Expansion and movement joint sealing in Chesser, Edinburgh
Expansion joint sealing for Chesser, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Spalled or broken joint edges in floors and decks
- Previous reseals laid over old sealant
- Leaks through car park deck joints onto the level below
Expansion joint sealing for Chesser sites
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
About our expansion joint sealing in Chesser
We cover the full range of movement joints: brickwork and blockwork joints, precast and cladding panel joints, concrete joints, car park decks and ramps, podiums and floor movement joints. Every one calls for a sealant picked for its movement, exposure and traffic. Most enquiries involve sealant peeling off one face of the joint and hardened, cracked sealant on exposed facades, on podiums and floor movement joints, precast concrete panel joints and car park decks and ramps. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Chesser tend to want the same three things: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
Around the edges of Scotland’s cities are warehouses, trade counters and distribution units, each with saw-cut and construction joints under forklifts and pallet trucks. We work in phases with a product suited to the traffic, so operations carry on.
Every job is signed off with a 12-month guarantee. It’s a plain promise: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Chesser (EH14, EH11, EH12)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
From enquiry to sign-off
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then we prepare and seal each joint with the specified product, and we finish with a walk round so the work can be signed off. For premises in Chesser, tell us about access times, shared entrances and any building rules, so the work can be phased and areas kept in use.
- First the joints are inspected, widths measured and the type of failure noted.
- A fixed quote names the sealant we propose and its movement class.
- Where areas have to stay open, we agree a phased sequence before starting.
- The failed seal is cut out and both joint faces cleaned back to sound material.
- Depth is controlled with backing, the faces are primed where the maker calls for it, then the bead is laid and tooled.
- We check each joint with you, confirm the cure time and sign off under our 12-month guarantee.
What we need from you
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Ask for a quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To start the process, call 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
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Also in Chesser
What the job involves on each surface
Podium joints
Podium joints often sit within a waterproofing system. We reseal the joint where sealant is the specified fix.
Car park decks and ramps
Car park joints are some of the hardest-working joints in any building. A trafficable sealant suited to the movement goes in, phased so parts of the car park stay open.
Expansion joint sealing in Chesser: the local picture
The 3 miles around Chesser take in at least three named trading estates, business parks or retail parks. Floors, loading bays and yards on sites like these are where floor and movement joints work hardest. Being in the east of Scotland, Chesser gets less rain than the west coast. Cold winters and gritting are hard on any yard or deck joint left open. Autumn is a sensible time to seal them.
Schools like Balgreen Primary School often have long brick elevations with movement joints that age quietly. Retail parks like Edinburgh West Retail Park, under half a mile to the north-east of Chesser, have long runs of car park and yard joints taking daily traffic.
Chesser is about 2 miles south-west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Commercial clients in Chesser can call on us for movement joints, as part of our coverage of Edinburgh. Chesser is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list.
We cover the EH14, EH11 and EH12 postcode districts for movement joints. Streets here include Appin Lane, Ford's Road and Gorgie Road, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. We also cover Slateford (1 mile east), Parkhead (1 mile south-west), Redhall (1 mile south-west), Stenhouse (1 mile north-west) and Longstone (1 mile south-west). Bigger towns within reach include Leith (5 miles north-east), Bonnington (4 miles north-east), Greenside (3 miles north-east), Broughton (3 miles north-east), Bellevue (3 miles north-east) and Silvermills (3 miles north-east).
What’s near Chesser
Around Chesser, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Cross Keys Tavern, Gabrielle Keiller Library and Merchiston Castle School and the streets around them. Nearby too are Saughton Park (under half a mile north) and Firrhill High School (1.1 miles south-east). There’s a railway station in Chesser itself: Slateford station. A little further out are Merchiston Tower (1.4 miles east) and Murrayfield Experience (0.9 miles north). For a walk, there’s Dunsapie Loch and Craiglockhart Hill.
Aftercare for building managers
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Put movement joints on the planned maintenance inspection round
- Inspect exposed joints once the cold weather has passed
- Clear dirt from joint lines during routine cleaning
- Keep racking legs and heavy point loads off floor joints
Every joint we seal is backed by a 12-month guarantee on workmanship. Record which product went into which joints in the building file, so the next reseal starts with the facts.
Once debris packs a failed joint, the structure has nowhere to expand. The arrises crack and break away under the load. Keeping the seal sound avoids all of that.
Chesser: questions and answers
Must our site in Chesser stop work while the joints are done?
Typically not: we work in sections and hand each one back once it has cured. Tell us which hours and entrances we can use and we will plan from there.
Is a hospital such as Royal Edinburgh Hospital somewhere you can work?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. The estates team’s permit system and infection-control rules come first, and the work is planned around them.
What if the joint edges are damaged?
Broken arrises have to be put right before resealing, and we will point out where that’s the case. Sealing over them leads to early failure.
What will the job cost?
It depends on the job: quantities, access, the product and any phasing. Call for a fixed quote and we will price it properly.
Will you come and look before quoting?
It depends on the job. Simple work can often be priced from photographs, while larger or less clear jobs get a site visit first.
Will you quote for a small job?
Whatever the size, the process is the same: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed.
When can the area be used after sealing?
We will confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and flag anything to keep off until it has cured.
What we can’t put right
Honesty saves time and money. New sealant won’t cure:
- Failed waterproofing membranes on podiums, roofs or decks (a waterproofing specialist’s job)
- A joint that has to be widened or re-detailed before it can work
- Structural movement beyond what the joints were designed for (that needs a structural engineer)
If in doubt, call 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we’ll say what we think.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Precast concrete panel joints
- Cladding panel joints
- Brickwork movement joints
- Car park decks and ramps
- Blockwork control joints
- Podiums and floor movement joints
Do you need expansion joint sealing in Chesser?
Sometimes the sealant holds but the substrate breaks away. If the edge of the joint is friable, the bond fails with it so edge repair has to come before resealing.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Layers of sealant in a movement joint
- Sealant pulling off the joint face
- Chipped joint edges on forklift routes
- Weathered movement joint sealant that no longer flexes
Another example is West Gorgie Park Industrial Estate (less than half a mile north-east of Chesser), where floors and yards would be done in stages around the occupiers.
What to look for in a quote
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- Who will actually carry out the work
Why deal with it now?
A like-for-like reseal of a joint that keeps splitting rarely lasts. A higher movement class, or a design change by the engineer, may be needed and we will tell you honestly. Failed sealant in a shared building in Chesser can affect more than one owner. Fixing it promptly keeps repairs small.
We don’t publish prices, since every building and every scope is different. Call for a quote.
Why clients in Chesser choose us
- One phone line for London, the South East and Scotland
- A Constructionline member, so easy to vet
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- Colour options checked against the specified product
See what affects the cost and our accreditations and insurance.