Fernieside floor joint sealing
Sealant work in Fernieside for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: floor joint sealing and filling in warehouses, factories and industrial units, quoted at a fixed price.
- Filler that has parted from one face
- Sealant pulled out along a truck route
- Cracked and crumbling joint fill
Floor joint sealing in Fernieside
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Slabs, ramps and loading bays in Fernieside
Fernieside lies within about 3 miles of the sea. External movement joints in car parks, ramps and yards near the coast take salt and wind-driven rain on top of traffic, and edges left open tend to break up faster. At least three named trading, business or retail sites lie within about 3 miles of Fernieside. Sites like these are full of saw-cut floor joints, yard slabs and car park joints.
Hospital campuses such as Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, 0.7 miles north-west of Fernieside, grow in stages, leaving movement joints wherever new blocks meet old. University campuses such as University of Edinburgh Bioquarter (to the north of Fernieside) have car parks, paved walkways and building elevations with movement joints.
Fernieside is about 3 miles north of Bonnyrigg, in Edinburgh. Looking for floor joint sealing in Fernieside? We can help. Fernieside is one of 174 places we cover in Edinburgh for floor joints.
If you need floor joint sealing in EH17, EH16 and EH22, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Drum Avenue, Gilmerton Road and Craigour Avenue. Access to Fernieside is via the A772. If your building is just outside Fernieside, we cover Ferniehill (1 mile south), Moredun (1 mile north-west), Craigour (1 mile north-west), Gilmerton (1 mile south) and Little France (1 mile north-west). Further afield, our area takes in Edinburgh (4 miles north-west), Leith (5 miles north), Bonnington (4 miles north-west), Greenside (4 miles north-west), Broughton (4 miles north-west) and Bellevue (4 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in Fernieside
Around Fernieside, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Drum Park and the streets around them. The closest station to Fernieside is Shawfair station, about 1.6 miles east. A little further out are Natural History Collections (1.8 miles north-west) and Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (1.6 miles north-west). Not far away are Nether Hill and Duddingston Loch.
Floor joint sealing in Fernieside, done properly
Most industrial slabs are divided into panels with saw cuts and day joints, and every one of those joints is an exposed edge under hard wheels. We fill or seal them with a product matched to the traffic and the movement so the edges are held up and debris can’t pack in. If you’re dealing with open saw cuts full of debris and dock area joints that have failed first, we can put it right, whatever the surface. Looking for mastic applicators who cover Fernieside? Mastic Doctor has worked for contractors, FMs and building owners since 2005, CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member.
Older stone buildings in Scotland’s cities often have later extensions, with movement joints where old meets new. Those joints need a sealant with the right movement capability, sized to the gap.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. That covers our preparation and application.
- Place
- Fernieside (EH17, EH16, EH22)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Looking after the joints
Regular inspection catches problems early. Specifically:
- Ask drivers not to drag forks or pallets
- Make joint checks part of your floor inspections
- Keep trucks off new joints until we say they’re ready
- Mention any aggressive cleaning regime at quote stage
Keep traffic off fresh joints until the time we give you, and it’s worth enforcing. Cones or barriers stop the first driver cutting the corner.
Joints are easiest to look after when someone checks them regularly. We can quote a programme that starts with the busiest areas so nothing is left to fail.
Common problems we fix in Fernieside
Unfilled joints soon pack with grit, shrink-wrap scraps and pallet splinters. That debris is hard and levers at the edges as wheels pass so the arrises break sooner.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Old filler gone hard, cracked or loose
- Unfilled floor joints collecting dirt and grit
- Flexible sealant torn out by wheels
- Scruffy, dirty joint lines on a shop or showroom floor
At a retail site such as Craigmillar Shopping Centre, 1.4 miles north of Fernieside, joints in car parks, service yards and sales floors carry cars, cages and trolleys every day.
Before you book anyone
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- The named product and why it was chosen
Quoting for work in Fernieside
What shapes the price:
- Which sealant the job calls for
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- How much there is to seal
- Working within restricted access windows
Whether it’s a single area or a whole estate, the same things set the price: what’s in scope, how we reach it, what’s specified and when it needs doing. Call for a quote, and you will have a fixed figure to work with.
Before you send an enquiry
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, these details speed things up:
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- The type of building and who uses it
- The site address and postcode
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we will price the work to it. For smaller jobs, photos and a description will do.
Common questions from Fernieside clients
Do you take on work at healthcare sites like Royal Hospital for Children and Young People?
Yes, provided the work is planned with the site’s estates team. Before anything starts, the estates team agrees permits, inductions and infection-control measures with us.
Our building in Fernieside is near the coast: does that change the sealant?
It can. Driven rain and salt are tougher on outside sealant than sheltered inland conditions. Product choice and preparation matter more, and sea-facing elevations are worth inspecting more often.
Is the floor joint work guaranteed?
Our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee and the work is covered by public liability insurance.
Will your applicators have CSCS cards?
Yes. Should the site need card details in advance, tell us and we’ll confirm them with the quote.
Why has the filler pulled away from one side?
Young concrete carries on shrinking for a long time, so a semi-rigid filler can part from one face. A top-up normally puts it right.
Do you work in Fernieside?
Yes. Fernieside falls within our area, and you can call 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form to get started.
When can forklifts run over new joint filler?
The wait is set by the product’s cure time, and cold floors slow it down. We plan the phasing so that waiting time fits your operation.
How a job runs
At the end of each section, the masking comes off, the area is cleaned and every joint is checked. Where the sealant needs time to cure before use, we tell you and sign the area. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- A floor survey records every joint, its edges and what crosses it.
- The treatment and the zones are set out in a fixed quote.
- Each joint is cut or routed back to clean, sound concrete.
- Dust is vacuumed out and primer applied where specified.
- The joint is filled to its specified depth and trimmed level.
- We hand each phase back when it can take traffic.
Before we start on site
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Explain the parking and delivery arrangements
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
Ask for a quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Advice
Why it’s worth doing now in Fernieside
Duct tape or a general builders’ sealant can seem to buy some time. Neither is made to carry wheels, and it typically ends up dragged across the floor. The right filler or sealant saves doing it twice. Getting access arranged for a building in Fernieside takes time, so deal with all failing joints while access is up.
No two sites price the same: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Why us?
- Joints cleaned back to sound surfaces
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- CHAS accredited
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or how we’re accredited.
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Work for main contractors and building owners
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor. Programme, specification and site rules come first.
Building owners and managing agents use us on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around Fernieside. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.