Fire-rated sealing and fire stopping in Tomatin, Highland
Need fire stopping in Tomatin? It’s simple: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed.
- Unsealed openings around new pipes and cables
- Expanding foam used as fire stopping
- Damaged fire seals in risers and voids
Fire stopping for businesses in Tomatin
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Your questions answered
Which Scottish guidance covers penetration seals in Tomatin?
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 you design a fire-stopping scheme for our building in Tomatin?
No, that sits with the designer, fire engineer or building control. We install what’s specified, to the product’s tested detail.
Can you fit around our working hours?
Give us your site hours and any access windows in your enquiry, and we’ll plan around them. Our office runs Monday to Friday, 8am until 5pm.
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.
Do you need to see the site first?
It depends on the job. Simple work can often be priced from photos, and bigger or more complex jobs usually get a visit.
Can you follow the specification on our project?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and the quote will be based on it.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. We take on portfolio and planned maintenance work, with each site phased to suit its occupants.
How we handle fire stopping in Tomatin
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 job is fitting fire-rated and intumescent sealant at those service penetrations, and along linear gaps, where it is the specified product. Each seal follows the manufacturer’s tested detail rather than guesswork. We work on cable penetrations, small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows and joints between fire-resisting walls and floors, and what we’re called in for most is service penetrations left open after M&E works and openings found when ceilings come down for a refit. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, the work in Tomatin is the same: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
Around smaller places such as Tomatin, 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.
Building owners and contractors get the same cover: a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. It doesn’t extend to damage, faults in the building or work by others, and we are upfront about that.
- Location
- Tomatin (IV13)
- Wider area
- Highland
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
From enquiry to sign-off
We follow your site rules from the start: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. With the paperwork done, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. For a building near Tomatin, directions, keys and a contact on the day are worth sorting early. We’ll confirm the plan with the fixed quote.
- We ask for the product and detail your designer has specified.
- We sort the openings by the detail each one needs.
- Old or wrong materials are cut out.
- 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.
What we need from you
- Move anything stored against the joints
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Agree which areas must stay open
Getting a fixed quote
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
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Quoting for work in Tomatin
These are the things that shape the price:
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- How much there is to seal
- The size and state of each joint
Larger quantities, tricky access or phasing all shape the price. So do site requirements such as inductions and permits.
Details that help us quote
There’s no need for a formal survey. A few details are enough to get going:
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- Clear photos of the problem areas
- The site address and postcode
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
What we can’t put right
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It isn’t the answer for:
- Large openings beyond what any sealant detail covers
- Fire risk assessments, a job for a competent assessor
- Writing the fire-stopping specification
If in doubt, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we’ll say what we think.
What we seal
- Service gaps in risers
- Cable penetrations
- Linear gaps at wall heads
- Small duct penetrations where the tested detail allows
- Pipe penetrations
- Joints between fire-resisting walls and floors
Compartment walls and floors in Tomatin
Scotland has its own building standards: the non-domestic Technical Handbook (clause 2.1.14) says service penetrations should be fire stopped to at least the fire resistance duration of the wall or floor, and products should be tested for their end use. Our part is installing the specified fire-rated sealant to its tested detail.
Wherever the building is near Tomatin, design and sign-off of fire stopping sit with the designer, fire engineer or building control; we install what has been specified. Around Tomatin, we install fire-rated and intumescent sealant to the product’s tested detail wherever it is the specified product.
Tomatin is about 13 miles south-east of Inverness, in Highland. We cover Tomatin, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Tomatin is one of 256 places in Highland on our list. Our Aberdeen page has more on work in that area (71 miles or so).
Commercial sites across IV13 are covered for service penetrations. For a building on Old Mill Road, Ard Park and Juniper Drive or nearby, send details and we’ll quote for service penetrations. Nearby places we also cover include Carrbridge (8 miles south-east), Farr (8 miles north-west), Duthil (9 miles east), Milton of Leys (10 miles north-west) and Boat of Garten (11 miles south-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Inverness (13 miles north-west), Cradlehall (12 miles north-west), Merkinch (14 miles north-west), Hilton (12 miles north-west), Aviemore (11 miles south-east) and Crown (13 miles north-west). Where a site is remote or on an island, travel and materials need planning ahead, so the full address helps from the start.
Landmarks near Tomatin
Green spaces nearby include Loch Moy.
After the work
Sealant joints are maintenance items, and their life depends on movement, exposure, cleaning and use. We suggest:
- Keep general-purpose fillers away from compartment walls
- Include service cupboards in routine inspections
- Get seals inspected before ceilings and boxing close
- Leave fire sealant to cure fully before covering it
Allow the manufacturer’s stated cure time before boxing in or decorating. Some fire-rated sealants accept paint and some don’t, and the data sheet says which.
The simplest way to keep compartment walls intact is to plan fire stopping into every job that crosses them. That way the opening is sealed while the trade and access are still there, not months later.
Should maintenance staff do it?
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. The usual problems come from preparation: sealing over old material, sealing onto damp or dusty surfaces, or a product that can’t take the movement.
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class, which is what makes a joint last.
Building owners, agents and FMs in Tomatin
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. The work is planned around how the building runs, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Sites in Tomatin can sit alongside others in a wider programme.