Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Stenhouse, Edinburgh
Need fire stopping in Stenhouse? It’s simple: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed.
- Head-of-wall gaps with no fire seal
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Fire-stopping items raised at inspection or handover
Fire stopping for businesses in Stenhouse
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
How we handle fire stopping in Stenhouse
On a fit-out or refurbishment, we follow the services contractors floor by floor. To price a package, ring 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with the schedule or marked-up drawings alongside the manufacturer’s details. Tell us what records you need and we will confirm with the quote. If you have seals disturbed by maintenance and left open and fire sealant pulled out of the opening, we can put it right. A specialist sealant contractor works differently from a general builder: in Stenhouse, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
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 Stenhouse, specified fire-rated sealant is installed as the maker’s tested detail describes.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. It covers how we prepared and applied the sealant, and if something we did falls short, we return to it.
- Where
- Stenhouse (EH11, EH12, EH14)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Cost factors for service penetrations
We price every job individually. The main factors are:
- The site’s rules and procedures
- Phasing around occupants
- Access and working height
- Joint width, depth and condition
The product called for affects the cost, and so does the preparation, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
Before you send an enquiry
However big the job, these details speed things up:
- How the joints are reached, and at what height
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- The product your specification calls for
- When you need the work done
To get a fixed quote, ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over with the site address and an outline of the work. Our quote form is another easy route.
What sealant work can’t fix
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’re upfront when that’s the case. These need a different solution:
- Walls or floors that aren’t fire-resisting to begin with
- 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’re not sure, just ring 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Service gaps in risers
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Cable penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Pipe penetrations
What happens if it’s left?
An open or wrongly sealed service penetration lets fire and smoke reach the next compartment much sooner than the building was designed for. While the openings can be reached, sealing them is normally straightforward. Left until ceilings are closed or a tenant moves in, the same work costs more access and more disruption. In a tenement or shared city building, water from a failed joint can reach other owners’ property. Acting early avoids disputes and bigger repairs.
Cost follows what’s involved: stripping out, preparation, sealing, access and phasing. Call for a fixed quote and we will explain how it’s made up.
Why clients in Stenhouse choose us
- Health and safety: CHAS accredited
- Workmanship guaranteed for 12 months
- Work carried out by CSCS-carded applicators
- One phone line for London, the South East and Scotland
Read our cost guide or how we’re accredited.
Doing it in-house
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are easy to get wrong without experience.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. Where it goes wrong is preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Fire-rated sealing for Stenhouse buildings
In Scotland, clause 2.1.14 of the non-domestic Technical Handbook expects service penetrations to keep at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor, using products tested for the way they’re used. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail. The 2 miles around Stenhouse include nine care or nursing homes. Care settings depend on compartmentation, so service penetrations made during maintenance or refurbishment need sealing with the specified product. Where that’s fire-rated sealant, we install it to the manufacturer’s tested detail.
For an estates team at a campus like Edinburgh Napier University, which lies south-east of Stenhouse, summer M&E works are normally followed by a round of penetration sealing. Refits at places like Edinburgh West Retail Park (to the south-east of Stenhouse) often reroute services through walls between units. Hospital estates such as Spire Murrayfield Hospital (0.8 miles north of Stenhouse) are divided into fire compartments, and any service penetration through them should be sealed to the specified, tested detail.
Stenhouse is about 2 miles west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. If you’re looking for fire stopping in Stenhouse, we can help. Stenhouse is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list for service penetrations.
We take on service penetrations across the EH11, EH12 and EH14 postcode area, whatever the building. Streets here include Ford's Road, Elfin Square and Whitson Road. Main routes into Stenhouse include the A71, useful when we plan access and materials. Sites close to Stenhouse are covered too, including Saughton (1 mile south-west), Carrick Knowe (1 mile north-west), Chesser (1 mile south-east), Parkhead (1 mile south) and Longstone (1 mile south). Nearby towns on our patch include 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 Stenhouse
Recent enquiries here include premises near Cross Keys Tavern, Gabrielle Keiller Library and Scotus Academy and the streets around them. You’ll also find Merchiston Castle School (1.4 miles south) and Saughton Park (under half a mile east). Stenhouse’s nearest station is Slateford station, roughly 0.8 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Corstorphine Hospital (0.8 miles north-west) and Craigcrook Castle (1.6 miles north). Green spaces nearby include Craiglockhart Hill and Dunsapie Loch.
Looking after the joints
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- Check risers and ceiling voids after each round of works
- Check with the data sheet before painting over fire sealant
- Foam or ordinary sealant is never a fire-seal repair
- Flag new cables with no seal around them
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.
Write fire stopping into the scope of any work crossing a compartment wall or floor. That way the opening is sealed while the trade and access are still there.
From enquiry to sign-off
Site rules come first: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. Once we’re cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. Work on a big city site in Scotland typically involves inductions and permits. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- We start with your penetration schedule, drawings or specification.
- We plan the sequence of floors, risers and voids with you.
- We compare every service penetration with its tested detail before sealing.
- Unsuitable material is removed and the opening cleaned 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.
Before we start on site
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Quotes
Photos, drawings or a schedule of the joints are often enough for a fixed quote. Where a site visit makes more sense, we will arrange one.
Advice
What else we do in Stenhouse
Your questions answered
Do you seal service penetrations in hotels around Stenhouse?
Yes, where fire-rated sealant is the specified product. Each seal follows the tested detail, and rooms are done in turn.
Can you work around term dates at a campus such as Edinburgh Napier University?
Yes. Education sites typically want the work in vacations or in phases during term, and we plan to suit. Let us know which documents your site asks for, and we will confirm them alongside the quote.
Do you need to see the site first?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a visit.
Can you fit around our working hours?
We’re in the office from 8am until 5pm, Monday to Friday. Tell us your site hours and access windows and the work will be fitted around them.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, with one point of contact.
What happens if old sealant might contain asbestos?
Asbestos is possible in some older mastics, particularly in buildings from before 2000. We check the asbestos register before cutting out old sealant in an older building, and work stops until any suspect material has been tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Let us know which documents the site needs, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we will confirm them with the quote.