Tilgate facade sealing
We carry out facade joint and window perimeter sealing on commercial buildings in Tilgate and the surrounding area. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Water coming in around window frames
- Weathered joints at frame-to-structure perimeters
- Draughts around frames and panels
Facade sealing near Tilgate
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
Why it’s worth doing now in Tilgate
Open facade joints also let air and dirt through: draughts around frames add to heating costs and complaints. Resealing deals with the draught as well as the leak. For buildings in places like Tilgate, one well-planned visit beats several small ones, so we’d suggest renewing all the joints that are going, not just the worst.
The specified product makes a difference, as does the preparation each joint needs, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
Why us?
- Colour agreed before work starts
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Constructionline member
- Coloured sealants to suit the setting, where available
Read how commercial sealant jobs are priced and our accreditations and insurance.
How we handle facade sealing in Tilgate
Some clients need every window on a block resealed; others need a few leaking frames sorted. Either way, the method is the same: old sealant out, faces cleaned, depth set and a new bead tooled in. Each job carries our 12-month guarantee. Most enquiries involve gaps between rainscreen or cladding panels and patch repairs that keep failing, across stone and brick facade joints, shopfront frames and coping and flashing joints. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, in Tilgate it comes down to the same thing: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
Around places like Tilgate, a lot of construction is the conversion of older buildings, which leaves joints between old walls and new frames that need a sealant able to take the movement.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: preparation, application and finish. Damage, later alterations by others and movement beyond what the joint was designed for sit outside it.
- Location
- Tilgate (RH10, RH11)
- Wider area
- West Sussex
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
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Common questions from Tilgate clients
Is Denvale Trade Park, near Tilgate, within your area?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Tilgate, Denvale Trade Park among them, are all within reach. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Will you plan work around the academic year at somewhere like Crawley College?
Yes. We plan campus work around teaching, exams and residence turnarounds. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and paperwork such as RAMS is confirmed with the quote.
Do you work to architects’ specifications?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and the quote will be based on it.
Do you seal on top of existing sealant?
No, never. Sealing over old material is one of the classic causes of early joint failure, so everything comes out first.
Can you just add new sealant on top?
No. New sealant won’t hold on old sealant, so the old bead is cut away and the faces are cleaned before resealing. That is what makes the new joint last.
Can you handle several sites?
Yes. Several buildings can share a single quote, with one point of contact across South East England, Greater London and Scotland.
How do I request a quote?
There are four steps: send details, receive a fixed quote, we carry out the work, and it’s guaranteed. Step one needs little more than photos and a postcode.
What we can’t put right
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It won’t put right:
- Installing or repairing glazing systems
- Arranging specialist high-level access, which is planned with the client
- Joints whose design needs changing by the specifier
Not sure which it is? You can speak to us on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Shopfront frames
- Coping and flashing joints
- Cladding panel joints
- Stone and brick facade joints
- Window and door perimeters
- Perimeter joints where frames meet the structure
When to call us in Tilgate
When sealant lets go of a frame or panel, the cause is often the preparation. Dust, old sealant residue, damp or a missing primer stop it bonding properly, and the joint opens with the first real movement.
Any of the following is a good reason to get the joints checked over:
- Unsightly perimeter sealant on a visible elevation
- Old perimeter mastic that has dried out
- Leaks at window and door perimeters
- Failed seals around shopfront and entrance frames
For a contractor working at a hospital such as Crawley Hospital (1.2 miles north-west of Tilgate), perimeter and facade sealing is planned around patients and deliveries.
Questions to ask before you book
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- The named product and why it was chosen
- Will RAMS and insurance details be available?
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
On site: what to expect
Site rules come first: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. Once we are cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you, and each area is checked before we leave it. If neighbouring businesses or buildings around Tilgate need work too, visits can be combined. Tell us your site hours and we’ll plan around them.
- We look at the joints, the drawings and the access before pricing.
- Failed sealant is cut out along its full length.
- Joint faces are cleaned to firm, sound material, with primer where the sealant maker specifies it.
- Closed-cell rod fixes the depth, and the sealant grips two sides only.
- A facade-grade sealant rated for the movement goes in, tooled to a concave profile.
- The completed runs are checked with you, then the 12-month guarantee applies.
Preparing the site
- Make sure the joints can be reached
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
Getting a fixed quote
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a site visit.
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Owners, agents and contractors
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Tilgate can sit alongside others in a wider programme.
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients book us directly too. The work is planned around how the building runs, so the building keeps working while we do.
Facade sealing around Tilgate: points for this area
Tilgate sits in or beside Crawley, a twentieth-century planned town. Many of its original buildings are reaching the age for recladding and new windows, with mastic packages to match. The South East is one of the drier parts of the UK. Still, external mastic needs dry faces within the maker’s temperature limits, which isn’t every day, which is why external dates are agreed with the site manager.
Projects at schools like The Oaks Primary School & Nursery work to term dates, so mastic is programmed tightly. For contractors at a college like Crawley College, 0.8 miles to the north of Tilgate, perimeters and internal sealant are timed for the holidays.
Tilgate is about 1 mile south-east of Crawley, in West Sussex. We send applicators to Tilgate for facade joints. Across West Sussex, 373 places are covered, including Tilgate. Sites around Brighton have their own page, roughly 19 miles from Tilgate.
Work on facade joints is covered throughout RH10 and RH11, whatever the building. Among the streets we cover are York Road, Nash Road and Cook Road. We also cover Southgate (1 mile west), Crawley (1 mile north-west), Three Bridges (1 mile north-east), Maidenbower (1 mile east) and West Green (1 mile north-west) for facade joints. Bigger towns within reach include Horsham (7 miles south-west), Haywards Heath (8 miles south-east), Burgess Hill (10 miles south), East Grinstead (7 miles east), Billingshurst (13 miles south-west) and Roffey (6 miles west).
Landmarks near Tilgate
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Thomas Bennett Community College, The Grasshopper pub and Tilgate Park, among other places. The closest station to Tilgate is Crawley station, roughly 0.6 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include County Mall (0.7 miles north-west) and Crawley Hospital (1.2 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Tilgate Lake.
Different surfaces, different methods
Coping and flashing joints
Coping and flashing joints are included where sealant is the specified fix. These joints take full exposure to weather and need a durable external sealant.
Brick and stone facades
Stone can absorb plasticisers from the wrong sealant. The specified stone-compatible sealant is what we use.