a wider programme.
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. The work is planned around how the building runs, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.