Lionel fire stopping
Fire stopping in Lionel, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Openings left by services added after handover
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
Fire stopping in Lionel
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Honest limits
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
- Plastic pipes whose detail calls for a collar or wrap
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
If you are not sure, just phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
Fire stopping in Lionel
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. To price a package, call 01277 525 020 or email us with the schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. We work on small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows, linear gaps at wall heads and service gaps in risers, and the failures we are asked to look at most are non-fire-rated filler around services and improvised or mixed-product fire seals. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, in Lionel it comes down to the same thing: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Refurbishments in small hotels, schools and care homes around places like Lionel 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.
Every job ends the same way: guaranteed. Our workmanship is backed for 12 months, and we explain exactly what that covers when we quote.
- Place
- Lionel (HS2)
- Wider area
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
How the job changes by surface
Cables and cable bundles
Data cabling added after handover is a regular cause of open service penetrations. We reseal around them to the specified detail, and any bundle too large for sealant alone is flagged.
Small ducts
Some fire-rated sealant details cover small ducts. Bigger ducts and fire-resisting ductwork are normally handled with other products.
Questions about Lionel
What do Scotland’s building standards say about service penetrations in Lionel?
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.
Do you decide the fire-stopping details for buildings in Lionel?
No. The designer or fire engineer sets the detail and building control accepts it. We install fire-rated and intumescent sealant around service penetrations and linear gaps where it is specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
Can you send site paperwork?
Requirements differ from site to site, so list what you need, whether RAMS, insurance or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm with the quote.
Can you quote from photographs?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a visit.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and we will price the work to it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Are you CHAS accredited and on Constructionline?
Yes. We are CHAS accredited, we are a Constructionline member and we use CSCS-carded applicators.
Can the sealant be colour-matched?
It depends on the product specified. Some ranges are wide, others limited, so the available colours are confirmed with the quote.
General trades versus a specialist
Redoing a failed joint typically costs more than getting it right at the outset, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.
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 usually costs more in the end than doing them right.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
When we get to site, we sign in, go through any site induction and check how permits are handled. Everything around the joints gets protected before any cutting starts, and the work normally takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building. Jobs near Lionel are often grouped with others in the same area. Tell us how flexible your dates are.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals and raise any questions before we price.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- Mineral wool or other backing goes in wherever the detail asks.
- 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.
What we need from you
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
Get a fixed 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 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Related advice
Why it’s worth doing now in Lionel
Inspections and handover checks often pick up fire stopping. Finding unsealed or improvised openings late can hold up a programme. Around smaller places like Lionel, halls, stores and seasonal buildings may not be checked often, giving water time to get in. Resealing early avoids that.
Every site prices differently: joint size, product, access and site hours all play a part. A fixed quote follows once we understand the job.
Why appoint us
- A fixed quote before work starts
- Constructionline member
- Fully insured
- One phone line for London, the South East and Scotland
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or our accreditations.
Compartment walls and floors in Lionel
Work on Lionel has to fit the ferry timetable and the forecast. The specification and photos of each penetration let us bring the right products first time. Scotland has its own building standards: the non-domestic Technical Handbook (clause 2.1.14) says service penetrations should be fire stopped to at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor, and products should be tested for their end use. Where fire-rated sealant is specified, that’s what we install, to the tested detail.
For buildings in and around Lionel, fire-rated sealant is installed where it is specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail. Schools such as Lionel School often have new data and services installed during holidays, and penetrations through fire-resisting walls should be checked afterwards.
Lionel is about 20 miles north of Stornoway, in Na h-Eileanan Siar. Lionel sits inside our coverage and the rest of Na h-Eileanan Siar, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. We work across 87 places in Na h-Eileanan Siar, large and small.
Commercial sites across HS2 are covered for service penetrations. We also cover Lìonal (1 mile north-west), Coig Peighinnean (1 mile north), Nis (1 mile south-west), Ness (1 mile south) and Sgiogarstaigh (1 mile south-east). Island and remote sites need extra planning, with travel, ferry crossings where needed and weather to allow for, so give the site location in your enquiry.
Landmarks near Lionel
A little further out are Ness Heritage Centre (0.6 miles south-west).
After the work
To get the most from the new sealant:
- Ask the designer to confirm details early on refits
- Keep product data and details in the fire safety file
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Make fire stopping part of every scope that crosses a fire-resisting wall
During planned inspections, look at seals in risers, cupboards and voids. Look for cracks, unsealed new cables and gaps that have been enlarged, and report them promptly.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. It tells the next contractor exactly what to reinstate.