Mastic sealing for building owners and managing agents in Crewe Toll, Edinburgh
We carry out mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Crewe Toll. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Brittle perimeter mastic across a building
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
- Water getting in round frames after rain
Mastic sealing in Crewe Toll
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Planned maintenance programmes are welcome: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Crewe Toll can form part of a wider programme across Edinburgh.
For main contractors, we work as the sealant subcontractor. We work to your programme, your specification and your site rules.
Mastic sealing for commercial buildings in Crewe Toll
Most buildings come with mastic joints nobody has looked at since handover and it slowly wears out: window perimeters, door frames, external joints and communal junctions all rely on it. When it hardens, splits or pulls away, water and draughts follow along with complaints. If you’re dealing with damp patches beside frames and a mix of products and colours from past repairs, we can put it right, on external wall and movement joints, window and door perimeters on blocks and communal entrances and stairwells alike. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Crewe Toll first comes to us: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
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.
What our 12-month guarantee covers is the way we did the job: the preparation, the sealing and the tooling. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Location
- Crewe Toll (EH4, EH5, EH3)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Keeping the joints sound
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Group repairs into a planned programme
- Check sealant joints during planned building inspections
- Look at the sunniest and most exposed elevations first
- Keep bins and bikes away from communal door frames
Where a paintable product was specified, it can be painted after curing. Non-paintable silicone shouldn’t be painted over.
One failed perimeter normally means others on the same building are close, so it pays to look at the whole elevation. Doing them together saves going back again and again.
For owners and agents in Crewe Toll
Crewe Toll is within about 1 mile of the coast. On buildings near the shore, the side facing the weather usually needs its mastic renewed first; plan inspections around that. Crewe Toll is on Scotland’s drier eastern side. Cold mornings still limit when outside mastic can go on. Block programmes are built with that in mind
Blocks of flats and mixed-use buildings often cluster around stations such as Haymarket station (1.7 miles south of Crewe Toll) and their window and balcony mastic tends to age at the same rate across a building. Student accommodation around universities such as University of Edinburgh - Lauriston Campus (2.1 miles south-east of Crewe Toll) is typically managed block by block, which suits a planned mastic programme.
Crewe Toll is about 2 miles north-west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Anywhere in EH4, it works the same way: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. Crewe Toll is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list for mastic joints.
Business premises anywhere in EH4, EH5 and EH3 are within our area. Among the streets we cover are Ferry Road, Grigor Avenue and Davidson Road. We also cover East Pilton (1 mile south-east), Pilton (1 mile north), Craigleith (1 mile south-east), Drylaw (1 mile south-west) and West Pilton (1 mile north-west). A short drive away, we cover Leith (3 miles east), Buccleuch (3 miles south-east), Dumbiedykes (3 miles south-east), Sciennes (3 miles south-east), Newington (3 miles south-east) and Queensferry (6 miles west).
Local landmarks in Crewe Toll
Recent enquiries here include premises near Starbank Park, Gabrielle Keiller Library and St Columba's Parish Church. The closest station to Crewe Toll is Haymarket station, roughly 1.7 miles south. Other landmarks nearby include Palestine Museum (1.7 miles south-east) and Craigcrook Castle (1.5 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Corstorphine Hill and The New Leaf Co-op.
When something else is needed
Honesty saves time and money. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Broken glass or failed sealed units
- Masonry that has broken away beside the joint
- Leaks from above rather than through a joint
Not sure which it is? You can call the office on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Where we work in Crewe Toll
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- External wall and movement joints
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
- Balcony and threshold joints
- Communal entrances and stairwells
Do you need mastic sealing in Crewe Toll?
We often find joints filled solid with no backing rod, so the mastic is glued to the joint bottom too. That three-sided adhesion stops it stretching and splits as the building moves.
Any of the following is a good reason to get the joints checked over:
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Communal area joints that look neglected
- Patchy repairs in mismatched sealant
- Water getting in round frames after rain
For owners of several units at places like Drylaw Shopping Centre, less than half a mile west of Crewe Toll, one programme can deal with frame and external mastic across the lot.
What your quote should include
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
What the job involves on each surface
Tenement and older buildings
Natural stone can be marked by the wrong sealant, so we pick a grade that won’t mark it.
Communal areas
Joints at low level in communal areas take knocks from bins, bikes and buggies and tend to fail first.
From enquiry to sign-off
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Joint faces are cleaned back to sound, dry surfaces, the manufacturer’s primer is applied where it’s called for, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Tell us the rules and we’ll work to them.
- We inspect the joints, building by building, and record what has failed and why.
- You get a fixed quote, priced per building where that helps your budgeting.
- The sequence and the dates are fixed with you, giving you what you need to notify occupiers.
- Failed mastic is removed and the faces taken back to sound, dry material.
- Deep joints get backing rod, faces are primed if the manufacturer specifies it, then the joint is sealed and tooled.
- Completed joints are inspected and carry a 12-month workmanship guarantee.
Before we start on site
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Tell us your opening times and when work is allowed
Ask for a quote
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? Send the scope and any drawings, and we will return a fixed quote that you can work with. If you have questions first, call 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Advice
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Questions we’re asked in Crewe Toll
Who do we deal with for shared-part sealing on a tenement in Crewe Toll?
In most tenements, the owners agree shared repairs, and many use a property factor to arrange them. Send details and photos, and we’ll quote to whoever is arranging it.
Will you work in a care home in Crewe Toll without moving residents out?
Yes. We work around residents’ routines, a room or two at a time. Any site rules, from signing in to infection control, are agreed before we start.
How long does a typical visit take?
The duration is planned around your programme and the access we are given. We will give you an estimate of time on site when we quote.
Is asbestos a concern with old mastic?
In older buildings, old mastic can contain asbestos. We ask for the asbestos register or survey before work starts, and if it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested.
Can you reseal a whole block or estate?
We can. We survey and price each building, then work through them in order starting wherever is most urgent.
Do you cover Crewe Toll?
Yes. Sites across Crewe Toll are covered.
Do you guarantee the mastic work?
A 12-month guarantee covers our work. It applies to our workmanship rather than damage or problems with the frames.