Sciennes floor joint sealing
Work needed on a floor joint in Sciennes? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Dock area joints that have failed first
- Broken arrises where pallet trucks cross
- Grimy joint lines spoiling a showroom floor
Floor joint sealing near Sciennes
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Why it’s worth doing now in Sciennes
Holding off until the whole floor can close can take a long time. Phased in zones, the busiest routes can be treated first while the rest of the floor carries on. In a tenement or shared city building, water from a failed joint can reach other owners’ property, which makes early repair simpler for everyone. Acting early avoids disputes and bigger repairs.
Pricing floor joints depends on quantities, condition and access, plus any specification you are working to. Ask us for a fixed quote.
What you get with us
- Clear, fixed quotes
- One number for every site we cover
- Products installed to the manufacturer’s instructions
- Workmanship guaranteed for 12 months
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Floor joint sealing in Sciennes, done properly
A working floor can rarely be closed for days on end, so we phase the work aisle by aisle or bay by bay. Share your site hours and access windows and the programme is built around them so the rest of the operation keeps going. If you have filler that has parted from one face and flexible sealant torn out by wheels, we can help, on forklift and pallet-truck routes, construction joints and loading bays alike. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Sciennes from the first photographs to the final walk-round, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
In Scotland’s cities, buildings from car parks and malls to university and hospital estates rely on movement joints. Failed joints let water in, and repeated frost then works on the edges.
Every job is signed off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if our work fails within that year, we put it right.
- Location
- Sciennes (EH9, EH8, EH3)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Doing it in-house
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.
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are easy to get wrong without experience.
What sealant work can’t fix
Before quoting, we check that sealant is the right answer. It won’t put right:
- Cracks across panels caused by settlement or overload
- A floor that is out of level for the racking or trucks
- Broken concrete either side of the joint
If in doubt, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll say what we think before you book.
What we seal
- Forklift and pallet-truck routes
- Construction joints
- Loading bays
- Saw-cut induced joints
- Retail and showroom floors
- Joints along racking aisles
Questions we are asked in Sciennes
Can you take on a job at a hospital such as Astley Ainslie Hospital?
Yes. We work in healthcare settings as well as offices and schools. Work is phased so departments keep running, under the site’s own rules.
Can you work at a site such as Blackford Business Park, by Sciennes?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Sciennes, Blackford Business Park among them, are all within reach. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and the quote will be based on it, flagging anything that needs clarifying.
What if there’s asbestos in the old mastic?
The duty to manage asbestos sits with the building’s dutyholder, so for older buildings we ask for the asbestos register first. Work pauses if suspect material is found, until it has been tested.
How do you choose the sealant?
The specification comes first, if there is one. Without one, the joint decides: how much it moves, what it bonds to and whether it’s wet, trafficked or fire-rated.
How long will the new sealant last?
There isn’t a single answer, because life depends on how much the joint moves, how exposed it is and how it’s cleaned and used. Regular checks let you plan resealing before leaks or damage.
Are your applicators CSCS-carded?
Yes. We use CSCS-carded applicators, which many sites require.
Owners, agents and contractors
If you look after buildings for someone else, clear figures and clear communication matter. We quote a fixed sum, confirm the scope and walk the finished work with you or your representative, plus a 12-month guarantee.
Blocks and communal areas make up much of the work for housing associations and agents. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
From enquiry to sign-off
A typical day starts with protection: masking tape along the joint edges and sheeting over anything nearby. The work itself typically takes a day or more, depending on the metres of joint and how many zones the floor is split into, and our waste is bagged and taken away as we go. 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.
- 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.
- Old fill and packed debris come out until both faces are sound.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Move anything stored against the joints
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
Quotes
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price the work to it. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photographs and a few notes.
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Flexible floor sealants
Where joints move more, a flexible polyurethane floor sealant is often used. They give less edge support than semi-rigid fillers, so they suit lighter traffic or movement joints.
Forklift and pallet-truck routes
Joints on busy routes need a fill that sits flush and resists impact. Wheel type and traffic level steer the product choice.
Joints that move: notes for Sciennes
Sciennes 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, so it pays to keep them sealed. Sciennes is in the east of Scotland, which is drier than the west. Frost and winter road salt still work into open joints in car parks and yards. Resealing before the cold months helps protect the edges.
Large sites such as Astley Ainslie Hospital, 0.8 miles south-west of Sciennes, have car parks, service roads and long elevations with movement joints in brick and panels. Office parks like Blackford Business Park (to the south of Sciennes) have decks, ramps and clad elevations whose joints take movement every day. For estates staff at a university like University of Edinburgh, less than half a mile to the north of Sciennes, building and paving joints are part of the planned maintenance list.
Sciennes is about 1 mile south-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Anywhere in EH9, the process is the same: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. Across Edinburgh, 174 places are covered, Sciennes among them.
If you need floor joint sealing in EH9, EH8 and EH3, the process matches everywhere else we work: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Buildings on Lauder Road, Meadow Lane and Grange Road are within our area. Sciennes sits on or close to the A700, which helps when planning parking and deliveries for the job. Close to Sciennes, our area also takes in The Grange (1 mile south), Marchmont (1 mile west), Newington (1 mile east), Burgh Muir (1 mile south) and Buccleuch (1 mile north). Nearby towns on our patch include Leith (3 miles north), North Leith (3 miles north), Queensferry (9 miles west), Timber Bush (3 miles north), South Portobello (3 miles east) and Southhouse (3 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Sciennes
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Meadows, St Trinnean's School and James Gillespie's High School. You’ll also find 15-16 Argyle Place pub (less than half a mile west), St Cuthbert's Church (1.1 miles north-west) and National Museums Scotland Library (0.6 miles north). For rail, the closest station is Edinburgh Waverley station, roughly 0.9 miles north. Nearby you will also find Meadows Dental Clinic (under half a mile south-west) and Edinburgh Castle (0.9 miles north-west). For a walk, there’s Dunsapie Loch and The New Leaf Co-op.