Fire Stopping in Memsie
Sealant work in Memsie for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps, with a fixed quote first.
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
Fire stopping in Memsie
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Signs you need fire stopping in Memsie
Some seals fail because the wrong product went in: expanding foam or a general-purpose sealant pushed into a gap to tidy it. The opening looks sealed but has no fire test evidence behind it.
Most enquiries start with something like this:
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
At a healthcare site like Fraserburgh Hospital (2.6 miles north-east of Memsie), new services through compartment walls are a constant, and each needs the specified seal.
What your quote should include
- The named product and why it was chosen
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- Do they follow the manufacturer’s priming guidance?
Fire stopping in Memsie, done properly
Opened ceilings and riser doors often reveal service openings nobody sealed. If a specification already covers those walls and floors, we can reseal to it using the product and detail it sets out. With no specification in place, the first step sits with your designer or fire engineer, not with us. If you have fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back and seals that don’t match their tested detail, we can help, on small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows, cable penetrations and service gaps in risers alike. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Memsie from the first photos to the final walk-round, whether it’s one building or several.
In smaller Scottish places like Memsie, buildings with fire-resisting walls typically include schools, care homes, hotels and health centres. Those penetrations are closed with the product the specification names, built up as tested.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Place
- Memsie (AB43)
- Wider area
- Aberdeenshire
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Questions about Memsie
Is Kessock Road Industrial Estate, near Memsie, within your area?
Yes. Our area takes in Memsie and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Kessock Road Industrial Estate included. Send details of the unit and the work through our quote form for a quick quote.
Would you work within a site like Fraserburgh Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. We follow the site’s permits, sign-in and infection-control procedures in every area.
Do you guarantee your work?
Yes, for 12 months. If a joint fails because of how we installed it, we come back and put it right.
What do BS EN 1366-3 and BS EN 13501-2 mean?
The tests are BS EN 1366-3 for penetrations and BS EN 1366-4 for linear joints, and classification is to BS EN 13501-2. An EI 60 seal kept its integrity and insulation for 60 minutes as tested.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. We take on portfolio and planned maintenance work, planned site by site to suit how each building is used.
Will fire-rated sealant work on every penetration?
No. A sealant’s evidence covers set services, gaps and wall or floor types. Outside that, a different product is needed, specified by your designer.
Do you seal openings left by new services?
Yes. Send the schedule or marked-up drawings and the specified product details. Work can run area by area behind the M&E trades so areas aren’t left open.
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Cost factors for service penetrations
Quotes vary with the job. It mainly depends on:
- How much existing material needs removing
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
Quantities, awkward access and phased working all shape the price. So do site requirements such as inductions and permits, along with the time of year for external work.
Sending details for a quote
To price the job accurately, we need to understand the site. Useful things to include:
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- The postcode of the building
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Maintenance after handover
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Brief every trade that openings they make must be sealed
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
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. Details can then be picked to suit the actual pipes, cables and ducts, and installation follows the programme.
On site: what to expect
When we get to site, we report to your site contact and complete whatever induction the building runs. Floors, finishes and fittings next to the joints are covered before anything is cut or cleaned, and the work usually takes longer where risers, ceiling voids or occupied floors have to be worked through in sequence. Where we can, we combine work around Memsie with other jobs nearby, to make the most of each trip. Let us know if your dates have any give.
- The specification and schedule come first, so we know which details apply.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- 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.
- Anything outside the detail is reported to you rather than sealed.
What we need from you
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
- Send your site hours and access windows
Getting a fixed quote
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. Where a site visit makes more sense, we’ll arrange one.
Related advice
Work for main contractors and building owners
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed. We can agree access arrangements and keyholder contacts beforehand.
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor, on new build and refurbishment alike. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules.
Compartment walls and floors in Memsie
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.
Industrial units on estates such as Kessock Road Industrial Estate, 2.7 miles to the north-east of Memsie, often separate offices from warehouse space with fire-resisting walls, and new services through them need the specified seal. For a hotel such as Heath Hill Hotel, which lies north-west of Memsie, penetration seals are worth checking after any refit or services upgrade.
Memsie is about 3 miles south-west of Fraserburgh, in Aberdeenshire. Across the AB43 postcode area, it works the same way: details in, fixed quote out, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Memsie is one of 179 places we cover in Aberdeenshire for service penetrations. There’s a separate page for Aberdeen, about 35 miles away.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in AB43 gets the same process as the rest of our area: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. For a building on Cairn Close, Westcroft Close and Muir Road or nearby, we can quote for service penetrations. If your building is just outside Memsie, we cover Fraserburgh (3 miles north-east), Sandhaven (3 miles north), Broadsea (3 miles north), Pittulie (3 miles north) and Rosehearty (4 miles north-west). Nearby towns on our patch include Peterhead (14 miles south-east), Roanheads (14 miles south-east), Clerkhill (14 miles south-east), Port Henry (14 miles south-east), Mintlaw (9 miles south) and Longside (10 miles south-east).
Landmarks near Memsie
A little further out are Fraserburgh Heritage Centre (3.4 miles north-east) and Fraserburgh Hospital (2.7 miles north-east). Not far away are Mormond Hill.
What the job involves on each surface
Masonry and concrete
Core-drilled holes are neat; broken-out ones rarely are. Each gap is measured where it is widest so we know it sits within the tested range.
Metal pipes
Heat travels along metal pipework. We follow whatever the detail requires and flag anything we can’t match.