Fire Stopping in Scottish Borders
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps across Scottish Borders, by CSCS-carded applicators. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Open linear gaps along the top of fire-resisting walls
- Builders’ foam or ordinary silicone in compartment walls
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
Fire stopping for businesses in Scottish Borders
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Doing it in-house
There’s also the paperwork. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and we will confirm the paperwork you need with the quote.
For a quick touch-up, site staff may be fine, but larger jobs are different: a specialist brings efficiency, a consistent finish and a 12-month guarantee.
How we handle fire stopping in Scottish Borders
Where pipes, cables and other services cross a compartment wall or floor, the opening around them has to be closed so fire and smoke can’t move between compartments. Our part is installing fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those openings and along linear gaps, where the specification calls for it. We work to the product’s tested detail for every seal rather than guesswork. We work on pipe penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are unsealed openings around new pipes and cables and expanding foam used as fire stopping. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: in Scottish Borders, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
For a building near Scottish Borders, we plan fire-rated sealing so it’s finished in one visit where possible. 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
- Scottish Borders (TD14)
- Region
- Scottish Borders
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Looking after the joints
Sealant joints are maintenance items, and how long they last depends on how they’re treated. We suggest:
- Arrange inspection before areas are covered up
- Ask which product is in place before decorating
- Put resealing into every M&E and fit-out package
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
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 get them dealt with.
A simple record of seal locations and products helps. It tells the next contractor exactly what to reinstate, and it helps at inspections.
Our process
Where the site stays busy, the work is phased so only one area is out of use at a time. Each section is protected, cleaned back and sealed before the next one starts. For work around Scottish Borders, we aim for one trip, which is why we ask for photographs and a full list first. External joints need a dry spell as well.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- Openings are measured and grouped by detail.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- Mineral wool or other backing is fitted where required.
- 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.
What we need from you
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
- Agree which areas must stay open
Getting a fixed quote
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. To take the first step, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us.
Advice
Cost factors for service penetrations
The price varies from site to site. It mainly depends on:
- The site’s rules and procedures
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- How accessible the joints are
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.
Sending details for a quote
However big the job, the same details help:
- When you need the work done
- The type of building and who uses it
- How the joints are reached, and at what height
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints and a fixed quote comes back to you. Where a site visit makes more sense, we’ll arrange one.
Fire stopping in Scottish Borders: the local picture
Scottish guidance (non-domestic Technical Handbook, clause 2.1.14) asks that penetrations match at least the fire resistance period of the element they pass through, with products tested for that end use. Where fire-rated sealant is specified, that’s what we install, to the tested detail.
Industrial units on estates such as Industrial Estate (2.7 miles south-east of Scottish Borders) often separate offices from warehouse space with fire-resisting walls, and new services through them need the specified seal.
Scottish Borders is in Scotland. We cover commercial sites throughout Scottish Borders, for single jobs and planned programmes alike. We work across 91 places in the Scottish Borders. For work in that direction, see our Edinburgh page, about 41 miles away.
Anyone looking for fire stopping in TD14 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. If your site is on West Loch Road, Reston Road and Creel Path or close by, we can quote for service penetrations. Close to Scottish Borders, our area also takes in Coldingham (1 mile south), St Abbs (1 mile north-east), Eyemouth (3 miles south-east), Reston (3 miles south-west) and Ayton (3 miles south).
What’s near Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders’s nearest station is Reston station, about 3 miles south-west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Eyemouth Museum (3 miles south-east) and Press Castle (2 miles west). For a walk, there’s Ayton Hill and Coldingham Loch.
Signs you need fire stopping in Scottish Borders
Physical damage is another reason seals stop doing their job. Maintenance work can knock a seal, cut it back for an extra cable or remove it with an old pipe.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Seals that don’t match their tested detail
- Hidden openings found during inspections
- Penetration schedules that need working through
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
On a hospital site such as Eyemouth Day Hospital, which lies south-east of Scottish Borders, fire-rated sealant goes in where the specification calls for it, with the work planned around the estates team’s permits.
Before you book anyone
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
Other services in Scottish Borders
Questions we’re asked in Scottish Borders
Does your area include sites such as Industrial Estate, near Scottish Borders?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Scottish Borders, Industrial Estate among them, are all within reach. Send details of the unit and the work through our quote form for a quick quote.
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Scottish Borders?
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 your applicators have CSCS cards?
Yes. If you need card details for site access, let us know and we’ll send them with the quote.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm with the quote.
Can the building stay open while you work?
Yes, as long as we plan it. We agree a sequence with your contact so just one area at a time is disrupted.
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. If anything suspect turns up, we stop until it’s tested.
How do I request a quote?
It works in four steps: send details, receive a fixed quote, we carry out the work, and it’s guaranteed. The first step only needs photographs and a postcode.
Building owners, agents and FMs in Scottish Borders
Building owners and managing agents use us on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios. One quote can cover more than one site, which keeps the paperwork simple.
Whether you are a managing agent, a property factor or an owner’s representative: send the details, accept a fixed quote, and we carry out and guarantee the work. Keys, access and contacts can be agreed in advance.