Floor Joint Sealing in Hillswick
Floor joint sealing and filling in warehouses, factories and industrial units across Hillswick, carried out by CSCS-carded applicators. Fully insured and CHAS accredited.
- Cracked and crumbling joint fill
- Joint fill separating from the concrete
- Untidy open joints in a retail unit
Floor joint sealing in Hillswick
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
How we handle floor joint sealing in Hillswick
We have been sealing commercial joints since 2005. Applicators carry CSCS cards and work to your site rules, and the business is CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member holding public liability insurance. Completed joints come with a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship. If you’re dealing with untidy open joints in a retail unit and failing joints at loading bays and dock doors, we can put it right, whatever the surface. Most enquiries from Hillswick start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we look at the rest while we’re there and tell you what we find.
Around smaller Scottish places like Hillswick, slabs needing attention are often in agricultural buildings, workshops, schools and hotels. Slabs and yards take vehicles, rain and frost.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. It’s a plain promise: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Hillswick (ZE2)
- Region
- Shetland Islands
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Common problems we fix in Hillswick
Joints near dock doors see colder air, rain blown in and water off vehicles, as well as the tightest turning loads. They are often the first on a site to break down.
Site and facilities staff are often the first to spot these:
- Filler that has parted from one face
- A rough ride across broken joints
- Soft sealant dragged out of trafficked joints
- Unfilled floor joints collecting dirt and grit
Around Hillswick, open joints collect water and debris, and the arrises are the next to go; we’ll tell you if the edges need repairing first.
Questions to ask before you book
- What site paperwork they can supply
- How they’ll work around occupants
- The named product and why it was chosen
- Their public liability cover
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. Where we can, we combine work around Hillswick with other jobs nearby, to make the most of each trip. Tell us how flexible your dates are.
- We walk the floor and mark up joint widths, edge damage and traffic routes.
- The treatment and the zones are set out in a fixed quote.
- Each joint is cut or routed back to clean, sound concrete.
- We extract the dust and prime the faces if the product needs it.
- The joint is filled to its specified depth and trimmed level.
- We hand each phase back when it can take traffic.
What we need from you
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Flag any permit to work we will need
Get a fixed quote
To get a fixed quote, call the office on 01277 525 020 or send photos by email, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. Our quote form is another easy route.
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Questions we’re asked in Hillswick
Will you travel to Hillswick on the island?
Yes, Hillswick is within the area we cover. We work across every Scottish council area. We plan island jobs around the ferry and the forecast, and bring everything the job needs on the first crossing.
Will our site in Hillswick have to close for joint sealing?
Typically not: we work in sections and hand each one back once it has cured. Tell us which hours and entrances we can use and we’ll plan from there.
Do you offer coloured sealant?
It depends on the product. Some ranges offer many colours, others very few, so we’ll confirm the colours available for the specified product with the quote.
How many days will you need on site?
That varies with the scale of the job, though a typical visit usually takes between a day and a number of days, set by the joint lengths, the edge condition and the phasing you need. For bigger or phased jobs, we’ll set out a timescale with the quote.
How soon can traffic go back on the floor?
Cure times vary with the product and the conditions. You will get a reopening time for each area when we agree the phasing.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. Should the site need card details in advance, let us know and we’ll send them with the quote.
What about RAMS and site documents?
Tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm with the quote.
Floors, slabs and movement joints in Hillswick
Hillswick is within about 1 mile of the coast. 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. For an island location such as Hillswick, work is planned around ferry crossings and the weather. Joint widths, lengths and the traffic over them help us bring the right fillers and sealants.
Around Hillswick, each joint gets a filler or sealant matched to what crosses it and how much it moves.
Hillswick is in the Shetland Islands. Across the ZE2 postcode area, the process is the same: details in, fixed quote out, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. 63 places across the Shetland Islands fall within our area, including Hillswick.
We take on floor joints across the ZE2 postcode area, whatever the building. Just outside Hillswick, we also work in Urafirth (1 mile north-east), Braehoulland (3 miles north-west), Hogaland (4 miles east), Sullom (5 miles south-east) and Ollaberry (5 miles east). Island and remote sites need extra planning, with travel, ferry crossings where needed and weather to allow for, so give the site location in your enquiry.
Around Hillswick
We work on buildings around The Booth pub, among other places. Well-known places in the area include Tangwick Haa Museum (3.4 miles west). For a walk, there’s Ness-houlls Water.
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After the work
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- Keep grit out of unfilled joints in the meantime
- Ask drivers not to drag forks or pallets
- Mention any aggressive cleaning regime at quote stage
- Put loading bays at the top of the list
A routine walk of the busiest aisles shows how the joints are holding up. Look for separation down one side, new chips in the arris and debris gathering, and photograph anything that changes.
Regular inspection catches failing fills before the edges go. We can quote a programme that starts with the busiest areas and keeps on top of the rest.
What happens if it’s left?
Some runs only need partial renewal or topping up. If old material is sound on one face and only a fine gap has opened, it may not all have to come out, and we’ll say which joints need what. In Scotland, wind-driven rain finds a failed joint quickly, so it’s worth renewing joints around Hillswick before they leak.
Every site prices differently: the joint sizes, the specified product, access and working hours each have a bearing. Send the details and a fixed figure follows.
Why choose Mastic Doctor in Hillswick
- Old sealant cut out, never sealed over
- Fixed quotes based on photos, drawings or a visit
- One number for every site we cover
- CSCS-carded applicators
Read how commercial sealant jobs are priced or our accreditations.
Quoting for work in Hillswick
The price varies from site to site. Expect it to depend on:
- Whether the work must be split into stages
- The product specified
- Travel to remote or island sites
- Removal of failed or old sealant
The product called for affects the cost, as does the preparation each joint needs. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
What we need to price the job
To price the job accurately, we need to understand the site. Useful things to include:
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
- Anything awkward about access or site hours
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- A wide shot and a close-up of the area
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule and a fixed quote comes back to you. Where a site visit makes more sense, we will arrange one.
General trades versus a specialist
Paperwork matters too. Main contractors and clients often ask for CSCS cards, RAMS and insurance details, and our CSCS-carded applicators are used to working under those rules.
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.