Expansion and movement joint sealing in Rake, Hampshire
Commercial sealant work in Rake for contractors, FMs and building owners: expansion and movement joint sealing in walls, decks and floors, quoted at a fixed price.
- Sealant peeling off one face of the joint
- New sealant over old, now failing
- Brittle, chalky sealant on external joints
Expansion joint sealing for Rake sites
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Expansion joint sealing for commercial buildings in Rake
Our movement joint work takes in walls, panels, decks and floors: vertical joints in brick and block facades, joints between precast or cladding panels, concrete slab and deck joints, ramps, podiums and internal floors. Every one calls for a sealant picked for its movement, exposure and traffic and we name it in the quote. Site teams most often ask us about water dripping through deck or ramp joints and brittle, chalky sealant on external joints, across car park decks and ramps, cladding panel joints and blockwork control joints. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, the work in Rake is the same: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Around smaller places such as Rake, floor joints are often in barns and farm buildings turned into workshops, stores and offices. Joints in those slabs take vehicles, trolleys and foot traffic, and need a filler or sealant to match.
Whoever the client is, the cover is the same: a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. It doesn’t extend to damage, faults in the building or work by others, and we’re upfront about that.
- Place
- Rake (GU33)
- Region
- Hampshire
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
When something else is needed
A proper diagnosis includes knowing what sealant can’t do. You will hear from us if the cause turns out to be one of these:
- Cracking or settlement that calls for an engineer’s assessment
- Mechanical expansion joint covers, cover plates or proprietary joint systems (a specialist supplier’s job)
- A joint that has to be widened or re-detailed before it can work
If in doubt, phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we’ll say what we think.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Car park decks and ramps
- Cladding panel joints
- Brickwork movement joints
- Precast concrete panel joints
- Podiums and floor movement joints
- Blockwork control joints
Common questions from Rake clients
Does your area include sites such as Ham Barn Business Park, near Rake?
Yes. We cover Rake and the area around it, including industrial estates, business parks and retail parks such as Ham Barn Business Park. A few photographs and the unit address let us price the work.
Is Rake off your patch?
No. Places such as Rake are covered as much as the big towns. London and every South East county are within our area. Send photographs and a list of what needs doing, and we’ll plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
What guarantee do you give on joint sealing?
The workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months from sign-off, and we are fully insured for public liability. Regular sweeping and inspection help the joints last.
Can you work on car park ramps and decks?
Yes. Deck and ramp joints are resealed with a trafficable sealant chosen for the movement.
Is it fine to apply new sealant on top of old?
No. Failed sealant is removed and the faces cleaned back to sound, dry material first, because fresh silicone will not bond with aged silicone.
How much does the work cost?
It depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a quote.
What if there’s asbestos in the old mastic?
Managing asbestos is the dutyholder’s responsibility, so we’ll ask for the register before work on an older building. If anything suspect turns up, we stop until it’s tested.
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On site: what to expect
At the end of each section, we remove the tape, clean down and inspect every joint. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out. If others near Rake need work, visits can be combined, which keeps travel down. You’ll have a fixed quote before work starts.
- Photos, joint lengths and drawings come to us, or we visit.
- Joint widths and expected movement are checked against what the sealant can take.
- Old sealant and debris are cut out of every joint.
- Edges are checked, and we tell you if any need repairing before sealing.
- A sealant suited to the movement and traffic is laid to depth and tooled.
- Areas reopen once cured, and the work carries our 12-month guarantee.
Getting the site ready
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Flag any permit to work we will need
- Make sure the joints can be reached
Quotes
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and a fixed quote will follow. The easiest way is to phone 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Advice
How the quote is worked out
What shapes the price:
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Joint width, depth and condition
- The site’s rules and procedures
The work involved drives the cost: stripping out, preparation, sealing, access and phasing. Call for a quote.
What we need to price the job
Diagnosis starts before we arrive. Tell us:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photos and a few notes.
Owners, agents and contractors
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. Programme, specification and site rules come first, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.
Expansion joint sealing in Rake: the local picture
Less than 3 miles from Rake there are at least three named estates and business parks. That puts plenty of warehouse floors, service yards and car parks close by, all with joints under traffic. Rake is in the South East, one of the UK’s drier regions. Even so, yard and car park joints are only sealed when they’re dry and clean, while winter salting gets into any joint left open.
Hospital campuses such as Chase Community Hospital, 4.2 miles to the north of Rake, grow in stages, leaving movement joints wherever new blocks meet old. Another example is Longmoor Enterprise Park (2.3 miles north-west of Rake), where floors and yards would be done in stages around the occupiers. On a site such as Ham Barn Business Park, 2.3 miles north-west of Rake, the movement joints are in car park slabs, paving and building elevations.
Rake is about 4 miles north-east of Petersfield, in Hampshire. We send applicators to Rake for movement joints. We work across 723 places in Hampshire, from busy centres to rural villages. Portsmouth is covered too, around 19 miles from Rake.
We take on movement joints across the GU33 postcode area, whatever the building. Streets here include London Road, Brewells Lane and St Patrick's Lane, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. If your building is just outside Rake, we cover The Mint (1 mile north-west), Hill Brow (1 mile south-west), Liss (1 mile west), Liss Forest (1 mile north-west) and West Liss (2 miles west). Nearby towns on our patch include Havant (14 miles south-west), Horndean (12 miles south-west), Aldershot (15 miles north), Alton (9 miles north-west), Waterlooville (14 miles south-west) and Petersfield (4 miles south-west).
Near you in Rake
We work on buildings around The Sun Inn, among other places. Rake’s nearest station is Liss station, roughly 1.6 miles west of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Chase Community Hospital (4.2 miles north). For a walk, there’s Liss Riverside Railway Walk North and Wheeler's Down.
Surface by surface
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.
Brickwork and blockwork joints
Vertical movement joints in brick and block walls let the masonry grow and shrink. We use a sealant rated for the movement, usually low-modulus laid over backing rod at the correct depth.
Doing it in-house
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. Getting these wrong typically costs more in the end than doing them right.
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.