Expansion and movement joint sealing in New Street, Kent
Expansion and movement joint sealing in walls, decks and floors in New Street and across Kent. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Layers of sealant in a movement joint
- Weathered movement joint sealant that no longer flexes
- Car park joints leaking onto vehicles below
Need expansion joint sealing in New Street?
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 New Street
We cover the full range of movement joints: vertical joints in brick and block facades, joints between precast or cladding panels, concrete slab and deck joints, ramps, podiums and internal floors. The product depends on the movement, the weather and anything that runs over it, and we will confirm the choice in the quote. If you’re dealing with new sealant over old, now failing and arrises breaking up along floor joints, we can put it right, whatever the surface. Whoever orders the work in New Street, the brief is typically the same: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
Smaller community and commercial buildings around New Street have their own movement joints in walls and floors. They’re easily forgotten until water gets in or an edge breaks.
The 12-month guarantee is for workmanship rather than wear and tear. How long a sealant joint lasts depends on movement, exposure, cleaning and use, so we spell out the cover before we begin.
- Location
- New Street (TN15)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Common questions from New Street clients
Must our site in New Street stop work while the joints are done?
Rarely. Work is phased around your operations. The phasing plan comes with the quote.
Is New Street too small for you to travel to?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. Our area covers London and the South East counties. We plan jobs in smaller places so return trips are kept to a minimum.
What exactly is a movement joint?
The terms overlap a great deal. Both let materials grow and shrink with temperature, moisture and load.
What sealant do you use in movement joints?
Whatever suits the joint and the specification. The quote states the sealant and its movement class, so you know what’s going in.
What guarantee do you give on joint sealing?
It’s backed by our 12-month guarantee. If a joint we sealed fails inside the 12 months, let us know.
What will the job cost?
Every job gets its own fixed quote. For yours, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos with a description of the work.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and we will price the work to it.
What we’re called out for in New Street
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 we tell you if the edges need repairing first.
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
- Spalled or broken joint edges in floors and decks
If you manage units on an estate such as Bowes Industrial Centre, which lies north-east of New Street, the floor joints under forklifts and pallet trucks and the slab joints in the yard are the ones to watch.
Questions to ask before you book
- Is the sealant right for the movement and the substrate?
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
For managing agents and facilities managers
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.
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around New Street. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
Nearby places to New Street
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Looking after the joints
For the best life from the joints:
- Note which joints were done, when, and with what
- Leave barriers in place until fresh joint sealant has cured
- Look over external and deck joints after a hard winter
- Keep scrapers and ploughs from dragging across joint sealant
Debris does more harm to joint sealant than most people realise. Stones pressed into the bead by wheels or feet can puncture it. A routine sweep is the simplest protection.
A failed deck joint lets water straight through to the level below. That water often carries de-icing salts with it and it can affect the structure over time. Sealing the joint promptly stops it at source.
Expansion joint sealing around New Street: points for this area
Rainfall across the South East, New Street included, is lower than in many parts of the UK. Outside joints in yards and car parks still have to be dry before sealing, and winter de-icing salt on car parks and ramps works into any open joint. At about 21 miles from central London, New Street is within reach of the capital. Warehousing clusters around the motorways that ring and radiate from London, and their floor joints take forklift and pallet-truck traffic all day.
For a school such as Culverstone Green Primary School, playground and building joints can be done in the holidays. Another example is Heaver Farm Trading Estate (1.9 miles west of New Street), where floors and yards would be done in stages around the occupiers.
New Street is about 6 miles south of Northfleet, in Kent. If you’re looking for expansion joint sealing in New Street, we can help. Across Kent, 931 places are covered, New Street among them. Our London page has more on work in that area (21 miles or so).
We take on movement joints across the TN15 postcode area, for business premises of every kind. Close to New Street, our area also takes in Ridley (1 mile west), South Street (1 mile east), Hodsoll Street (1 mile south-west), Culverstone Green (1 mile south-east) and Priestwood Green (1 mile east). Further afield, our area takes in Maidstone (10 miles south-east), Dartford (8 miles north-west), Sevenoaks (8 miles south-west), Royal Tunbridge Wells (15 miles south), Gravesend (6 miles north) and Tonbridge (11 miles south).
Near you in New Street
We work on buildings around Meopham School and Trosley Country Park. The closest station to New Street is Meopham station, roughly 2.4 miles north. A little further out are Ightham Court (4.6 miles south-west) and Coldrum Long Barrow (2.7 miles south-east).
What sealant work can’t fix
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Movement on a scale no sealant is meant to absorb
- Waterproofing layers buried beneath the sealant
- Crumbling edges that would give a new bead nothing sound to grip
If you are not sure, just give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
What we seal
- Blockwork control joints
- Cladding panel joints
- Brickwork movement joints
- Podiums and floor movement joints
- Car park decks and ramps
- Precast concrete panel joints
From enquiry to sign-off
A typical day starts with protection: tape along each joint edge and covers over finishes, stock and equipment close by. On site, the work typically takes a short visit for a handful of joints, or several days or more for a car park deck or long runs of facade joints, and we clear our waste as we work. For work around New Street, we aim to finish in one visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- We look at the joints, their width and how they’ve failed.
- Next, we fix a price and confirm the sealant we propose for the movement.
- We strip out the old seal and prepare the faces.
- Closed-cell backing rod is set to depth, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints.
- Where the maker calls for primer, it’s applied first, then the bead goes in and is tooled to a concave finish.
- Finished joints are checked and backed by our 12-month guarantee.
What we need from you
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
Ask for a quote
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Related advice
How the job changes by surface
Podium joints
Podium joints often sit within a waterproofing system. We reseal the joint where sealant is the specified fix, and tell you if the problem looks like the waterproofing below.
Internal floor movement joints
Floor joints include saw-cut joints and construction joints. A semi-rigid filler is common in trafficked industrial floors, with a flexible sealant where movement is larger.