Lower Hardres facade sealing
Facade joint and window perimeter sealing on commercial buildings throughout Lower Hardres and nearby, carried out by CSCS-carded applicators. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Perimeter joints where frames meet the structure
- Air leaks through failed facade joints
- Damp patches beside frames after rain
Facade sealing in Lower Hardres
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Lower Hardres: questions and answers
Is Lower Hardres too small for you to travel to?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. We cover Greater London and the counties of the South East. Good photographs up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Is a hospital such as The Chaucer Hospital somewhere you can work?
Yes, hospitals are one of the sectors we cover. The estates team’s permit system and infection-control rules come first, and the work is planned around them.
Will you check whether the sealant is causing the leak?
Yes. We check the sealant joints and report what we find. Where the cause seems to be elsewhere, we’d rather tell you than reseal pointlessly.
How do we ask for a quote?
There are four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. The first step only needs photographs and a postcode.
How long before the joints can be used?
Curing time varies by product, and we confirm it on the day, and flag anything to keep off until it has cured.
Are you CHAS accredited?
Yes. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member.
Do you have public liability insurance?
Yes. We are fully insured, including public liability cover.
Facade sealing in Lower Hardres
External joints face UV, rain, temperature swings and building movement all year, and they wear out over time. How long a joint lasts depends on the movement it takes, its exposure, the product and how well it was installed. When the time comes, we cut the old sealant out completely and start again. If you’re dealing with weathered facade joints that have lost their grip and cold air coming in at window perimeters, we can put it right, whatever the surface. Looking for mastic applicators who cover Lower Hardres? We’ve been sealing commercial buildings since 2005.
In the countryside around places like Lower Hardres, conversion schemes put new frames into old stone, flint, brick or timber. Those joints need a sealant that suits an uneven, sometimes porous surface, and often a colour chosen for the building.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. That covers our preparation and application, and if something we did falls short, we return to it.
- Where
- Lower Hardres (CT4)
- Region
- Kent
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Do you need facade sealing in Lower Hardres?
The wrong product causes its share of trouble: an acetoxy cure can mark stone or corrode some metals, and interior products break down outdoors. Most external joints call for a neutral-cure, facade-grade sealant.
Typical triggers for a call:
- Cold air coming in at window perimeters
- New sealant peeling off old mastic
- Unsightly perimeter sealant on a visible elevation
- Facade joints cracked through the middle
Further education sites such as Canterbury College, 2.9 miles north of Lower Hardres, are extended and refurbished from time to time, with mastic often programmed into the summer break.
Comparing quotes
- How long is the guarantee, and what does it include?
- What site paperwork they can supply
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
What sealant work can’t fix
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. Sealant alone won’t deal with:
- Water getting in through cracked render or porous masonry
- Cracked or spalling substrates that need repair before sealing
- Specialist high-level access methods
Not sure which it is? You can phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email and we’ll tell you honestly.
Where we work in Lower Hardres
- Coping and flashing joints
- Perimeter joints where frames meet the structure
- Shopfront frames
- Stone and brick facade joints
- Cladding panel joints
- Window and door perimeters
Also near Lower Hardres
What else we do in Lower Hardres
On site: what to expect
At the end of each section, we remove the tape, clean down and inspect every joint with your site contact. If an area should be left alone while the sealant cures, we say how long and put signs out. Jobs in and around smaller places like Lower Hardres are typically planned as a single visit, so we ask for photos and rough sizes first. Then the right materials arrive with us.
- First we review photos, drawings or what we saw on a visit, and agree how each joint will be reached.
- Failed sealant is cut out along its full length.
- Both faces are cleaned and, where the product needs it, primed.
- Backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints, limits the depth.
- The new sealant goes in and is tooled firmly onto both faces.
- We walk the finished joints with you before handing over.
Before we start on site
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Arrange parking or a loading space
Request a quote
Every job follows the same four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. The first step is to call 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with what you know.
Related advice
Facades, frames and programmes in Lower Hardres
Lower Hardres is in the South East, one of the UK’s drier regions. Still, external mastic needs dry faces within the maker’s temperature limits, which isn’t every day, so we time external mastic for dry faces and agree it with the site team. Lower Hardres lies roughly 54 miles out from central London. Commuter-belt towns tend to see a steady flow of new flats, offices and commercial schemes, so mastic packages have to keep pace with busy programmes.
Hospital estates such as The Chaucer Hospital (1.9 miles north of Lower Hardres) tend to grow and change in phases, often next to occupied wards, so facade and perimeter sealing has to fit the estates team’s plan. For contractors refurbishing units at places like Wincheap Industrial Estate, 2.7 miles to the north of Lower Hardres, the mastic covers cladding panels, roller-door and window perimeters.
Lower Hardres is about 3 miles south of Canterbury, in Kent. We cover commercial sites throughout Lower Hardres. Our Kent coverage takes in 931 places. For work in that direction, see our London page.
Commercial sites across CT4 are covered for facade joints. We also cover Street End (1 mile north), Pett Bottom (1 mile south-east), Nackington (1 mile north), Upper Hardres (1 mile south) and Petham (2 miles south-west). Nearby towns on our patch include Ashford (11 miles south-west), Canterbury (3 miles north), Dover (12 miles south-east), Folkestone (11 miles south), Whitstable (8 miles north) and Deal (14 miles east).
Local landmarks in Lower Hardres
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Duck pub. For rail, the closest station is Canterbury East station, roughly 2.7 miles north of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Kent and Canterbury Hospital (2.2 miles north) and Whitefriars Shopping Centre (2.9 miles north). For a walk, there’s Blean Woods RSPB Reserve.
What sets the cost
There’s no standard rate for sealant work, because every site is different. What we look at:
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- How much there is to seal
- How accessible the joints are
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: scope, access, product and programme. Call for a quote and we’ll put a fixed figure on it.
What to include in your enquiry
However big the job, these details speed things up:
- Approximate linear metres or a joint schedule
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- The type of building and who uses it
- The postcode of the building
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and a fixed quote will follow. To get it moving, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email us.
Commercial clients in Lower Hardres
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Lower Hardres can sit alongside others in a wider programme.
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. The work is planned around how the building runs, so the building keeps working while we do.
General trades versus a specialist
For a quick touch-up, site staff may be fine, but larger jobs are different: a specialist works through quantities efficiently, leaves a consistent finish and backs it with a 12-month guarantee.
There’s also the paperwork. Many sites expect CSCS cards, RAMS and proof of insurance, and our CSCS-carded applicators are used to working under those rules.