Expansion joint sealing in Craignure
Expansion and movement joint sealing in walls, decks and floors in Craignure and across Argyll and Bute. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Joints packed with grit and debris
- Joints where the bead has lost adhesion
- Previous reseals laid over old sealant
Expansion joint sealing near Craignure
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
From enquiry to sign-off
When we get to site, we sign in, go through any site induction and check how permits are handled. Everything around the joints gets protected before any cutting starts, and the work normally takes anything from part of a day to a couple of weeks, depending on joint lengths, widths and access. Jobs near Craignure are often grouped with others in the same area, to make the most of each trip. Tell us how flexible your dates are.
- The first job is to check each joint: how wide it is, how it moves and why the old seal let go.
- Next, we fix a price and confirm the sealant we propose for the movement.
- The failed seal is removed and both faces are cleaned until sound and dry, and we tell you if any edges need repairing first.
- Closed-cell backing rod is set to depth, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints.
- Primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, followed by the sealant, which is then tooled off.
- Each joint is inspected and handed over with our 12-month guarantee.
Preparing the site
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
- Tell staff and tenants when we will be in
Quotes
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? Send the scope and any drawings, and we will return a fixed quote that you can work with. If you have questions first, ring 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Related advice
About our expansion joint sealing in Craignure
Floor movement joints in warehouses, retail and public buildings carry wheeled traffic. Without a sound filler, joint edges chip and spall under load. We will tell you if the edges need repairing before sealing. We work on cladding panel joints, car park decks and ramps and precast concrete panel joints, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are layers of sealant in a movement joint and arrises breaking up along floor joints. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Craignure from the first photographs to the final walk-round, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
For outside joints near Craignure, the Scottish weather sets the timetable: sealant needs a dry joint and a temperature within its range. Internal floors can be done whenever suits the site.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, wherever the site is. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Where
- Craignure (PA65)
- Region
- Argyll and Bute
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
FAQs: Craignure
Is Craignure too far out for you?
Not at all. Craignure is within our area. Every Scottish council area is within our area. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Mull and Iona Community Hospital?
Yes, hospitals are one of the sectors we cover. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
What site paperwork can you supply?
Tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we’ll confirm with the quote.
Does the weather affect the work?
For external joints, yes. Sealant needs a dry joint and a temperature within the product’s range, so frost, rain or cold mornings can delay outside work. Inside work is seldom held up.
Are you CHAS accredited?
Yes. Mastic Doctor is CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member.
Who decides which product is used?
If the job is specified, we follow the specification. Otherwise, we recommend a product to suit the joint’s movement, the substrate and the conditions, following the manufacturer’s guidance.
Will you quote for a small job?
We quote for single jobs as well as large packages and programmes. Send details for a fixed quote.
Should maintenance staff do it?
General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
Putting right a botched joint often costs more than sealing it well at the start, since all of it has to come out and the faces be cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.
What we’re called out for in Craignure
The edges of the material can fail rather than the sealant. If the edge of the joint is friable, the bond fails with it so edge repair has to come before resealing.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- Car park joints leaking onto vehicles below
- Brittle, chalky sealant on external joints
- Water getting into the wall through a failed joint
- Sealant pulling off the joint face
A healthcare site such as Mull and Iona Community Hospital (to the north-west of Craignure) depends on car parks, ramps and service yards whose joints take traffic all day.
What your quote should include
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
Work for main contractors and building owners
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Craignure can form part of a wider programme across Argyll and Bute.
When you manage a building on behalf of an owner, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. We quote a fixed sum, confirm the scope and walk the finished work with you or your representative.
Warehouse floors and decks around Craignure
With the shore within about 1 mile, Craignure counts as a coastal location. Coastal yards and decks give their joints salt and wet weather to deal with, not just wheels, which is why split joints are worth sealing before the edges deteriorate. The west of Scotland, where Craignure is, gets more rain than the east. External slab joints left open take plenty of rain. We wait for dry, workable days to seal them.
For floors and slabs around Craignure, the product is chosen for the traffic and the movement at each joint.
Craignure is in Argyll and Bute. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Craignure can call on us for movement joints, as part of our coverage of Argyll and Bute. Across Argyll and Bute, 124 places are covered, including Craignure. For work in that direction, see our Glasgow page (70 miles or so).
We cover the PA65 postcode districts for movement joints. Sites close to Craignure are covered too, including Lochdon (3 miles south), Lochaline (5 miles north-west), Achnacroish (9 miles east), Balliveolan (9 miles east) and Salen (9 miles west). Nearby towns on our patch include Oban (10 miles south-east), Dunollie (10 miles south-east) and Dunbeg (10 miles east). Remote and island addresses take more planning, from travel and ferries to the weather, so give the site location in your enquiry.
What’s near Craignure
We work on buildings around Craignure Inn, among other places. Nearby you’ll also find Duart Castle (2.8 miles south-east) and Mull and Iona Community Hospital (less than half a mile north-west).
When something else is needed
Sealant solves a lot, but not everything, and we’d rather tell you before you spend money. It won’t fix:
- Joints too narrow for the movement, which need redesigning by the engineer
- Damaged metal nosings or cover plates over a joint
- Leaks coming from the membrane rather than the joint seal
Not sure which it is? You can call the office on 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Where we work in Craignure
- Precast concrete panel joints
- Car park decks and ramps
- Blockwork control joints
- Podiums and floor movement joints
- Cladding panel joints
- Brickwork movement joints
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What the job involves on each surface
Podium joints
On podiums, the joint can belong to a larger waterproofing detail. Where the specification calls for sealant, we reseal, and tell you if the problem looks like the waterproofing below.
Joints between different materials
Junctions between brick and render, or concrete and cladding, move independently. The product must bond to both substrates and cope with the movement, with primer where specified.