Craigmillar mastic sealing
Mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations across Craigmillar, by CSCS-carded applicators. CHAS accredited and fully insured.
- No planned programme for sealant
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
- Brittle perimeter mastic across a building
Mastic sealing in Craigmillar
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
What affects the price in Craigmillar
Quotes vary with the job. Expect it to depend on:
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Phasing around occupants
- How much there is to seal
- Travel to remote or island sites
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 we’ll put a fixed figure on it.
Details that help us quote
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, these details speed things up:
- When you need the work done
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
- Any specification or named product
- The type of building and who uses it
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we will arrange a site visit.
Mastic sealing in Craigmillar
Our clients include managing agents, property factors in Scotland, housing associations and landlords with block or commercial portfolios. A planned, building-by-building programme often works better than reacting to each complaint and we quote and schedule each building in turn. Site teams most often ask us about occupiers reporting cold air round windows and old repairs sealed over failed mastic, across window and door perimeters on blocks, shopfronts below residential blocks and communal entrances and stairwells. Whoever orders the work in Craigmillar, the brief is normally the same: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
Many of Scotland’s city tenements are looked after by property factors. Shared-part mastic work is typically agreed by the owners, often through the factor, and can cover a whole close or block.
We stand behind the joints we seal with a 12-month guarantee. It covers how we prepared and applied the sealant, and if something we did falls short, we return to it.
- Place
- Craigmillar (EH16, EH15)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Honest limits
We check first that sealant really is the fix. It isn’t the answer for:
- Materials that need asbestos testing before work
- Failed window or door frames, which need a window contractor
- Glazing that needs replacing
If you’re not sure, just call 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we’ll give you a straight answer before you book.
What we seal
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
- External wall and movement joints
- Communal entrances and stairwells
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- Balcony and threshold joints
Also near Craigmillar
Also in Craigmillar
From enquiry to sign-off
Working in a building that stays open takes some planning. We sign and contain the area we’re in, with routes through the building left open and move on in phases so staff and visitors can carry on around us. For premises in Craigmillar, tell us about access times, shared entrances and any building rules, and we will plan the work to suit, phased where areas need to stay in use.
- We check the asbestos register for older buildings and look at the joints.
- The products and programme are set out in a fixed quote.
- We strip out the old sealant.
- The joints are prepared and resealed with the right product.
- Buildings are completed in turn.
Preparing the site
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
Ask for a quote
Specifications, drawings and tender packages are welcome with any enquiry, and we will price the work to it. Smaller jobs need nothing more than photographs and a few notes.
Related advice
Frames, entrances and external joints in Craigmillar
Craigmillar sits close to the coast, within about 3 miles. Sea-facing elevations take driven rain and salt, and their mastic shows it before the sheltered sides do, so it’s worth inspecting those sides more often. There are seven care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Craigmillar. Frame mastic on care buildings is best renewed elevation by elevation, with the manager deciding timings.
Schools and community buildings such as Castlebrae Community High School need frame and external mastic kept sound like any building. Owners of student blocks near University of Edinburgh - Little France Campus (0.7 miles south of Craigmillar) can schedule frame and external mastic for the summer vacation. For owners of several units at places like Holyrood Business Park, which lies north-west of Craigmillar, one programme can deal with frame and external mastic across the lot.
Craigmillar is about 2 miles east of Newington, in Edinburgh. Businesses, contractors and managing agents in Craigmillar can call on us for mastic joints, as part of our coverage of Edinburgh. Across Edinburgh, 174 places are covered, including Craigmillar.
Commercial sites across EH16 and EH15 are covered for mastic joints. If your site is on Dunkirk Road, Harewood Road and Seacole Square or close by, send details and we will quote for mastic joints. Nearby places we also cover include Greendykes (1 mile east), Bridge End (1 mile south-west), Duddingston (1 mile north), Bingham (1 mile north-east) and Niddrie Mains (1 mile east) for mastic joints. Nearby towns on our patch include Edinburgh (3 miles west), Leith (4 miles north), Bonnington (3 miles north-west), Broughton (3 miles north-west), Bellevue (3 miles north-west) and Silvermills (3 miles north-west).
Around Craigmillar
Around Craigmillar, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Craigmillar Castle Park, Duddingston Kirk and Sheep Heid Inn. Nearby too are Portobello Library (1.8 miles north-east) and St Margaret's School (1.1 miles west). The closest station to Craigmillar is Brunstane station, about 1.7 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Morita Museum of Fine Art (1.3 miles west) and Craigmillar Castle (less than half a mile south). The countryside around Craigmillar includes Duddingston Loch and The New Leaf Co-op.
Why act early in Craigmillar
Draughts round window perimeters cost occupiers comfort, and they often blame the windows. Resealing the perimeters is often the simpler fix when the frames themselves are sound. Getting access arranged for a building in Craigmillar takes time, so it makes sense to renew every failing joint while it’s in place.
The price depends on how many linear metres there are, how much old material needs removing and how the joints are reached. Call for a fixed quote once you have the details.
What you get with us
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
- CHAS accredited
- Sealing commercial buildings since 2005
- Colour agreed before work starts
Take a look at what affects the cost or our accreditations.
Craigmillar: questions and answers
Does your area include sites such as Holyrood Business Park, near Craigmillar?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Craigmillar, Holyrood Business Park among them, are all within reach. A few photos and the unit address let us price the work.
Our building in Craigmillar is near the coast: does that change the sealant?
It can. Coastal exposure works external joints harder than inland weather. We check the specified product suits the exposure and pay close attention to preparation.
Does weather matter for sealant work?
For external joints, yes. The joint has to be dry and within the product’s temperature range, so damp, frosty or very cold days can stop external work. Internal work is rarely affected.
What about access for upper-floor joints?
It depends on the building. How upper joints are reached is agreed before work is booked so there are no surprises.
Do you guarantee the mastic work?
There is a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, backed by public liability insurance.
Can you quote from photographs?
That depends on the size and complexity of the job. Simple work can often be priced from photos, while larger or less clear jobs get a site visit first.
Do you work with property factors and landlords?
Yes. Managing agents, property factors in Scotland, housing associations and landlords with block or commercial portfolios are our main clients for this work and work can be quoted per building or as a whole.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Putting right a botched joint often costs more than sealing it well at the start, 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.
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but anything bigger is another matter: a specialist brings efficiency, a consistent finish and a 12-month guarantee.
Commercial clients in Craigmillar
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. Programme, specification and site rules come first.
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: resealing failed joints building by building, on a schedule that suits your budget. Craigmillar can form part of a wider programme.