Hill of Keir fire stopping
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps across Hill of Keir, by CSCS-carded applicators. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
Fire stopping for businesses in Hill of Keir
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Owners, agents and contractors
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send the details, accept a fixed quote, and we carry out and guarantee the work. We can agree access arrangements and keyholder contacts beforehand.
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor. Programme, specification and site rules come first, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
About our fire stopping in Hill of Keir
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. We work from your penetration schedule or marked-up drawings. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. We work on pipe penetrations, joints between fire-resisting walls and floors and linear gaps at wall heads, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are unsealed openings around new pipes and cables and fire sealant pulled out of the opening. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Hill of Keir first comes to us: we look at the rest while we are there and tell you what we find.
For a building near Hill of Keir, we plan fire-rated sealing so it’s finished in one visit where possible. Send the specification and photos of the openings, with sizes if you have them.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, wherever the site is. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Where
- Hill of Keir (AB23)
- Wider area
- Aberdeenshire
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
What else we do in Hill of Keir
Maintenance after handover
For the best life from the joints:
- Ask the designer to confirm details early on refits
- Have penetrations checked while they can still be seen
- Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
New services after handover are a common way fire stopping gets breached. A short check at the end of each job saves a long hunt later.
Specify fire stopping early on refits, not as an afterthought. The designer can then choose details that suit the services planned, and installation follows the programme.
When it isn’t the sealant
Part of a good diagnosis is knowing where sealant stops. We will tell you if the real problem is one of these:
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Issuing fire ratings or certificates for seals
Not sure which it is? You can call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we will tell you honestly.
What we seal
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
Compartment walls and floors in Hill of Keir
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, and products should be tested for their end use. Our part is installing the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail.
Wherever services are added at a hospital such as Kingseat Hospital (to the west of Hill of Keir) the compartment line has to be made good with the specified product. Where a unit on an estate such as Blackdog Industrial Centre, 2.7 miles south of Hill of Keir, has fire-resisting walls between offices and warehouse, any new service through them should be sealed to the tested detail. Older community buildings such as Belhelvie North Church that have been rewired or given new heating can have service gaps through walls worth checking against the specification.
Hill of Keir is about 7 miles north of Aberdeen, in Aberdeenshire. Commercial clients in Hill of Keir use us for work on service penetrations. 179 places across Aberdeenshire fall within our area, including Hill of Keir. We also cover Aberdeen, some 7 miles away.
We cover the AB23 postcode districts. If your building is just outside Hill of Keir, we cover Belhelvie (1 mile south), Balmedie (1 mile south-east), Whitecairns (2 miles west), Potterton (2 miles south) and Kingseat (3 miles west). A short drive away, we cover Inverurie (11 miles west), Westhill (11 miles south-west), Ellon (8 miles north), Portlethen (14 miles south), Garioch (11 miles west) and Kemnay (14 miles west).
Around Hill of Keir
Well-known places in the area include Kingseat Hospital (2.8 miles west) and Foveran Castle (4.3 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Corby Loch and Perwinnes Hill.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
Some joints are best left to specialists: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. Getting these wrong typically costs more in the end than doing them right.
Hill of Keir: questions and answers
Will you take on work at estates like Blackdog Industrial Centre, close to Hill of Keir?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Hill of Keir, Blackdog Industrial Centre among them, are all within reach. A few photos and the unit address let us price the work.
Is Hill of Keir too far out for you?
No. Places such as Hill of Keir are covered as much as the big towns. We work across every Scottish council area. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
How long does a typical visit take?
It depends on the scope, but the work typically takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building. For bigger or phased jobs, we will set out a timescale with the quote.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, for external work. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so external work may be moved if conditions aren’t right. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
Can one quote cover more than one building?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, and you deal with one contact throughout across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.
Will you sign off the seals for us?
No. Sign-off belongs to the designer or building control, not the installer. We will confirm the product and detail installed and agree any further records when we quote.
What happens if old sealant might contain asbestos?
Some older mastics, especially in pre-2000 buildings, can contain asbestos. Before we disturb old sealant in an older building, we ask to see the asbestos register or survey, and if asbestos is suspected, work stops until it’s tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials.
From enquiry to sign-off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Any old material is cut back to clean, sound faces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. Tell us who will meet us and how to get in at your building near Hill of Keir. That goes into the plan alongside the quote.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- We gun the sealant in to the specified depth around each service and tool it.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
What we need from you
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
- Send your site hours and access windows
Get a fixed quote
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and we will put a fixed quote together. The easiest way is to phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Advice
Surface by surface
Cables and cable bundles
Data cabling added after handover is a regular cause of open service penetrations. Openings around new cables are resealed to the detail, and any bundle too large for sealant alone is flagged.
Metal pipes
Copper and steel pipes are a common service penetration for fire-rated sealant. Pipe diameter, annular gap, sealant depth and any pipe insulation all have to match the detail.