Fire Stopping in Lochend
Commercial sealant work in Lochend for contractors, FMs and building owners: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, quoted at a fixed price.
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
Fire stopping for businesses in Lochend
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 Lochend
Fire-rated sealant suits many small service penetrations: copper and steel pipes, cables and some small ducts where the tested detail allows. Other openings need collars, wraps, batts, pillows or boards. We use sealant where it is the specified product, and we tell you when a detail calls for something else. If you are dealing with unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab and non-fire-rated filler around services, we can help, whatever the surface. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, the work in Lochend is the same: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
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 Lochend, specified fire-rated sealant is installed as the maker’s tested detail describes.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, wherever the site is. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Place
- Lochend (EH7, EH6, EH8)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Different surfaces, different methods
Risers and ceiling voids
Risers and ceiling voids hold most of a building’s service penetrations. Access is often tight, so we agree it with you in advance, including keys, permits and any isolations.
Masonry and concrete
Core-drilled holes are neat; broken-out ones rarely are. Each gap is measured where it is widest against the detail’s limits.
Cost factors for service penetrations
There’s no standard rate for sealant work, since sites vary so much. What we look at:
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Working within restricted access windows
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
There’s no price list, because the scope varies so much from one building to the next. For a fixed figure, call for a quote and we’ll price your job on its own details.
What to include in your enquiry
Good information means a firmer quote. When you get in touch, include:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Clear photos of the problem areas
- The type of building and who uses it
- Specification clauses that apply
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To start the process, call 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
Places near Lochend
Other services in Lochend
How a job runs
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. The work area is signed and kept contained, with routes through the building left open and work section by section so the rest of the building stays in use. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- Each opening is checked for wall or floor type, service, gap and depth.
- Unsuitable material is removed and the opening cleaned first.
- The specified backing and sealant go in to depth and are finished neatly.
- We tell you about openings that need a different product.
Preparing the site
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Confirm the product named in the specification
Get a fixed quote
For a fixed quote, phone 01277 525 020 or use the quote form, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. You can also send details through our quote form.
Advice
Common problems we fix in Lochend
Head-of-wall joints and wall-to-wall junctions are frequent weak points. Deflection and building movement can open these gaps. Linear joint details set a width range and movement capability, and the seal has to sit within them.
Look out for the following:
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Colleges such as Royal College of General Practitioners Edinburgh, 1.6 miles west of Lochend, add IT and services as courses change, and each new penetration through a fire-resisting wall needs sealing with the specified product.
Questions to ask before you book
- Do they follow the manufacturer’s priming guidance?
- Their public liability cover
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- Will RAMS and insurance details be available?
Why deal with it now?
It is cheaper to seal service penetrations as each services package finishes than to come back for them later. Openings are visible, access is open and nothing has to be taken down, and the right detail can be checked at the time. In a tenement or shared city building, water from a failed joint can reach other owners’ property, which makes early repair simpler for everyone. Fixing it promptly keeps repairs small.
The specified product makes a difference, and so does the preparation, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
Why appoint us
- Products installed to the manufacturer’s instructions
- One contact handling all your sites
- A Constructionline member, so easy to vet
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or our accreditations and insurance.
Lochend: questions and answers
Do you seal service penetrations in hotels around Lochend?
Yes, where fire-rated sealant is the specified product. Each seal follows the tested detail, and rooms are done in turn.
How do the Scottish rules apply to fire-rated sealing in Lochend?
Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook covers it in clause 2.1.14: penetrations keep at least the element’s fire resistance duration, with 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 seal on top of existing sealant?
No. Failed sealant is removed and the faces cleaned back to sound, dry material first, since fresh sealant will not bond reliably to aged material.
Is any job too small?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Photos and a description are enough to start.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
It depends on the product. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so we will confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, and you deal with one contact throughout across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.
When can the area be used after sealing?
That comes down to the sealant and the temperature. Some take light use quickly, others need longer to cure, so we’ll confirm the curing time on the day.
Fire-rated sealing for Lochend 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, with proprietary products, intumescent ones included, tested for their end use. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail. Lochend has a good number of hotels close by, all within 2 miles. In hotels, bedroom and corridor walls are usually fire-resisting, so services added in a refit need sealing with the specified product.
Residences at universities like University of Edinburgh - Holyrood Campus, 1 mile to the south-west of Lochend, have compartment walls that must be resealed whenever services change. Large healthcare estates like Astley Ainslie Hospital, 2.6 miles south-west of Lochend, change their services often, so penetration seals are worth checking after M&E work.
Lochend is about 2 miles north-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. We cover Lochend and the rest of Edinburgh, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. Lochend is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list for service penetrations.
Business premises anywhere in EH7, EH6 and EH8 are within our area for service penetrations. Buildings on Abbey Lane, Easter Road and London Road are within our area for service penetrations. If your building is just outside Lochend, we cover Meadowbank (1 mile south), Restalrig (1 mile east), Abbeyhill (1 mile south-west), Jock's Lodge (1 mile south-east) and Willowbrae (1 mile south-east). A short drive away, we cover West Coates (3 miles west), Merchiston (3 miles south-west), Queensferry (9 miles west), Southhouse (4 miles south), Gilmerton (4 miles south) and Shandon (3 miles south-west).
Landmarks near Lochend
Around Lochend, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Lochend Park, Leith Academy and 1 pub. You’ll also find London Street Primary School (1.1 miles west) and McDonald Road Library (0.8 miles west). The closest station to Lochend is Edinburgh Waverley station, about 1.3 miles south-west. Other landmarks nearby include St. James Centre (1.2 miles west) and Eastern General Hospital (0.8 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Whinny Hill and The New Leaf Co-op.
Should maintenance staff do it?
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. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.