Expansion Joint Sealing in Upstreet
Commercial sealant work in Upstreet for contractors, FMs and building owners: expansion and movement joint sealing in walls, decks and floors, quoted at a fixed price.
- Arrises breaking up along floor joints
- New sealant over old, now failing
- Brittle, chalky sealant on external joints
Expansion joint sealing in Upstreet
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 Upstreet
Brickwork and blockwork walls have vertical movement joints at intervals, and they’re easy to miss until the sealant fails. Once the seal fails, rain reaches the cavity and the joint can no longer close. The old seal comes out, backing goes in and a sealant with the right movement class is applied, primed where the manufacturer specifies. If you’re dealing with water getting into the wall through a failed joint and chipped joint edges on forklift routes, we can help, whatever the surface. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, in Upstreet it comes down to the same thing: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
Jobs around smaller places like Upstreet are planned so the whole job is done in one visit. Note joint widths and the traffic that uses them, and we will take it from there.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Place
- Upstreet (CT3)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Our process
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then we prepare and seal each joint with the specified product, and the job ends with a walk round and sign-off. Jobs in and around smaller places like Upstreet are usually planned as a single visit, so photographs and measurements up front really help. That way the right products come on the day.
- 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.
- The right sealant goes in at the right depth, bonded to the two sides only.
- Each area is handed back after its cure time, under our 12-month guarantee.
What we need from you
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
Get a fixed quote
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we will price against exactly what is specified. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photographs and a few notes.
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Cost factors for movement joints
These are the things that shape the price:
- How much existing material needs removing
- Induction, permit and paperwork requirements
- Any access equipment needed
- Travel to remote or island sites
No two sites price the same: joint size, product, access and site hours all play a part. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Details that help us quote
A few photographs plus some basic facts will normally do. Please tell us:
- Your programme or deadline
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- The product your specification calls for
- A wide shot and a close-up of the area
To get a fixed quote, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email us. You can also send details through our quote form.
Questions we’re asked in Upstreet
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as St Martins Hospital?
Yes. Healthcare sites are among the places we work. Before anything starts, the estates team agrees permits, inductions and infection-control measures with us.
Is Canterbury Industrial Park, near Upstreet, within your area?
Yes, sites like Canterbury Industrial Park are within our area, along with the rest of Upstreet. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
How do I request a quote?
You can use the quote form on this site; alternatively, phone 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings. Include photos or drawings if you have them.
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.
Who decides which product is used?
Where there’s a specification, we use the product it names. If not, we choose for the movement, the surfaces and the conditions, in line with the manufacturer’s guidance.
Can you quote from photos?
Photos, drawings or a schedule are often enough to quote. Where they aren’t, we arrange a site visit.
What exactly is a movement joint?
Movement joint is the broad term for any joint built in to let a structure move. On site, people tend to use them interchangeably.
What we can’t put right
Some faults sit outside our scope, and we point that out rather than sealing over them:
- Failed waterproofing membranes on podiums, roofs or decks (a waterproofing specialist’s job)
- Movement on a scale no sealant is meant to absorb
- Proprietary pre-formed expansion joint systems
Not sure which it is? You can ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will tell you honestly.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Car park decks and ramps
- Blockwork control joints
- Podiums and floor movement joints
- Cladding panel joints
- Precast concrete panel joints
- Brickwork movement joints
Slabs, ramps and loading bays in Upstreet
Central London is about 57 miles from Upstreet. The roads out of London are lined with trade parks and distribution sheds. Upstreet sits in one of the drier corners of the country, the South East. Even so, yard and car park joints are only sealed when they’re dry and clean, and gritting in cold spells finds its way into open joints.
Phasing is what makes joint work possible on busy sites such as Chislet Business Park (1.4 miles west of Upstreet): one bay, aisle or car park row at a time. A healthcare site such as St Martins Hospital (to the south-west of Upstreet) depends on car parks, ramps and service yards whose joints take traffic all day.
Upstreet is about 4 miles south-east of Herne Bay, in Kent. Upstreet sits inside our coverage and the rest of Kent, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Upstreet is one of 931 places in Kent on our list. There’s a separate page for London, about 57 miles away.
We cover the CT3 postcode districts. Streets here include St Mary's Gardens, Becketts Wood and Grove Ferry Hill. We also cover Grove (1 mile south), West Stourmouth (2 miles east), Sarre (2 miles north-east), Preston (2 miles south-east) and East Stourmouth (2 miles east) for movement joints. Nearby towns on our patch include Canterbury (6 miles south-west), Margate (9 miles north-east), Dover (14 miles south), Ramsgate (9 miles east), Broadstairs (10 miles east) and Whitstable (8 miles west).
Around Upstreet
Around Upstreet, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Grove Ferry Picnic Area, Spires Academy and The Grove Ferry Inn, among other places. The nearest railway station is Sturry station, roughly 3.8 miles south-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include St Martins Hospital (5.2 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include West Blean and Thornden Woods.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Some joints are best left to specialists: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
Redoing a failed joint typically costs more than getting it right at the outset, since all of it has to come out and the faces be cleaned back again. For that reason, many FMs and contractors use a sealant specialist from the outset.
When to call us in Upstreet
Sometimes the sealant holds but the substrate breaks away. Weak or crumbling concrete, brick or render edges give the sealant nothing sound to grip, so we tell you if the edges need repairing first.
Site and facilities staff are often the first to spot these:
- Debris jammed in movement joints
- Previous reseals laid over old sealant
- Water getting into the wall through a failed joint
- Chipped joint edges on forklift routes
Schools such as Chislet Church of England Primary School have movement joints in their walls and floors that are easy to overlook.
Questions to ask before you book
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Will RAMS and insurance details be available?
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
What the job involves on each surface
Concrete and precast panel joints
Precast and concrete panel joints move daily. We use a sealant classed for the movement, laid over backing to depth.
Joints between different materials
Hybrid or MS polymer sealants bond to many substrates. The choice depends on the substrates and how much the joint moves, and confirm it in the quote.