Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Newbridge, Edinburgh
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Newbridge. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
- Non-fire-rated filler around services
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
Fire stopping in Newbridge
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Fire stopping in Newbridge
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 the details over with the schedule or marked-up drawings and the specified product data. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. We work on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, linear gaps at wall heads and small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows, and the failures we’re asked to look at most are service penetrations left open after M&E works and unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, the work in Newbridge is the same: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Refurbishments in small hotels, schools and care homes around places like Newbridge can leave gaps around new services. We fit the specified fire-rated sealant as its published detail shows and raise it if another product is needed.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months, wherever the site is. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Where
- Newbridge (EH28)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
When to bring in a specialist
Putting right a botched joint often costs more than sealing it well at the start, since all of it has to come out and the faces be cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
Quoting for work in Newbridge
Each job is priced on its own details. The main factors are:
- How accessible the joints are
- How much there is to seal
- Location, for remote and island sites
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
The price depends on how many linear metres there are, how much old material needs removing and how the joints are reached. Call for a quote once you have the details.
Details that help us quote
However big the job, the same details help:
- When you need the work done
- The product your specification calls for
- What the building is and how it’s used
- The site address and postcode
Every job follows the same four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. The first step is to call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us with what you know.
On site: what to expect
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. For a building near Newbridge, directions, keys and a contact on the day are worth sorting early. We’ll confirm the plan with the fixed quote.
- 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.
- We gun the sealant in to the specified depth around each service and tool it.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Before we start on site
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Let building users know which areas are affected
Request a quote
For a fixed quote, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. Our quote form is another easy route.
Advice
For managing agents and facilities managers
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios. One quote can cover more than one site, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor, on new build and refurbishment alike. Programme, specification and site rules come first.
What the job involves on each surface
Plastic pipes
In a fire, plastic pipework melts away and leaves an opening. Small sizes are sometimes covered by an intumescent sealant detail, but many need a collar or wrap. We check the pipe material and diameter against the detail before we start.
Metal pipes
Sealant details often cover copper and steel pipework. The tested detail sets the pipe size range, gap, depth and whether insulation can stay on, so we check each one.
Towns and villages near Newbridge
What else we do in Newbridge
Questions about Newbridge
Can you work around term dates at a campus such as Heriot-Watt University?
Yes, holiday working periods are the norm on campus jobs. Let us know which documents your site asks for, and we will confirm them alongside the quote.
Which Scottish guidance covers penetration seals in Newbridge?
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. We install what has been specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail, while design and approval sit with the designer and the verifier.
How do I request a quote?
There are four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. The first step only needs photographs and a postcode.
Is any job too small?
Single areas, one-off repairs and whole buildings are all quoted the same way: details, then a fixed price, then sealing, then a 12-month guarantee.
How soon can the area be used again?
That comes down to the sealant and the temperature. Some products skin over quickly but need longer to cure fully, so we will confirm the curing time on the day.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No. We cut the old material out and clean the joint back before sealing, because fresh silicone will not bond with aged silicone.
When can you be on site?
The office is staffed Monday to Friday, from 8am until 5pm. Tell us your site hours and access windows and the work will be fitted around them.
When something else is needed
Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Construction that lacks the fire resistance the seal relies on
Not sure which it is? You can speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we will tell you honestly.
Where we work in Newbridge
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Fire-rated sealing for Newbridge buildings
The area within 2 miles of Newbridge holds a 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. In Scotland, clause 2.1.14 of the non-domestic Technical Handbook expects service penetrations to keep at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor, with products tested for that end use. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail.
At a university such as Heriot-Watt University (3.7 miles south-east of Newbridge), labs, lecture blocks and residences are re-serviced often, so penetration seals are best checked after M&E work. For a building such as Kirkliston Parish Church, new heating or data runs are the usual reason penetrations need sealing. Hotels like Norton House Hotel, 1 mile to the south-east of Newbridge, are refurbished in phases, and each phase can open up compartment walls.
Newbridge is about 5 miles north-east of Livingston, in Edinburgh. Our applicators travel to Newbridge for work on service penetrations, handled exactly as we handle every other area. Newbridge is one of 174 places we cover in Edinburgh for service penetrations. We also cover Edinburgh, around 8 miles from Newbridge.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in EH28 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Buildings on Bridge Street, Edinburgh Road and Chariot Drive are within our area. We also cover Kirkliston (1 mile north), West Clifton (2 miles south-west), Wilkieston (2 miles south), Linburn (3 miles south) and Winchburgh (3 miles north-west). Further afield, our area takes in Edinburgh (8 miles east), Leith (10 miles east), Bonnington (9 miles east), Greenside (9 miles east), Broughton (9 miles east) and Bellevue (8 miles east).
What’s near Newbridge
Newbridge’s nearest station is Edinburgh Gateway station, roughly 3.4 miles east. Well-known places in the area include Illieston Castle (2.1 miles south-west) and Broxburn Community Museum (3.1 miles west). The countryside around Newbridge includes Dundas Loch.