Facade and window perimeter sealing in Furnace Wood, West Sussex

Surface by surface

Coping and flashing joints

Not every coping or flashing leak is a sealant problem. We tell you if the fix is a roofing or metalwork job rather than a reseal.

Perimeter joints at frames and structure

These frame-to-structure joints take a lot of movement and weather. They are cut out, cleaned, backed and resealed.

General trades versus a specialist

Redoing a failed joint normally costs more than getting it right at the outset, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. For that reason, many FMs and contractors use a sealant specialist from the outset.

Certain joints really need a specialist: 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.

Commercial clients in Furnace Wood

For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor, on new build and refurbishment alike. Programme, specification and site rules come first, and our applicators hold CSCS cards.

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. Keys, access and contacts can be agreed in advance.

Facade sealing around Furnace Wood: points for this area

There are several hotels within about 2 miles of Furnace Wood. When hotels extend or refit, the work is typically squeezed between peak periods, mastic included. Rainfall across the South East, Furnace Wood included, is lower than in many parts of the UK. That doesn’t stop wet spells, or frosty starts that leave panels too damp to seal, so external mastic is timed for workable conditions and agreed with the site manager.

When units on a site such as Silverwood Industrial Estate (0.9 miles west of Furnace Wood) are refurbished or reclad, the panel joints and window perimeters are part of the mastic package. Work at a hotel such as Copthorne Hotel Effingham Park (0.8 miles west of Furnace Wood) tends to be programmed around bookings, mastic included. With historic properties like Saint Hill Manor (to the south-east of Furnace Wood) in the area, refurbishment work often meets old masonry that needs compatible sealants.

Furnace Wood is about 3 miles west of East Grinstead, in West Sussex. Commercial clients in Furnace Wood can call on us for facade joints, as part of our coverage of West Sussex. Across West Sussex, 373 places are covered, including Furnace Wood. Sites around Brighton have their own page, roughly 21 miles from Furnace Wood.

We take on facade joints across the RH19 postcode area, whatever the building. If your site is on Lake View Road, Felcot Road and Furnace Farm Road or close by, send details and we’ll quote for facade joints. If your building is just outside Furnace Wood, we cover Domewood (1 mile north-west), Snow Hill (1 mile west), Felbridge (1 mile east), Crawley Down (1 mile south) and Newchapel (2 miles north-east). Further afield, our area takes in Crawley (6 miles west), Horsham (12 miles south-west), Haywards Heath (10 miles south), Burgess Hill (13 miles south), East Grinstead (3 miles east) and Broadfield (7 miles south-west).

Near you in Furnace Wood

Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Imberhorne School, among other places. For rail, the closest station is East Grinstead station, roughly 2.5 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Effingham Park Motor Museum (0.9 miles west) and Queen Victoria Hospital (3.1 miles east). Open spaces near Furnace Wood include Hedgecourt Lake.