Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Slateford, Edinburgh
Fire-rated and intumescent sealing of service penetrations and linear gaps throughout Slateford and nearby, by CSCS-carded applicators. CHAS accredited and fully insured.
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Fire-rated sealant that has cracked or shrunk back
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
Fire stopping across Slateford
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
What we can’t put right
Before quoting, we check that sealant is the right answer. It won’t put right:
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Openings that need collars, wraps, batts or boards rather than sealant
- Deciding what a wall or floor needs, which belongs to the designer
If you are not sure, just give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Where we work in Slateford
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
How we handle fire stopping in Slateford
On a fit-out or refurbishment, we follow the services contractors floor by floor. To price a package, call 01277 525 020 or email us with the schedule or marked-up drawings. Tell us what records you need and we will confirm with the quote. We work on joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, pipe penetrations and linear gaps at wall heads, and what we are called in for most is unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab and seals disturbed by maintenance and left open. For commercial sealant work in Slateford, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
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 Slateford, specified fire-rated sealant is installed as the maker’s tested detail describes.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. It’s a plain promise: if our work fails within that year, we put it right.
- Where
- Slateford (EH14, EH11, EH10)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Surface by surface
Linear joints
Head-of-wall gaps, slab edges and wall junctions are linear joints. Their tested detail, under BS EN 1366-4, sets the width, depth, backing and movement allowed and the installation has to fit inside those limits.
Metal pipes
Heat travels along metal pipework, and the tested detail may ask for insulation beyond the wall. We follow whatever the detail requires and flag anything we can’t match.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Some joints are best left to specialists: for instance fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
There’s also the paperwork. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and our CSCS-carded applicators are used to working under those rules.
Maintenance after handover
Your facilities or cleaning team can help the joints last. Share these points with them:
- Keep general-purpose fillers away from compartment walls
- Include service cupboards in routine inspections
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Flag new cables with no seal around them
After every round of M&E works, check that the openings created have been sealed. A short check at the end of each job saves a long hunt later.
Specify fire stopping early on refits, not as an afterthought. The designer can then choose details that suit the services planned, and installation follows the programme.
Do you need fire stopping in Slateford?
On a busy project, programme pressure can mean fire stopping is rushed or left to whichever trade is closest. That is when untested combinations creep in.
Any of the following is a good reason to get the joints checked over:
- Snag lists that include open service penetrations
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Improvised or mixed-product fire seals
Workshops and IT rooms at colleges like Edinburgh College - Sighthill Campus (to the west of Slateford) are re-serviced often, leaving penetrations to seal.
What to look for in a quote
- Who will actually carry out the work
- How joint depth will be controlled
- Do they follow the manufacturer’s priming guidance?
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
Also in Slateford
FAQs: Slateford
Can you seal around new services in a hotel near Slateford?
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.
Can work in a care setting near Slateford go ahead while residents are there?
Yes. We agree rooms and times with the manager and work a few areas at a time. Tell us about any infection-control or safeguarding requirements and we’ll work to them.
What happens if old sealant might contain asbestos?
Managing asbestos is the dutyholder’s responsibility, so we will ask for the register before work on an older building. Work pauses if suspect material is found, until it has been tested.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No, never. Sealing over old material is one of the classic causes of early joint failure, so it all comes out first.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and the quote will be based on it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Will you quote for a small job?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Photos and a description are enough to start.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, and you deal with one contact throughout.
Compartment walls and floors in Slateford
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 proprietary products, intumescent ones included, tested for their end use. Our part is installing the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail. The area within 2 miles of Slateford holds a good number of hotels. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
Theatres, wards and plant rooms at sites like Royal Edinburgh Hospital (0.9 miles east of Slateford) all have compartment walls crossed by services. At a university such as Edinburgh Napier University, which lies south-west of Slateford, labs, lecture blocks and residences are re-serviced often, so penetration seals are best checked after M&E work.
Slateford is about 2 miles south-west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. We cover commercial sites throughout Slateford. Across Edinburgh, 174 places are covered, Slateford among them.
If you need fire stopping in EH14, EH11 and EH10, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Among the streets we cover are Appin Lane, Cowan Road and Ford's Road. Sites close to Slateford are covered too, including Chesser (1 mile west), Gorgie (1 mile north-east), Polwarth (1 mile east), Shandon (1 mile north-east) and Redhall (1 mile south-west). Further afield, our area takes in Leith (5 miles north-east), Bonnington (4 miles north-east), Greenside (3 miles north-east), Broughton (3 miles north-east), Bellevue (3 miles north-east) and Silvermills (3 miles north-east).
Near you in Slateford
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Iain Tomlin School of Music, Firrhill High School and Saughton Park and the streets around them. Nearby too are Gabrielle Keiller Library (1.7 miles north) and Cross Keys Tavern (0.5 miles south-west). There’s a railway station in Slateford itself: Slateford station. Other landmarks nearby include Craiglockhart Hydropathic (0.7 miles south) and Waverley Mall (2.6 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Dunsapie Loch and The New Leaf Co-op.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We begin with a short walk round with whoever looks after the building, agreeing which joints are in scope, where to start and what must stay open. Then we strip out anything that has failed, prepare every joint and seal it. Give us the access times and building rules for your premises in Slateford, and we’ll plan the work to suit, phased where areas need to stay in use.
- 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.
- Fire-rated or intumescent sealant goes in around the services and is tooled off.
- Completed areas are checked with you, with the records agreed when we quoted.
Getting the site ready
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
Ask for a quote
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and we’ll put a fixed quote together. To get it moving, call 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.