Fire Stopping in Oban
Fire stopping in Oban, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Fire seals cut back for extra cables and never reinstated
Fire stopping in Oban
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Why it’s worth doing now in Oban
Fire stopping is a regular point raised at inspections and handover. Late discoveries can delay handover while openings are reopened and resealed which is why earlier is better. In Scotland, wind-driven rain finds a failed joint quickly, and for a smaller place like Oban, a repair visit takes planning, so it’s better to act early.
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: what’s in scope, how we reach it, what’s specified and when it needs doing. Call for a quote and we’ll put a fixed figure on it.
What you get with us
- One contact handling all your sites
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
- Constructionline member
See our cost guide and how we’re accredited.
Fire stopping in Oban, done properly
Our applicators are CSCS-carded, and we are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member. We don’t hold a third-party fire-stopping installer certificate and we’d rather say that up front. We install the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail, and our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee. We work on pipe penetrations, service gaps in risers and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, and the failures we are asked to look at most are head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal and expanding foam used as fire stopping. Most enquiries from Oban 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.
Travel to smaller places like Oban is planned so every penetration is sealed on one trip. Photos of the gaps, the services and the wall or floor type help us bring the right products.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Oban (PA34)
- Wider area
- Argyll and Bute
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
After the work
Sealant joints are maintenance items, and how long they last depends on how they’re treated. Our advice:
- Settle who seals which penetrations at the start of a project
- Ask which product is in place before decorating
- Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
Add risers, plant rooms and ceiling voids to routine fire-stopping checks. Watch for cracked sealant, new services with no seal and openings that have grown, and report them promptly.
Specify fire stopping early on refits, not as an afterthought. Details can then be picked to suit the actual pipes, cables and ducts.
Oban: questions and answers
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Oban?
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. The detail is set by the designer and goes through the warrant process; we install the specified product to its tested detail.
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like Lorn and Islands Hospital?
Yes, provided the work is planned with the site’s estates team. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
Is Oban in your area?
Yes. We cover Oban, and you can ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over to get started.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Requirements differ from site to site, so list what you need, whether RAMS, insurance or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm with the quote.
What if there’s asbestos in the old mastic?
Managing asbestos is the dutyholder’s responsibility, so for older buildings we ask for the asbestos register first. Work pauses if suspect material is found, until it has been tested.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No, never. Overlaying old sealant is a frequent cause of early failure, so it all comes out first.
Do you hold CHAS accreditation?
Yes. We are CHAS accredited, we’re a Constructionline member and we use CSCS-carded applicators.
When something else is needed
A few problems need another trade or a different fix, and we say so rather than covering them up:
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
If you’re not sure, just call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we seal
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Linear gaps at wall heads
Service penetrations in Oban buildings
There are a good number of hotels within about 2 miles of Oban. 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. 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 products tested for that end use. Our part is installing the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail.
Hotels such as The Ranald Hotel, less than half a mile to the north of Oban, rely on fire-resisting walls between bedrooms and corridors, and refits that add services leave penetrations to seal where fire-rated sealant is specified. Hospital estates such as Lorn and Islands Hospital (0.7 miles south of Oban) are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail. Schools such as Oban High School often have new data and services installed during holidays, and penetrations through fire-resisting walls should be checked afterwards.
Oban is in Argyll and Bute. Any commercial site in Oban is covered. Across Argyll and Bute, 124 places are covered, Oban among them. Our Glasgow page has more on work in that area (60 miles or so).
Postcode districts covered here: PA34 for service penetrations. Streets here include Market Street, High Street and Argyll Square. Oban sits on or close to the A85 and A816, which helps when planning parking and deliveries for the job. Just outside Oban, we also work in Dunollie (1 mile north), Ganavan (2 miles north), Dunbeg (3 miles north), Kilmore (3 miles south-east) and Connel (4 miles north-east). As one of the bigger centres in Argyll and Bute, Oban has a broad mix of commercial, public and industrial buildings, and we cover them all. For island and remote sites, we plan travel and materials carefully, so the full address helps from the start.
Around Oban
Around Oban, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Caledonian Hotel and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in Oban itself: Oban station. Well-known places in the area include Oban Museum (0.6 miles north) and Dunollie Castle (1.2 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Lochan Dubh.
Cost factors for service penetrations
We price every job individually. The things that drive the figure:
- How accessible the joints are
- The total length or number of joints
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
- Distance, for remote addresses
What a job costs comes down to the quantity of joints, what has to come out first and how the joints are reached. Call for a fixed quote once you have the details.
What to include in your enquiry
We can often quote from photos and a few details. It helps to include:
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- Specification clauses that apply
- Access details, including height
- The type of building and who uses it
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 email us if you’d rather talk the job through.
From enquiry to sign-off
We follow your site rules from the start: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. With the paperwork done, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you. Tell us who will meet us and how to get in at your building near Oban. That goes into the plan alongside the quote.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- 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.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out.
- 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
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
Ask for a 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 will arrange one.
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Building owners, agents and FMs in Oban
Facilities managers want contractors who arrive with the paperwork sorted. Let us know the documents you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm them with the quote.
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor, on new build and refurbishment alike. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.