Upper Dicker expansion joint sealing
Expansion and movement joint sealing in walls, decks and floors in Upper Dicker. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Chipped joint edges on forklift routes
- Hardened, cracked sealant on exposed facades
- Layers of sealant in a movement joint
Expansion joint sealing for businesses in Upper Dicker
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
How we handle expansion joint sealing in Upper Dicker
We have been sealing expansion and movement joints for over 20 years. Our applicators are CSCS-carded, we’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and we carry five million pounds of public liability insurance. Each job is backed by a 12-month guarantee on the workmanship. We work on cladding panel joints, precast concrete panel joints and blockwork control joints, and the failures we are asked to look at most are debris jammed in movement joints and torn sealant in brick or block movement joints. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Upper Dicker first comes to us: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
Jobs around smaller places like Upper Dicker are planned so the whole job is done in one visit. Tell us the joint widths if you can, and what drives or walks over them.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: the preparation, the sealing and the tooling. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Where
- Upper Dicker (BN27)
- Wider area
- East Sussex
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Your questions answered
Can you work on a hospital site such as Hellingly Hospital Railway?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. We follow the site’s permits, sign-in and infection-control procedures in every area.
Is Northfield Business Park, near Upper Dicker, within your area?
Yes. Our area takes in Upper Dicker and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Northfield Business Park included. A few photos and the unit address let us price the work.
Can you fit around our working hours?
Give us your site hours and any access windows in your enquiry, and we’ll schedule the work to suit. Our office runs Monday to Friday, 8am until 5pm.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Include it with the drawings when you ask for a quote, and the quote will be based on it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
Are expansion joints and movement joints the same thing?
Put simply, it’s a planned break in a wall, slab or deck so the materials can move. Expansion joint is a name often used for the same thing and both need a flexible seal.
Are you CHAS accredited?
Yes. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member.
Why has the sealant in our expansion joints split?
It depends on how the sealant has let go: tearing down the centre means too much movement, and lifting off one side means poor adhesion. Broken edges are a third possibility.
Nearby places to Upper Dicker
What else we do in Upper Dicker
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are easy to get wrong without experience.
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.
Commercial clients in Upper Dicker
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.
FMs need a contractor who is easy to get on site. Tell us what site paperwork you need, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we will confirm with the quote.
Quoting for work in Upper Dicker
The price varies from site to site. Expect it to depend on:
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Whether old sealant has to be cut out first
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
The specified product makes a difference, and so does the preparation. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
Before you send an enquiry
However big the job, these details speed things up:
- Any dates the work must fit around
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Any specification or named product
A good quote starts with a clear picture: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Send what you have, and we’ll arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.
Why it’s worth doing now in Upper Dicker
Re-sealing with the same product that failed is often a false economy. A higher movement class, or a design change by the engineer, may be needed. Older rural buildings around Upper Dicker move with the seasons, and rigid or tired sealant can’t keep up. A sealant with the right movement capability, correctly sized, lasts far better.
Pricing movement joints depends on quantities, condition and access. Call for a quote.
What you get with us
- Work carried out by CSCS-carded applicators
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- Fully insured
- A range of standard colours, depending on the product
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations.
Where floor joints take the most wear near Upper Dicker
Upper Dicker sits in one of the drier corners of the country, the South East. Outside joints in yards and car parks still have to be dry before sealing, and where de-icing salt is spread in winter, open joints let it in. Less than 3 miles from Upper Dicker there are at least three named estates and business parks. Their warehouses, yards and car parks are exactly where joints take the most punishment.
At a retail site such as Hailsham Retail Park, 1.9 miles east of Upper Dicker, trolleys, cages and cars run over floor and slab joints all day. For a school such as Bede's Prep School, playground and building joints can be done in the holidays.
Upper Dicker is about 2 miles west of Hailsham, in East Sussex. Commercial clients in Upper Dicker can call on us for movement joints, as part of our coverage of East Sussex. We work across 308 places in East Sussex. For work in that direction, see our Brighton page, about 15 miles away.
Business premises anywhere in BN27 are within our area. Buildings on Camberlot Road, Old Forge Close and Coldharbour Road are within our area. Just outside Upper Dicker, we also work in Lower Dicker (1 mile north-east), Tile Hurst (1 mile east), Lower Horsebridge (2 miles north-east), Nash Street (2 miles north) and Upper Horsebridge (2 miles east). Nearby towns on our patch include Eastbourne (7 miles south-east), Bexhill-on-Sea (12 miles east), Seaford (8 miles south-west), Lewes (9 miles west), Crowborough (13 miles north) and St Leonards (15 miles east).
Around Upper Dicker
We work on buildings around The Plough Inn, Park Mead Primary School and Hailsham Community College and the streets around them. Upper Dicker’s nearest station is Berwick (Sussex) station, roughly 2.5 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Agricultural Museum (3.6 miles south) and Hellingly Hospital Railway (2.8 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Firle Beacon.
Common problems we fix in Upper Dicker
Car park decks and floors face loads that walls never see. Tyres and wheels press on the edges and the sealant. A sealant that isn’t trafficable won’t last there.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Damp inside where a wall movement joint has failed
- Expansion joints split through the centre of the bead
- New sealant over old, now failing
- Spalled or broken joint edges in floors and decks
At places like Swallow Business Park (1.2 miles north of Upper Dicker), joints are sealed a section at a time so operations carry on.
Comparing quotes
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
Our process
We follow your site rules from the start: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. Once we’re cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. For work around Upper Dicker, we aim to finish in one visit, so photos and measurements up front really help. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- We start with photographs, approximate lengths and any drawings, visiting where needed.
- Joint widths and expected movement are checked against what the sealant can take, and flag anything that needs an engineer.
- Every joint is cleared of the failed seal and any grit packed into it.
- 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.
Before we start on site
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
Request a quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, phone 01277 525 020 or email us.