Fire stopping and compartmentation for Edinburgh buildings
Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town are full of listed tenements, many used as short-term lets, which need interlinked alarms that meet Scottish requirements without harming historic interiors.
Compartmentation is what stops a fire in one flat or room from becoming a fire in the whole building. It depends on walls, floors and ceilings that keep their fire resistance where pipes, cables and ducts pass through them. Every time a contractor drills a hole and does not seal it properly, the building gets a little less safe.
A compartmentation survey goes into risers, ceiling voids, loft spaces and service cupboards to find and photograph breaches. Each one is located on a plan, described, and given a priority. Remedial fire stopping is then carried out using tested products installed to the manufacturer's details, and each seal is photographed and labelled.
The rules that apply in Edinburgh
Scotland does not use the English higher-risk building regime. External wall risk on residential buildings is assessed through the Scottish Government's Single Building Assessment, which looks at the whole building rather than the wall alone.
What is included
- Intrusive compartmentation survey with photos and plans
- Breach register ranked by priority
- Fire stopping with tested and certified products
- Before and after photographs for every seal
- Penetration labelling and seal register
- Fire damper and cavity barrier checks
Buildings we work on in Edinburgh
- Blocks of flats
- HMO conversions
- Hotels
- Care homes
- Offices
- Student accommodation
Areas we cover from Edinburgh
From Edinburgh we also cover Kirkcaldy (11 miles), Dunfermline (13 miles), Livingston (14 miles), Falkirk (23 miles) and St Andrews (31 miles). If your building is not in a listed town, we still cover it: every enquiry for fire stopping and compartmentation in Scotland is handled the same way.