Commercial sealant contractors in Drylaw, Edinburgh
Commercial sealant contractors in Drylaw, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Shrunken sealant along kitchen worktops and splashbacks
- Mouldy silicone around WCs, urinals and vanity tops
- Damp patches where an external joint has failed
Commercial sealant contractors near Drylaw
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
What the job involves on each surface
Shop fronts and retail fit-outs
Most shops can’t close for a reseal. Tell us your trading hours and access windows and we’ll plan around them.
Fire-rated seals where specified
Not every penetration suits a sealant. Collars, wraps, batts and boards are specified for other services and gaps, so we’ll flag it if the detail needs a different product.
Commercial sealant contractors in Drylaw
Most of the buildings we seal stay open while we are there. Work is scheduled around the site hours and access windows you give us. That applies whether the building is an office, a shop, a hotel, a college or a care home. We work on kitchen worktops and splashbacks, floor and threshold joints and washrooms and tea points, and what we are called in for most is greasy, split joints in a kitchen or tea point and damp patches where an external joint has failed. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, in Drylaw it comes down to the same thing: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
In Drylaw, as anywhere, the first joints to go are typically the ones that work hardest: frame perimeters in the sun, floor joints at doorways and anything that gets wet every day.
City-centre premises in Scotland often come with tight access, shared closes and loading restrictions. Give us your access times and any building rules and we will fit the work around them.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, in Drylaw as everywhere else we work. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Place
- Drylaw (EH4, EH5)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
When to bring in a specialist
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but larger jobs are different: a specialist works through quantities efficiently, leaves a consistent finish and backs it with a 12-month guarantee.
Paperwork matters too. Many sites expect CSCS cards, RAMS and proof of insurance, and we will confirm the paperwork you need with the quote.
What Drylaw’s businesses ask us to seal
The sea is no more than about 1 mile from Drylaw. Buildings near the sea put their external joints through more driven rain, with salt air nearer the beach. A matched colour is only half the brief on an exposed frontage. Drylaw has five care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Care homes need tidy, cleanable joints in kitchens, corridors and communal rooms, often in colours that suit the décor.
Sites a few miles apart, such as Drylaw Shopping Centre and Craigleith Retail Park, can share one programme and one point of contact. Units at retail parks like Drylaw Shopping Centre, less than half a mile north-east of Drylaw, change hands and get refitted, with new joints at every frontage.
Drylaw is about 2 miles west of Stockbridge, in Edinburgh. Drylaw sits inside our coverage, with the same fixed quotes and 12-month guarantee as everywhere else. Our Edinburgh coverage takes in 174 places, large and small.
We take on sealant joints across the EH4 and EH5 postcode area. Among the streets we cover are Mottram Road, Telford Road and Drylaw Avenue, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Access to Drylaw is via the A902 among other routes. If your building is just outside Drylaw, we cover Blackhall (1 mile south-west), Muirhouse (1 mile north), Crewe Toll (1 mile north-east), East Pilton (1 mile east) and West Pilton (1 mile north). Nearby towns on our patch include Leith (3 miles east), Bonnington (3 miles east), Greenside (3 miles east), Buccleuch (3 miles south-east), Pilrig (3 miles east) and North Leith (3 miles east).
Around Drylaw
We work on buildings around Stewart's Melville College and Gabrielle Keiller Library, among other places. Drylaw’s nearest station is Haymarket station, about 1.7 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Western General Hospital (0.6 miles east) and Murrayfield Experience (1.6 miles south). For a walk, there’s Corstorphine Hill and Dunsapie Loch.
Nearby places to Drylaw
What else we do in Drylaw
How a job runs
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. The work area is signed and kept contained, keep walkways clear and work section by section so the rest of the building stays in use. For premises in Drylaw, tell us about access times, shared entrances and any building rules, so the work can be phased and areas kept in use.
- 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.
- Old sealant is cut out completely, never sealed over.
- Each joint gets a suitable sealant, laid to depth and tooled.
- We check the work with you, and the 12-month guarantee starts.
Before we start on site
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
Quotes
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings that you can work with. If you have questions first, call 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Advice
Drylaw: questions and answers
Must a hotel around Drylaw close while you work?
Almost never. The work is phased so most rooms stay available. The plan is built around your bookings.
Does the sea air around Drylaw change the choice of sealant?
It can. Wind-driven rain and, closer to the shore, salt air are harder on external joints. Product choice and preparation matter more, and sea-facing elevations are worth inspecting more often.
Is it fine to apply new sealant on top of old?
No. Failed sealant is removed and the faces cleaned back to sound, dry material first, since fresh sealant will not bond reliably to aged material.
Who decides which product is used?
The specification comes first, if there is one. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and the quote will be based on it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
How long do sealant joints last?
Nobody can honestly give a figure in years, since movement, weather, cleaning and use all affect it. Regular inspection is the best way to catch problems early.
Can you supply RAMS and insurance details?
Send your site requirements with the enquiry, and we’ll confirm the RAMS, insurance and CSCS details with the quote. From you, we will need the asbestos information for older buildings and any site rules.
Do you need commercial sealant contractors in Drylaw?
A good share of the joints we inspect were topped up instead of being renewed. New silicone has nothing to key into, so the top layer lifts, holds water and hides what’s going on. By the time it shows, there can be two or three layers to cut out.
Site and facilities staff are often the first to spot these:
- A top-up bead over failed sealant, now lifting
- Weathered facade sealant that no longer flexes
- Untidy joints in a reception, shop floor or lobby
- Greasy, split joints in a kitchen or tea point
Refits at hotels like Village Hotel (to the north-east of Drylaw) bring joints at vanity tops, bars and reception desks that guests see every day.
Questions to ask before you book
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
- Their public liability cover
What sets the cost
Each job is priced on its own details. The things that drive the figure:
- Access and working height
- The size and state of each joint
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- Travel to remote or island sites
Every site prices differently: joint size, product, access and site hours all play a part. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Details that help us quote
There’s no need for a formal survey. A few details are enough to get going:
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- Any dates the work must fit around
Every quote starts with the facts: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Share whatever details you have and we will fill any gaps with a visit.
Maintenance after handover
Cleaning and maintenance staff play a part too. Pass these on to them:
- Keep a record of which joints were resealed and when
- Keep washroom and kitchen extraction working
- Check the asbestos register before anyone disturbs old sealant in an older building
- Ask cleaners to use a soft cloth and mild cleaner on sealant
Brief your cleaning team on the joints that have been resealed. Scourers, blades and harsh products shorten a bead’s life.
Sealant installed at the same time normally fails in sequence. A few splits this year usually mean more next year, so it makes sense to look at the wider elevation or block. We will tell you which sealant joints need doing first and which can wait.