Expansion Joint Sealing in Great Shefford
Expansion joint sealing in Great Shefford, backed by over 20 years in commercial sealing. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Car park joints leaking onto vehicles below
- Sealant peeling off one face of the joint
- New sealant over old, now failing
Expansion joint sealing near Great Shefford
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Why deal with it now?
Doing joint resealing alongside other planned works can save on access. But joints already letting water in shouldn’t wait for a programme, as damage continues meanwhile. We can split the scope into urgent and planned. Around Great Shefford, it’s better to renew all the failing joints at once, rather than one at a time. Send photographs of each area and we’ll quote for the lot.
Every site prices differently: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. A fixed quote follows once we understand the job.
Why clients in Great Shefford choose us
- Our applicators hold CSCS cards
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- Health and safety: CHAS accredited
- Workmanship guaranteed for 12 months
Read our cost guide and our accreditations.
Expansion joint sealing in Great Shefford
Long runs of brick or block have movement joints built in. Once the seal fails, rain reaches the cavity and the joint can no longer close. The old seal is cut away, backing rod goes in at depth, and a low-modulus masonry sealant is gunned and tooled. We work on precast concrete panel joints, brickwork movement joints and car park decks and ramps, and what we’re called in for most is sealant pulling off the joint face and damp inside where a wall movement joint has failed. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Great Shefford tend to want the same three things: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
Around smaller places such as Great Shefford, floor joints are often in barns and farm buildings turned into workshops, stores and offices. Whether it’s a farm store turned workshop or a storage unit, the joints need a product that suits the traffic.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Location
- Great Shefford (RG17)
- Region
- West Berkshire
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Building owners, agents and FMs in Great Shefford
Agents, factors and owners’ representatives all follow the same route: send the details, accept a fixed quote, and we carry out and guarantee the work. We can agree access arrangements and keyholder contacts beforehand.
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. The work is planned around how the building runs, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
Cost factors for movement joints
Before we quote, we look at:
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Location, for remote and island sites
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: what’s in scope, how we reach it, what’s specified and when it needs doing. Call for a quote and we will put a fixed figure on it.
Sending details for a quote
Good information means a firmer quote. Helpful details to send:
- The postcode of the building
- Specification clauses that apply
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- The type of building and who uses it
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? Send the scope and any drawings, and we’ll return a fixed quote that you can work with. For a chat about it beforehand, ring 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, and the sealant is tooled off neatly. For a building around Great Shefford, tell us how to find it and who will meet us. Send that with the details and we will confirm the plan with the quote.
- We assess the joints on site or from photos, noting widths and how each has failed.
- You receive a fixed quote stating the product and the movement it is rated for.
- Phasing is agreed so decks, floors or entrances can stay in use where needed.
- We strip the old sealant or filler and prepare each face until it’s sound and dry.
- Backing rod or bond-breaker sets the depth, primer goes on where specified, and the sealant is applied and tooled.
- We check each joint with you, confirm the cure time and sign off under our 12-month guarantee.
Preparing the site
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Quotes
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, call 01277 525 020 or email us.
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Should maintenance staff do it?
Some joints are best left to specialists: for instance fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Traffic, movement and joints around Great Shefford
Great Shefford is about 58 miles from central London. The South East has large numbers of industrial estates and warehouses along the motorway corridors. Great Shefford sits in one of the drier corners of the country, the South East. External joints still wait for dry conditions, and where de-icing salt is spread in winter, open joints let it in.
In a school such as Shefford C.E. Primary School, movement joints in brick, block and hall floors tend to be forgotten until they leak.
Great Shefford is about 8 miles north-west of Newbury, in West Berkshire. Looking for expansion joint sealing in Great Shefford? We can help, as we do across West Berkshire. We work across 140 places in West Berkshire. Sites around Reading have their own page, roughly 20 miles from Great Shefford.
We take on movement joints across the RG17 postcode area, whatever the building. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Station Road, The Mead and Miller's Field. Sites close to Great Shefford are covered too, including East Shefford (1 mile south-east), Weston (1 mile south-east), East Garston (2 miles north-west), Shefford Woodlands (2 miles south-west) and East Garston Woodlands (2 miles west). Further afield, our area takes in Newbury (8 miles south-east), Thatcham (10 miles south-east), Speenhamland (7 miles south-east), Hungerford (5 miles south-west), Lambourn (4 miles north-west) and Shaw (7 miles south-east).
Around Great Shefford
For a walk, there’s Sole Common Pond.
Questions we are asked in Great Shefford
Does a site in Great Shefford have to shut while its joints are sealed?
Rarely. Work is phased around your operations. The phasing plan comes with the quote.
Is Great Shefford too far out for you?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. Our area covers London and the South East counties. Good photos up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No, never. Overlaying old sealant is a frequent cause of early failure, so it all comes out first.
When can you be on site?
Mention the site’s hours and access windows in your enquiry, and we’ll schedule the work to suit. You can reach the office between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and we will price the work to it.
Can you seal car park deck joints?
Yes. These joints take wheels, salt and water, so product choice matters and broken edges are flagged before sealing.
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 need expansion joint sealing in Great Shefford?
Car park decks and floors face loads that walls never see. Tyres and wheels press on the edges and the sealant. The product has to be suited to the traffic.
Look out for the following:
- Movement joints with split or torn sealant
- Hardened, cracked sealant on exposed facades
- Previous reseals laid over old sealant
- Leaks through car park deck joints onto the level below
In and around Great Shefford, the right filler or sealant for each joint depends on the traffic and the movement it takes.
Comparing quotes
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Whether their applicators hold CSCS cards
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS