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Mastic Sealing in Scottish Borders

Wherever your site is in the Scottish Borders, we cover mastic sealing in all 91 towns and villages, with a fixed quote and a 12-month guarantee.

Need mastic sealing in Scottish Borders?

Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.

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Mastic sealing across the Scottish Borders

Mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations. Choose your town from the list to see local details, or send details for a fixed quote.

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About mastic sealing in the Scottish Borders

We diagnose before we prescribe: what has failed, what caused it and whether new sealant will actually solve it. Old mastic is removed entirely, the faces prepared, primer used where the maker specifies it and new sealant tooled in and backing rod used wherever a joint is deep. Site teams most often ask us about draught complaints from residents or tenants and brittle perimeter mastic across a building, across communal kitchens and washrooms, external wall and movement joints and balcony and threshold joints.

Site rules come first: sign-in, induction and whatever permit system the building uses. Once we’re cleared to begin, the joints are worked through in the order agreed with your site contact, and each area is checked before we leave it.

We inspect the joints, building by building, and record what has failed and why.
A fixed quote follows, split by block or building if that suits you.
The sequence and the dates are fixed with you, giving you what you need to notify occupiers.
We remove the old mastic completely and clean the joint faces back.
Backing rod and primer go in as the joint requires, then the new bead is placed and tooled.
Completed joints are inspected and carry a 12-month workmanship guarantee.

Pricing in the Scottish Borders

Pricing mastic joints depends on quantities, condition and access, plus any specification you’re working to. Call for a quote.

Why clients in the Scottish Borders choose us

Work to your specification and the manufacturer’s guidance
Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
One number for every site we cover
Clear, fixed quotes

Ask for a quote

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.

Local landmarks in Galashiels

Around Galashiels, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Galashiels, Public House and Galashiels Academy and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in Galashiels itself: Galashiels station. Other landmarks nearby include Borders General Hospital (2.7 miles south-east) and Castle Holydean (4.4 miles south-east). Not far away are Eildon Mid Hill.

Mastic sealing across the Scottish Borders: the area picture

Buildings across the Scottish Borders range from older blocks with replacement windows to recent developments. We inspect the whole building first, so you know which joints need doing now.

Across the Scottish Borders, outside sealant work is planned around the weather, with a little give in the programme for wet or frosty days. Along the coast in the Scottish Borders, hospitality buildings tend to be busiest in the summer months, so work is often best planned for quieter months.

Galashiels: Student accommodation around universities such as Heriot-Watt University - Scottish Borders Campus (0.9 miles south-east of Galashiels) is normally managed block by block, which suits a planned mastic programme. For agents with blocks near Galashiels station, which lies north of Galashiels, a block-wide mastic programme deals with frames, balconies and entrances in one go.

After the work

Keep the joints in good shape with a few simple steps:

Reduce knocks to communal area joints
Make it easy for occupiers to report draughts
Share your contractor requirements early
Prioritise elevations facing the weather

Add mastic joints to your cyclical inspections. Watch for splits, open gaps, hard or chalky surfaces and mastic pulling away and record where they are.

Joints on a building age together so a single failure is a sign to check the rest. A planned reseal saves repeated visits.

Leave it or put it right?

Looking at mastic during planned maintenance costs little. Leaving it until there’s a leak turns it into reactive work and less choice about when.

Questions to ask before you book

Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
Do they follow the manufacturer’s priming guidance?
Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
Proof of insurance

When it isn’t the sealant

Being straight saves everyone time. New sealant won’t cure:

Failed window or door frames, which need a window contractor
Water coming in from the roof or rainwater goods
Broken glass or failed sealed units

When to bring in a specialist

General builders and handymen seal joints, but it isn’t their main trade. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.

Redoing a failed joint normally costs more than getting it right at the outset, because the whole bead must be removed and the faces cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.

Surface by surface

Planned maintenance

Adding mastic to planned maintenance avoids reactive repairs and spreads the work.

Tenement and older buildings

Older mastic can contain asbestos, so we check the asbestos register or survey first. If it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested.

Questions about the Scottish Borders

Do you check for asbestos in old sealant?

In older buildings, old mastic can contain asbestos. We check the asbestos register or survey before disturbing it and suspect material is tested first.

Do you work to architects’ specifications?

Yes. The specification and the manufacturer’s installation guidance are what we work to.

When can the area be used after sealing?

Curing time varies by product, and we confirm it on the day, and sign any area that should be left alone.

What do you charge?

There isn’t a price list, as every site differs. Send photographs or drawings and we will price it at a fixed figure.

Can weather delay the job?

It can, for external work. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Internal work is far less affected.

What guarantee do you give on resealing?

Our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee, backed by public liability insurance.

Which sealant will you use?

The specification comes first, if there is one. Without one, the joint decides: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.