Industrial and floor joint sealing in Upper Hardres, Kent
We carry out floor joint sealing and filling in warehouses, factories and industrial units in Upper Hardres. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Open saw cuts full of debris
- Untidy open joints in a retail unit
- Trucks and loads jolting over damaged joints
Floor joint sealing for businesses in Upper Hardres
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Floor joint sealing for commercial buildings in Upper Hardres
We have been sealing commercial joints since 2005. Our CSCS-carded applicators follow your site induction and 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. The enquiries we see most involve unfilled floor joints collecting dirt and grit and cracked and crumbling joint fill, across saw-cut induced joints, construction joints and forklift and pallet-truck routes. Sealant contractors, mastic applicators, sealant specialists: whatever the job title on the order, the work in Upper Hardres is the same: failed joints cut out, faces prepared and the right sealant laid to the right depth.
In and around smaller places like Upper Hardres, the concrete floors we see are often in converted farm buildings, small workshops and storage units. Whether it’s a farm store turned workshop or a storage unit, the joints need a product that suits the traffic.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Location
- Upper Hardres (CT4)
- Region
- Kent
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
How the job changes by surface
Forklift and pallet-truck routes
Truck routes take traffic all day and the joints on them break down first. A semi-rigid filler is common here because it supports the arrises under hard wheels.
Loading bays and dock areas
Loading bays combine the heaviest turning loads with wet tyres and cold air from open doors. Joints here normally fail first, so they are often the place to start.
Signs you need floor joint sealing in Upper Hardres
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.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- A rough ride across broken joints
- Untidy open joints in a retail unit
- Broken arrises where pallet trucks cross
- Unfilled floor joints collecting dirt and grit
A campus such as University for the Creative Arts, 4.1 miles to the north of Upper Hardres, has long runs of movement joint in its buildings, decks and paving.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether their applicators hold CSCS cards
- Whether primer will be used where the manufacturer specifies it
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- How they handle RAMS and site documents
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Site rules come first: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. Once we’re cleared to begin, we take the joints in the sequence agreed with you. Smaller jobs around Upper Hardres can be grouped with others nearby, which keeps travel down. A fixed quote is given before anything starts.
- First comes a walk of the floor to record joint sizes, broken edges and traffic routes.
- A fixed quote follows, listing the treatment for each area and the order of work.
- Old filler, debris and contamination are cut or routed out back to clean concrete.
- Dust is extracted from the joint and primer applied where the manufacturer specifies it.
- Filler or sealant goes in to the right depth and is finished flush with the slab.
- Each phase reopens when the product is ready for wheels, then we start the next.
What we need from you
- Point out any areas we must not close
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
Quotes
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To start the process, ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
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Questions we’re asked in Upper Hardres
Is a smaller place like Upper Hardres outside your area?
No. Small places get the same service as large ones. We cover Greater London and the counties of the South East. We plan jobs in smaller places so return trips are kept to a minimum.
Will our site in Upper Hardres have to close for joint sealing?
Rarely. Work is phased around your operations. The phasing plan comes with the quote.
Do you use semi-rigid filler or flexible sealant on floor joints?
It depends on the traffic and the movement. Trafficked joints on truck routes typically need a semi-rigid filler to support the edges, while joints that move more take a flexible sealant.
Do you repair broken joint edges?
We check the edges as part of the survey. Damaged edges are flagged up front, so nothing is filled that won’t hold.
Will your applicators have CSCS cards?
Yes. We use CSCS-carded applicators, as many construction sites ask for.
What information helps you price floor joint sealing?
Approximate metres of joint, photographs of typical and worst areas, and a floor plan let us give a quick quote. For larger floors, a site visit is often best so phone 01277 525 020 or email us to set one up.
Can you phase floor joint work around operations?
In the majority of cases, just the area being treated is coned off. Traffic returns to each zone once it has cured, then we move to the next.
When to bring in 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.
Some joints are best left to specialists: for example fire-rated seals that must match a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints. Getting these wrong typically costs more in the end than doing them right.
Owners, agents and contractors
Building owners and managing agents use us on everything from one building to a spread of sites around Upper Hardres. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, we are straightforward to vet for your supplier list. Our insurance certificate can be sent along with the quote.
Why act early in Upper Hardres
Tape, or whatever sealant is in the stores cupboard, may look like a fix for a while. None of it is designed for wheel loads and traffic soon pulls it out. A product chosen for the traffic and movement does the job once. One visit to deal with every failing joint makes more sense than several trips to a place like Upper Hardres. Photos of every joint help us quote for the whole job.
Larger quantities, tricky access or phasing all shape the price. So do site requirements such as inductions and permits.
Why us?
- Work to your specification and the manufacturer’s guidance
- Fixed quotes based on photos, drawings or a visit
- Work carried out by CSCS-carded applicators
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
See what affects the cost or our accreditations and insurance.
Joints that move: notes for Upper Hardres
Upper Hardres lies roughly 54 miles out from central London. The roads out of London are lined with trade parks and distribution sheds; their floors carry heavy traffic every shift. Upper Hardres is in the South East, one of the UK’s drier regions. External slab and deck joints still need a dry, clean joint to seal, and winter de-icing salt on car parks and ramps works into any open joint.
Hospital campuses such as Kent and Canterbury Hospital (3.5 miles north of Upper Hardres) grow in stages, leaving movement joints wherever new blocks meet old.
Upper Hardres is about 4 miles south of Canterbury, in Kent. Upper Hardres sits inside our coverage and the rest of Kent, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. Our Kent coverage takes in 931 places. Sites around London have their own page, roughly 54 miles from Upper Hardres.
Work on floor joints is covered throughout CT4, for business premises of every kind. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Broxhall Road and Hardres Court Road. Nearby places we also cover include Lynsore Bottom (1 mile south-east), Pett Bottom (1 mile north-east), Lower Hardres (1 mile north), Petham (2 miles west) and Street End (2 miles north). Nearby towns on our patch include Ashford (11 miles south-west), Canterbury (4 miles north), Dover (11 miles south-east), Folkestone (10 miles south), Whitstable (10 miles north) and Deal (13 miles east).
Landmarks near Upper Hardres
Around Upper Hardres, our work takes us to commercial buildings near The Duck pub. The closest station to Upper Hardres is Bekesbourne station, roughly 3.9 miles north-east. Well-known places in the area include Canterbury Castle (4.1 miles north) and Kent and Canterbury Hospital (3.5 miles north).