Fire Stopping in Southhouse
Looking for fire stopping in Southhouse? It’s simple: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed.
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
Fire stopping for Southhouse sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
How we handle fire stopping in Southhouse
Sealant is the specified answer for plenty of openings, such as metal pipes, cables and some small ducts where the detail covers them. Larger openings and some plastic pipes call for collars, wraps, batts or boards instead. If the detail calls for something other than sealant, we say so rather than force sealant into it. We work on cable penetrations, pipe penetrations and service gaps in risers, and the failures we’re asked to look at most are openings left by services added after handover and unsealed penetrations discovered above suspended ceilings. Most enquiries from Southhouse start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we look at the rest while we are there and tell you what we find.
Tenement blocks and converted stone buildings in Scottish cities often hide old service routes through walls and floors. Before sealing, we confirm the wall or floor and the services passing through, so the product matches the detail, and design questions go to the designer or verifier.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, in Southhouse 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
- Southhouse (EH17, EH16)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Common problems we fix in Southhouse
Linear gaps fail where a fire-resisting wall meets a slab, soffit or another wall. Movement in the frame or slab can open the joint. Linear joint details set a width range and movement capability, and the seal has to sit within them.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Unsealed joints where partitions meet the slab
- Old intumescent sealant that has split away
- Service penetrations left open after M&E works
- Seals disturbed by maintenance and left open
Hospital estates such as Ellen's Glen Community Hospital (0.7 miles north-east of Southhouse) are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail.
What your quote should include
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- How joint depth will be controlled
- Whether their applicators hold CSCS cards
Why deal with it now?
Leave a penetration open and smoke and fire can cross into the next compartment far earlier than intended. Putting it right is normally a modest job when the openings are accessible. Left until ceilings are closed or a tenant moves in, the same work costs more access and more disruption. Failed sealant in a shared building in Southhouse can affect more than one owner. Acting early avoids disputes and bigger repairs.
No two sites price the same: joint size, product, access and site hours all play a part. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Why clients in Southhouse choose us
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- Clear, fixed quotes
- Our applicators hold CSCS cards
- Workmanship guaranteed for 12 months
Should maintenance staff do it?
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
When it isn’t the sealant
Before quoting, we check that sealant is the right answer. It won’t put right:
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
If you’re not sure, just call 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we will give you a straight answer.
Surfaces we seal
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Service gaps in risers
Building owners, agents and FMs in Southhouse
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor. Programme, specification and site rules come first, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we’re straightforward to vet for your supplier list. Our insurance certificate can be sent along with the quote.
Questions about Southhouse
Can you work in a care home near Southhouse with residents in?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Noise and disruption are kept to a minimum.
How do Scotland’s building standards affect fire-rated sealant in Southhouse?
Under Scotland’s non-domestic Technical Handbook (clause 2.1.14), service penetrations should keep at least the wall or floor’s fire resistance duration, using products tested for their end use. We install what has been specified, to the manufacturer’s tested detail, while design and approval sit with the designer and the verifier.
Is Southhouse in your area?
Yes. We take on work across Southhouse.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, and you deal with one contact throughout.
Will you quote for a small job?
Single areas, one-off repairs and whole buildings are all quoted the same way: details, then a fixed price, then sealing, then a 12-month guarantee.
What do you charge?
That depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a quote and we’ll price it properly.
How long does a typical visit take?
It depends on the scope, but the work normally takes anything from one day to a planned run of visits, depending on the number of seals and the access. Larger or phased jobs take longer, and we’ll give you a timescale with the quote.
Service penetrations in Southhouse buildings
There are two care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Southhouse. Where new services have gone through compartment walls in a care setting, the gaps need the specified product. We install fire-rated sealant to the tested detail where it is specified. Several hotels sit less than 2 miles from Southhouse. Hotels are divided into compartments, and refurbishments that add pipes and cables through bedroom and corridor walls leave gaps to close.
Industrial units on estates such as Eldin Industrial Estate, 1 mile south-east of Southhouse, often separate offices from warehouse space with fire-resisting walls, and new services through them need the specified seal. For a school such as Gracemount High School, penetration sealing fits best at the end of the summer works.
Southhouse is about 4 miles south-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Commercial clients in Southhouse can call on us for service penetrations. Southhouse is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list.
We cover the EH17 and EH16 postcode districts for service penetrations. If your site is on Tor Lane, Soutra Road and Mansion Lane or close by, we can quote for service penetrations. Just outside Southhouse, we also work in Gracemount (1 mile north), Kaimes (1 mile west), Howden Hall (1 mile north-west), Alnwickhill (1 mile north-west) and Ellen's Glen (1 mile north-east). A short drive away, we cover Edinburgh (4 miles north-west), Leith (6 miles north), Bonnington (5 miles north), Greenside (4 miles north), Broughton (4 miles north) and Bellevue (4 miles north).
What’s near Southhouse
We work on buildings around Drum Park and Liberton Parish Church. For rail, the closest station is Shawfair station, about 2.8 miles north-east. Nearby you’ll also find Liberton Hospital (0.6 miles north) and Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (1.8 miles north). For a walk, there’s Blackford Hill and Duddingston Loch.
Our process
A typical day starts with protection: tape along each joint edge and covers over finishes, stock and equipment close by. On site, the work normally takes a single visit for a short list of penetrations, or a phased programme for a whole building, and we clear our waste as we work. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- First we go through the drawings, schedule or specification for the seals and raise any questions before we price.
- Every penetration is compared with its detail: wall or floor type, service, gap size and depth.
- Anything that doesn’t belong in the opening, such as expanding foam or general-purpose filler, is removed.
- We fit the backing the detail asks for, to the stated depth.
- We apply the specified sealant to the depth and around the services as the detail shows.
- Openings that need a collar, wrap, batt or other product are flagged to you rather than filled with sealant.
Getting the site ready
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Let building users know which areas are affected
Quotes
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, ring 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.