Fire stopping in Old Craighall
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps in Old Craighall and across East Lothian. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Fire stopping near Old Craighall
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Aftercare for building managers
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Record which product was used where
- Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package
Don’t patch a fire-rated seal with anything outside its tested detail. A repair should use the original product, installed the same way.
Make reporting new openings part of every permit to work in service areas. It costs little and catches breaches early.
Fire stopping in Old Craighall
For main contractors, our fire stopping package slots in after the M&E trades have finished in an area. We work from your penetration schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we’ll confirm with the quote. Site teams most often ask us about expanding foam used as fire stopping and open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls, across cable penetrations, pipe penetrations and linear gaps at wall heads. For commercial sealant work in Old Craighall, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
Around smaller places such as Old Craighall, compartment walls and floors tend to be in schools, hotels, care homes and community buildings. Those penetrations are closed with the product the specification names, built up as tested.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months, in Old Craighall as everywhere else we work. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Where
- Old Craighall (EH21)
- Region
- East Lothian
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
When it isn’t the sealant
A few problems need another trade or a different fix, and we say so rather than covering them up:
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
- Signing off or certifying a building’s fire stopping
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.
Where we work in Old Craighall
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
How a job runs
In a busy building, we agree a sequence with your contact so the disruption stays in one area at once. Each area is protected, prepared and sealed, then handed back before the next one starts. Travel to smaller Scottish places like Old Craighall is planned so the job is finished in one visit where possible, which is why we ask for photographs and a full list first. External joints need a dry spell as well.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- Access, permits and the order of areas are agreed with the site team.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Foam, ordinary sealant and debris come out 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.
Getting the site ready
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
Ask for a quote
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and we will put a fixed quote together. To get it moving, call 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
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Cost factors for service penetrations
To price the job, we consider:
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
No two sites price the same: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. A fixed quote follows once we understand the job.
What to include in your enquiry
There’s no need for a formal survey. These details are enough to start:
- Clear photos of the problem areas
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Approximate linear metres or a joint schedule
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
For a fixed quote, phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. Our quote form is another easy route.
How the job changes by surface
Plastic pipes
Plastic waste pipes through slabs come up often. Whether sealant alone is acceptable depends entirely on the tested detail, and we won’t substitute it for a specified collar.
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.
Commercial clients in Old Craighall
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we make supplier vetting simple. We are fully insured, and our insurance certificate can go with the quote.
Questions we are asked in Old Craighall
Is hospital work, at somewhere like Shawfair Park Hospital, something you do?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
Do you work on fire-rated sealing in hotels in Old Craighall?
Yes, where fire-rated sealant is the specified product. We match the product to the wall or floor and the services, and say if something other than sealant is needed.
How do we ask for a quote?
You can use the quote form on this site; alternatively, phone 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form. Photos, drawings or a joint schedule help us quote quickly.
Can the sealant be colour-matched?
It depends on the product. Some ranges are wide, others limited, so we will confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
Do you need to see the site first?
It depends on the job. Simple work can often be priced from photographs, while larger or less clear jobs get a site visit first.
Are you insured?
Yes. We’re fully insured, including public liability cover.
Are you CHAS accredited?
Yes. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, which helps with supplier vetting.
Compartment walls and floors in Old Craighall
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, and products should be tested for their end use. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail. Old Craighall has several hotels close by, all within 2 miles. 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.
At a college such as Edinburgh College - Milton Road Campus (1.9 miles north-west of Old Craighall), checking penetration seals after summer M&E works is good practice. On estates like Inveresk Mills Industrial Park, which lies north of Old Craighall, the wall between office and warehouse is often fire-resisting, and cables through it need the specified seal. On a hospital site such as Shawfair Park Hospital (1.5 miles south-west of Old Craighall), fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it, with the work planned around the estates team’s permits.
Old Craighall is about 1 mile south of Musselburgh, in East Lothian. Our applicators travel to Old Craighall for work on service penetrations. Across East Lothian, 48 places are covered, Old Craighall among them. We also cover Edinburgh, some 6 miles away.
We take on service penetrations across the EH21 postcode area. Streets here include Queen Margaret University Way, Old Craighall Road and Milne Meadows, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. If your building is just outside Old Craighall, we cover Millerhill (1 mile south-west), Shawfair (1 mile west), Whitecraig (1 mile east), Newton Village (1 mile south-west) and Newcraighall (1 mile north-west). A short drive away, we cover Haddington (11 miles east), Tranent (5 miles east), Prestonpans (4 miles north-east), Cockenzie and Port Seton (5 miles north-east), Longniddry (7 miles north-east) and Gullane (12 miles north-east).
What’s near Old Craighall
The nearest railway station is Musselburgh station, roughly 0.8 miles north. Nearby you will also find Musselburgh Doll Museum (1.4 miles north) and Dalkeith Palace (1.6 miles south). The countryside around Old Craighall includes Duddingston Loch and Whinny Hill.