Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Newington, Edinburgh
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps across Newington, by CSCS-carded applicators. CHAS accredited and fully insured.
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
- Fire stopping installed outside its tested range
- Unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings
Fire stopping across Newington
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
About our fire stopping in Newington
We are commercial sealant applicators, CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, with CSCS-carded applicators on site. We hold no third-party fire-stopping installer certificate. What we offer is careful installation of the specified sealant to its tested detail, with a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. Most enquiries involve fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated and fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover, on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, cable penetrations and service gaps in risers. Most enquiries from Newington start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook says a service penetration ought to match, as a minimum, how long the wall or floor resists fire. For a building in Newington, specified fire-rated sealant is installed as the maker’s tested detail describes.
We stand by our work: 12 months, guaranteed. It covers how we prepared and applied the sealant, and we come back if anything isn’t right.
- Place
- Newington (EH9, EH8, EH16)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
When it isn’t the sealant
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we are upfront when that’s the case. These need a different solution:
- Approving the work on behalf of building control
- Gaps in walls that were never built as compartment walls
- Reviewing a building’s overall fire safety
Not sure which it is? You can phone 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll tell you honestly.
Where we work in Newington
- Pipe penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Cable penetrations
When to call us in Newington
Fire stopping can get squeezed at the end of a programme, or done by whoever is on site. That is how unsuitable products and improvised details end up in compartment walls.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Openings found when ceilings come down for a refit
- Openings left by services added after handover
For a hospital such as Astley Ainslie Hospital (1 mile south-west of Newington), penetration sealing is normally phased ward by ward, with infection-control rules agreed first.
What to look for in a quote
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
Also near Newington
What else we do in Newington
Owners, agents and contractors
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. We’re fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
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.
Newington: questions and answers
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Newington?
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. Design sits with the designer and the verifier; installation to the tested detail is our part.
Will you work in a care home in Newington without moving residents out?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Any site rules, from signing in to infection control, are agreed before we start.
What do you charge?
We don’t publish prices, because every site is different. With photographs or drawings, we can give you a fixed quote.
Do you guarantee your work?
Yes, for 12 months. If our installation fails in that time, we return and fix it.
Do you work in Newington?
Yes. We cover Newington, within our coverage of Greater London, South East England and Scotland. For a quote, ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
How do you deal with asbestos in old sealant?
The duty to manage asbestos sits with the building’s dutyholder, so for older buildings we ask for the asbestos register first. If anything suspect turns up, we stop until it’s tested.
Does weather matter for sealant work?
For external joints, yes. Sealant needs a dry joint and a temperature within the product’s range, so damp, frosty or very cold days can stop external work. Internal work is rarely affected.
How the quote is worked out
The price varies from site to site. Expect it to depend on:
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- How much there is to seal
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
The specified product makes a difference, as does the preparation each joint needs, from cutting out to priming and backing rod. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
Before you send an enquiry
For an accurate fixed quote, we need to understand the site. Send us:
- Any specification or named product
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- The postcode of the building
- The type of building and who uses it
Send us photographs, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
On site: what to expect
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we’ll plan around them. On the day, the work area is kept contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Tell us the rules and we’ll work to them.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- 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.
- We walk the completed areas with you and confirm the records agreed at quote stage.
What we need from you
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
Quotes
The quickest route to a quote is a few photos and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email to discuss it first.
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What the job involves on each surface
Drylining partitions
Service holes through plasterboard are frequently oversized or ragged. An oversized hole may be outside the sealant’s range and we’ll tell you what the detail says instead.
Risers and ceiling voids
Voids hide a lot of unsealed openings. We work through the areas on your schedule methodically, and note anything we find that isn’t on it.
Fire stopping in Newington: the local picture
Five care or nursing homes sit less than 2 miles from Newington. Care homes rely on fire-resisting walls and floors, and maintenance work that breaks through them leaves openings to seal. We install fire-rated sealant to the tested detail where it is specified. Newington has a good number of hotels close by, all within 2 miles. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
At a university such as University of Edinburgh (0.6 miles north-west of Newington), labs, lecture blocks and residences are re-serviced often, so penetration seals are best checked after M&E work. Offices at parks like Blackford Business Park (to the south-west of Newington) are re-cabled with each new tenant, and compartment walls need sealing afterwards to the tested detail.
Newington is about 1 mile south-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Newington sits inside our coverage and the rest of Edinburgh, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. We work across 174 places in Edinburgh.
Work on service penetrations is covered throughout EH9, EH8 and EH16, whatever the building. Buildings on Lauder Road, Cobden Road and Meadow Lane are within our area. Close to Newington, our area also takes in St Leonard's (1 mile north-east), Burgh Muir (1 mile south-west), Sciennes (1 mile west), Mayfield (1 mile south-east) and The Grange (1 mile west). Further afield, our area takes in Leith (3 miles north), North Leith (3 miles north), Queensferry (9 miles west), Timber Bush (3 miles north), Southhouse (3 miles south) and Newhaven (3 miles north).
What’s near Newington
Around Newington, our work takes us to commercial buildings near National Museums Scotland Library, The Meadows and Duddingston Kirk. Also close by are Sciennes Primary School (less than half a mile west), 1 pub (less than half a mile north) and Royal Blind School (0.5 miles south). The closest station to Newington is Edinburgh Waverley station, roughly 1.1 miles north-west. A little further out are Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (0.9 miles south-east) and Deaconess Hospital (0.6 miles north). The countryside around Newington includes Salisbury Crags and The New Leaf Co-op.