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Commercial sealant contractors in Na h-Eileanan Siar

Sealant work for contractors, FMs, managing agents and building owners in all 87 towns and villages of Na h-Eileanan Siar, with failed joints always cut out and a fixed quote before we start.

Need sealant contractors in Na h-Eileanan Siar?

Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.

Send your details 01277 525 020

Services in Na h-Eileanan Siar

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How commercial sealant contractors works in Na h-Eileanan Siar

Mastic Doctor has been sealing joints for businesses and contractors since 2005, and the paperwork side is in order: we’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, our applicators hold CSCS cards, and we carry five million pounds of public liability insurance. Let us know which site documents you need and they’ll be confirmed with the quote. Most enquiries involve external beads that have gone brittle and cracked and frame sealant that has cracked, shrunk or pulled away, on washrooms and tea points, movement joints in walls and floors and kitchen worktops and splashbacks.

Occupied buildings need a little choreography. We sign and contain the area we’re in, keep walkways clear and move on in phases so staff and visitors can carry on around us.

Send details through our quote form, or ask for a site visit.
We diagnose the cause of failure and price a fixed scope.
Work is phased around your occupiers where areas need to stay in use.
Every failed bead is removed rather than covered.
A suitable product for each joint goes in at the right depth and is tooled.
A final walk-round, then the 12-month guarantee applies.

What you’ll pay

Access can matter as much as the joints themselves: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.

Why choose Mastic Doctor

Specification-led, product-correct work
A Constructionline member, so easy to vet
CHAS accredited
Clear, fixed quotes

Get a fixed quote

The quickest route to a quote is a few photos and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or phone 01277 525 020 or email us if you’d rather talk the job through.

What’s near Stornoway

Around Stornoway, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Neptune's Bar and Nicolson Institute. Well-known places in the area include Western Isles Hospital (0.5 miles north) and Lewis Loom Centre (under half a mile south-west). The countryside around Stornoway includes Loch Àirigh na Lic.

Commercial premises across Na h-Eileanan Siar

Commercial buildings across Na h-Eileanan Siar range from older premises altered many times to recent units on business parks. Each building needs the right product for its surfaces, from stone and brick to coated aluminium and laminate.

Scotland has its own building regulations, the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004, with building warrants from the local authority verifier. We seal to what has been specified, on every job. In the parts of Na h-Eileanan Siar near the sea, the elevations facing the weather are where sealant gives up first.

Stornoway: For a hotel such as Royal Hotel, less than half a mile south-west of Stornoway, the colour of a joint at the bar or the bath matters to the look of the room. For tenants and agents on sites such as Gleann Seileach Business Park, 0.8 miles north-west of Stornoway, office fit-outs, reception joints and window perimeters are the usual sealant work.

Leave it or put it right?

Sealant is often treated as an afterthought by the trade that fitted the element. Choosing the product, setting the depth and preparing the faces are what a specialist brings. You notice the difference years later, not on the day.

Comparing quotes

How they’ll work around occupants
Their pre-qualification and accreditations
Who will actually carry out the work
How joint depth will be controlled

After the work

For the best life from the joints:

Keep washroom and kitchen extraction working
Keep abrasive pads and scrapers off resealed joints
Keep a record of which joints were resealed and when
Look at the sealant around anything that has been moved or replaced

Let your cleaning contractor know what’s new. Scourers, blades and harsh products shorten a bead’s life; a mild cleaner is all most joints need.

Each spell of wet weather pushes more water through an open joint. Behind a panel or frame, that water can sit unseen for a long time. Resealing early keeps the problem in the sealant and out of the building.

When it isn’t the sealant

Part of a good diagnosis is knowing where sealant stops. You will hear from us if the cause turns out to be any of the following:

Structural cracks or movement the joints weren’t designed for
Leaks from pipework, wastes or valves (that’s plumbing)
A failed roof covering or waterproofing membrane

General trades versus a specialist

Some joints are best left to specialists: for example fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. Getting these wrong usually costs more in the end than doing them right.

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.

Commercial clients in Na h-Eileanan Siar

For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.

We work for building owners and managing agents on everything from one building to a spread of sites. One quote can cover more than one site, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.

Questions about Na h-Eileanan Siar

Is it OK to apply fresh sealant over existing beads?

Every scrap of failed sealant is removed before the new bead goes on. Sealing over traps water and lifts once the joint moves, so it isn’t something we do.

Can you supply RAMS and insurance details?

The paperwork is agreed with the quote: RAMS, an insurance certificate and CSCS details are the usual requests. Every applicator holds a CSCS card.

Who decides which product is used?

A specification, where there is one, decides it. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.

What do you need from us to quote?

Start with whatever information is to hand. Questions or a site visit follow where needed, then a fixed quote.

Will you just go over the old sealant?

No, never. Overlaying old sealant is a frequent cause of early failure, so everything comes out first.

Do you work for facilities managers and managing agents?

Yes, and through main contractors too. We quote, schedule and report back in the way that suits your process, with a 12-month guarantee on the workmanship.

Is your work guaranteed?

It’s backed by our 12-month guarantee. Should a joint we sealed give trouble during those 12 months, let us know and we’ll look at it.