Fire stopping in Holyrood
We carry out fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Holyrood. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
Fire stopping near Holyrood
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Fire stopping for commercial buildings in Holyrood
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Larger openings and some plastic pipes call for collars, wraps, batts or boards instead. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. Site teams most often ask us about seals that don’t match their tested detail and hidden openings found during inspections, across cable penetrations, service gaps in risers and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows. Most enquiries from Holyrood start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we look at the rest while we’re there and tell you what we find.
Under Scotland’s building standards, a service penetration should keep at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor it passes through. For a building in Holyrood, specified fire-rated sealant is installed as the maker’s tested detail describes.
Our 12-month guarantee is about workmanship, not wear and tear. Sealant wears with time, and movement, weather, cleaning and use decide how fast, so we spell out the cover before we begin.
- Where
- Holyrood (EH8, EH1, EH7)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Different surfaces, different methods
Linear joints
Head-of-wall joints often have to absorb slab deflection. We use the product and backing the detail names for that movement, along the full length of the run.
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.
What affects the price in Holyrood
These are the things that shape the price:
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Working within restricted access windows
- How accessible the joints are
Pricing service penetrations depends on quantities, condition and access, and any specification that applies. Ask us for a fixed quote.
Sending details for a quote
A good diagnosis starts with the right details. Let us know:
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- A wide shot and a close-up of the area
- The type of building and who uses it
- The product your specification calls for
Every job follows the same four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. To take the first step, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Holyrood: questions and answers
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like Astley Ainslie Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
How do the Scottish rules apply to fire-rated sealing in Holyrood?
Under Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook (clause 2.1.14), service penetrations should keep at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance duration, using 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.
What will the job cost?
There isn’t a price list, as every site differs. With photographs or drawings, we can give you a fixed quote.
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: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
What about RAMS and site documents?
Requirements differ from site to site, so tell us what you need and we’ll confirm it when we quote.
Does the weather affect the work?
For external joints, yes. Sealant needs a dry joint and a temperature within the product’s range, so frost, rain or cold mornings can delay outside work. Internal work is rarely affected.
When can you be on site?
Give us your site hours and any access windows in your enquiry, and we will plan around them. Our office runs Monday to Friday, 8am until 5pm.
Signs you need fire stopping in Holyrood
Fire stopping can get squeezed at the end of a programme, or done by whoever is on site. That is when untested combinations creep in, which then have to be put right.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
For a site team at a college like Royal College of General Practitioners Edinburgh, 0.8 miles west of Holyrood, fire-rated sealing is best scheduled after the summer works.
What your quote should include
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Will CSCS-carded applicators be on site?
Fire-rated sealing for Holyrood buildings
A 2-mile radius around Holyrood takes in a good number of hotels. Bedroom-to-corridor walls in hotels are normally fire-resisting, so new cabling or pipework through them has to be sealed to the tested detail. 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, and products should be tested for their end use. Our part is installing the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail.
Refits at places like Meadowbank Shopping Park (0.8 miles north-east of Holyrood) often reroute services through walls between units. Tenant changes at centres like St. James Centre, less than half a mile to the north-west of Holyrood, often mean new services through walls between units.
Holyrood is about 1 mile north-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Commercial clients in Holyrood use us for work on service penetrations. We work across 174 places in Edinburgh, from busy centres to rural villages.
We take on service penetrations across the EH8, EH1 and EH7 postcode area. We cover commercial and managed buildings on High Street, Calton Road and Hutton Road. Close to Holyrood, our area also takes in Canongate (1 mile north-east), Dumbiedykes (1 mile south-east), Buccleuch (1 mile south), Greenside (1 mile north) and Old Town (1 mile south-west). Further afield, our area takes in Queensferry (9 miles west), Southhouse (4 miles south), Gilmerton (4 miles south-east), Muirhouse (3 miles north-west), Slateford (3 miles south-west) and Gracemount (3 miles south).
What’s near Holyrood
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The World's End pub, Scottish Poetry Library and Holyrood Park. Holyrood has its own railway station: Edinburgh Waverley station. Well-known places in the area include Royal Public Dispensary of Edinburgh (less than half a mile west) and People's Story Museum (less than half a mile north-east). Open spaces near Holyrood include Dunsapie Loch and Salisbury Crags.
Building owners, agents and FMs in Holyrood
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, clear figures and clear communication matter. We quote a fixed sum, confirm the scope and walk the finished work with you or your representative.
FMs need a contractor who is easy to get on site. Tell us what site paperwork you need, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm with the quote.
Why deal with it now?
Leave a penetration open and smoke and fire can cross into the next compartment far earlier than intended. While the openings can be reached, sealing them is normally straightforward. Left until ceilings are closed or a tenant moves in, the same work costs more access and more disruption. In Holyrood, as across Scotland, rain finds any gap, so a split or hardened joint lets water into the wall. Renewing them early protects the fabric.
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 us?
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Fully insured
- Commercial sealant work since 2005
- One contact handling all your sites
Take a look at what affects the cost and how we’re accredited.
What else we do in Holyrood
How a job runs
Our CSCS-carded applicators arrive with the sealants, primers and backing rod the job calls for. 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. Tenement closes, shared stairs and factor approvals may also be involved.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Improvised fillers and failed sealant are removed.
- Where the detail needs backing, it goes in at the stated depth.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Before we start on site
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
Get a fixed quote
The quickest route to a quote is a few photos and the site postcode. Send them through the quote form, or ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form to discuss it first.