Construction and new-build mastic in Southhouse, Edinburgh
Planning work on a mastic package in Southhouse? We assess it, carry out the work and guarantee our workmanship for 12 months.
- Old sealant on a refurbishment that needs stripping before new work
- External joints sealed in damp or cold conditions that are now failing
- A mastic package split between trades with no clear owner
Construction mastic near Southhouse
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
Who do we deal with for shared-part sealing on a tenement in Southhouse?
Usually the owners agree it together, and a property factor often handles the arrangements. We’re happy to deal with the factor directly.
Is Eldin Industrial Estate, near Southhouse, within your area?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Southhouse, Eldin Industrial Estate among them, are all within reach. To start, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email with the unit, the joints involved and your access times.
What hours do you work?
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.
How soon can the area be used again?
The product and site conditions decide that. Some products skin over quickly but need longer to cure fully, and we confirm it before leaving site.
Do you have public liability insurance?
Yes. We’re fully insured, including public liability cover.
Can you fit around our programme?
We work to your programme. Tell us the sequence and we’ll plan applicators around it so sealing follows the trades.
What if there’s asbestos in the old mastic?
Some older mastics, especially in pre-2000 buildings, can contain asbestos. We check the asbestos register before cutting out old sealant in an older building, and if asbestos is suspected, work stops until it’s tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials.
Construction mastic for commercial buildings in Southhouse
Most of the packages we price run well beyond frames: external door and window perimeters, internal decorators’ caulk where specified, sanitary joints in bathrooms and washrooms, kitchen worktops and splashbacks, and snagging before handover. One contractor for all of it keeps the responsibility in one place and gives you a consistent finish across the job. If you have sanitary sealant damaged by following trades and window and door perimeters that won’t pass inspection, we can put it right. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Southhouse first comes to us: we look at the rest while we are there and tell you what we find.
Sites in Scottish city centres tend to be hemmed in, with deliveries and storage to plan. Our CSCS-carded applicators work to the site induction, the programme and the sequence of trades.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Where
- Southhouse (EH17, EH16)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Places near Southhouse
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Maintenance after handover
Every sealant joint needs some looking after, and how long they last depends on how they’re treated. We suggest:
- Brief the final clean team to avoid blades near sealant
- Release areas for mastic once other trades have finished in them
- Ask installers to correct oversized gaps first
- Put any product change through the designer first
Any damage after we’ve finished should go on the snag list right away. Snags can be picked up in a planned close-out visit.
Frames with gaps too wide for sealant need sorting before the mastic goes on. Sealant stretched over an oversized gap won’t last so packing or adjustment by the installer comes first. We raise them during our first walk of the area.
Should maintenance staff do it?
For most general trades, sealant is a sideline. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class.
Certain joints really need a specialist: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
Why it’s worth doing now in Southhouse
Patching snags as they appear can feel quicker than a proper close-out. But one planned snagging pass through each area normally clears more for less disruption and saves applicators coming back again and again. Snagging can be priced as a separate stage. In Southhouse, as across Scotland, rain finds any gap, and failed external joints let it into stone walls and around frames. Resealing promptly protects the stone and the interior.
Pricing mastic packages depends on how many there are, their condition and the access. Call for a quote.
Why clients in Southhouse choose us
- Specification-led, product-correct work
- Coloured sealants to suit the setting, where available
- Our applicators hold CSCS cards
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or our accreditations.
Construction mastic around Southhouse: points for this area
The east of Scotland, where Southhouse is, gets less rain than the west. Cold, damp starts still stop external sealing on some days. We programme around it with the site team. There are a number of hotels within about 2 miles of Southhouse. When hotels extend or refit, the work is typically squeezed between peak periods, mastic included.
Units on estates such as Eldin Industrial Estate, 1 mile to the south-east of Southhouse, tend to be reclad and refitted as tenants change, and each job leaves cladding and perimeter joints to seal. Building work at universities like University of Edinburgh Bioquarter (1.6 miles north-east of Southhouse) is often timed for the summer, mastic included.
Southhouse is about 4 miles south-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Commercial clients in Southhouse use us for work on mastic packages. Our Edinburgh coverage takes in 174 places, large and small.
Commercial sites across EH17 and EH16 are covered. Buildings on Tor Lane, Soutra Road and Mansion Lane are within our area. Just outside Southhouse, we also work in Gracemount (1 mile north), Kaimes (1 mile west), Howden Hall (1 mile north-west), Alnwickhill (1 mile north-west) and Ellen's Glen (1 mile north-east). Further afield, our area takes in Edinburgh (4 miles north-west), Leith (6 miles north), Bonnington (5 miles north), Greenside (4 miles north), Broughton (4 miles north) and Bellevue (4 miles north).
Near you in Southhouse
We work on buildings around Drum Park and Liberton Parish Church and the streets around them. The closest station to Southhouse is Shawfair station, about 2.8 miles north-east. Other landmarks nearby include Liberton Hospital (0.6 miles north) and Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (1.8 miles north). For a walk, there’s Blackford Hill and Duddingston Loch.
From enquiry to sign-off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Any old material is cut back to clean, sound faces, primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Tell us the rules and we’ll work to them.
- We walk the site or review drawings to understand the package.
- A fixed quote sets out scope, products and phasing.
- Paperwork is agreed and applicators are inducted on site.
- We seal plot by plot or floor by floor in line with the programme.
- Any frame gaps or issues outside our scope are flagged to the site team.
- Final snagging is completed and the 12-month guarantee applies.
Getting the site ready
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Quotes
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. To take the first step, call 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Advice
Work for main contractors and building owners
Facilities managers want contractors who arrive with the paperwork sorted. Tell us what site paperwork you need, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we will confirm with the quote.
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, clear figures and clear communication matter. We quote a fixed sum, confirm the scope and walk the finished work with you or your representative.
Do you need construction mastic in Southhouse?
On construction sites, joints typically fail early because of when they were sealed, not what was used. If sealant goes in before the last trades are through, it gets knocked, painted over or contaminated, so they end up back on the snag list.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Inconsistent sealant finishes from plot to plot
- Window and door perimeters that won’t pass inspection
- Frame gaps too wide for sealant alone
- Sanitary sealant damaged by following trades
Projects at schools like Gracemount High School work to term dates, so mastic is programmed tightly.
Comparing quotes
- Do they follow the manufacturer’s priming guidance?
- How they’ll work around occupants
- Their public liability cover
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?