Kentallen fire stopping
Need fire stopping in Kentallen? Send us the details for a fixed quote, backed by a 12-month guarantee on the work.
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Openings left by services added after handover
Fire stopping for businesses in Kentallen
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Quoting for work in Kentallen
The price varies from site to site. It mainly depends on:
- The size and state of each joint
- Travel to remote or island sites
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- The site’s rules and procedures
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Mention the access as part of your enquiry.
Before you send an enquiry
There’s no need for a formal survey. These details are enough to start:
- How the joints are reached, and at what height
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Specification clauses that apply
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings that you can work with. If you have questions first, phone 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
About our fire stopping in Kentallen
It helps to set out our role at the start. Deciding the specification sits with the designer, the fire engineer and building control. What we bring is careful installation of the specified sealant, to the maker’s guidance on buildings around Kentallen. If you have fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover and service penetrations left open after M&E works, we can help, on pipe penetrations, service gaps in risers and linear gaps at wall heads alike. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Kentallen, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
Refurbishments in small hotels, schools and care homes around places like Kentallen can leave gaps around new services. A round of checks after M&E work is good practice, and any gaps found are sealed where fire-rated sealant is specified.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Kentallen (PA38)
- Wider area
- Highland
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Fire-rated sealing for Kentallen buildings
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.
For a unit at a site such as North Ballachulish Industrial Estate, 2.6 miles to the north-east of Kentallen, new power or data runs between office and warehouse can breach a compartment wall. Hotels like Holly Tree Hotel, less than half a mile north-west of Kentallen, are refurbished in phases, and each phase can open up compartment walls.
Kentallen is in Highland. Kentallen sits inside our coverage and the rest of Highland, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Our Highland coverage takes in 256 places. Sites around Glasgow have their own page, roughly 68 miles from Kentallen.
Business premises anywhere in PA38 are within our area for service penetrations. Sites close to Kentallen are covered too, including Duror (2 miles south-west), Clo Mhuillin (3 miles north), Inchree (3 miles north), Corran (3 miles north) and Ballachulish (4 miles east). Nearby towns on our patch include Fort William (11 miles north-east), Caol (13 miles north-east), Inverlochy (12 miles north-east) and Kinlochmore (11 miles east). Where a site is remote or on an island, travel and materials need planning ahead, so the full address helps from the start.
Local landmarks in Kentallen
Open spaces near Kentallen include Lochan na Luireach and Ardsheal Hill.
Maintenance after handover
Problems stay small when the joints are checked regularly. In particular:
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Record which product was used where
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
After the work, brief anyone else working in the area that the openings are now sealed. Any seal cut back for a new service needs reinstating to its tested detail, by someone who knows the system.
The simplest way to keep compartment walls intact is to plan fire stopping into every job that crosses them. That way the opening is sealed while the trade and access are still there.
From enquiry to sign-off
On arrival, we report to your site contact and complete whatever induction the building runs. Everything around the joints gets protected before any cutting starts, with the work itself usually taking anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access. For work around Kentallen, we aim for one trip, so photos, sizes and a full list matter. External joints need a dry spell as well.
- First we confirm the product and tested details named in the specification.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- 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.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
Getting the site ready
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
Quotes
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email.
Related advice
What sealant work can’t fix
A proper diagnosis includes knowing what sealant can’t do. We will tell you if the real problem is one of these:
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
If you are not sure, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
What we seal
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Surface by surface
Metal pipes
Heat travels along metal pipework, and the tested detail may ask for insulation beyond the wall. If the detail needs something beyond sealant, we tell you.
Small ducts
Ducts are only sealed with sealant where the detail allows it. Dampers and ductwork systems themselves are outside our work.
Places near Kentallen
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Your questions answered
How do the Scottish rules apply to fire-rated sealing in Kentallen?
The non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14, expects a penetration to keep at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance period, with proprietary products tested for the use they’re put to. The detail is set by the designer and goes through the warrant process; we install the specified product to its tested detail.
Is Kentallen too small for you to travel to?
No. Places such as Kentallen are covered as much as the big towns. We work across every Scottish council area. Send photos and a list of what needs doing, and we’ll plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and we will price the work to it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Do you hold CHAS accreditation?
Yes. We’re CHAS accredited, we’re a Constructionline member and we use CSCS-carded applicators.
Who decides which product is used?
The specification comes first, if there is one. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
How long does a typical visit take?
That varies with the scale of the job, though a typical visit usually takes anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access. For bigger or phased jobs, we will set out a timescale with the quote.
Can one quote cover more than one building?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, with one point of contact across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.
Owners, agents and contractors
If you look after buildings for someone else, clear figures and clear communication matter. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end.
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Kentallen can form part of a wider programme.