Mastic sealing for building owners and managing agents in Dover, Kent
Work needed on a mastic joint in Dover? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Movement joints with sealant missing
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Old repairs sealed over failed mastic
Need mastic sealing in Dover?
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
About our mastic sealing in Dover
On a residential block, the work happens around people’s lives. Dates, areas and the order of work are agreed with you in advance so you can let residents know what is happening. Communal entrances and stairs stay usable while we work. The enquiries we see most involve no planned programme for sealant and water getting in round frames after rain, across communal entrances and stairwells, balcony and threshold joints and window and door perimeters on blocks. Most enquiries from Dover start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we look at the rest while we’re there and tell you what we find.
For housing associations with stock in a town such as Dover, mastic is easiest to handle as a planned programme. Work can move block by block, with you handling resident notices.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. It’s a plain promise: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
Dover: questions and answers
Does your area include sites such as White Cliffs Business Park, near Dover?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Dover, White Cliffs Business Park among them, are all within reach. Send details of the unit and the work through our quote form for a quick quote.
Can you quote for a block close to Dover Priory station?
Yes. Managing agents, landlords, property factors and housing associations are who this service is for. Photos of each elevation help us quote accurately.
Can weather delay the job?
For external joints, yes. The joint has to be dry and within the product’s temperature range, so frost, rain or cold mornings can delay outside work. Internal work is rarely affected.
Do you work with property factors and landlords?
We do. Most of our mastic sealing is for agents, factors, housing associations and portfolio landlords, and we quote building by building or as a programme.
Who decides which product is used?
The specification comes first, if there is one. If there isn’t one, it comes down to the joint: how much it moves, what it bonds to and whether it’s wet, trafficked or fire-rated.
When can the area be used after sealing?
We will confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and sign any area that should be left alone.
Can people stay in the building while you reseal?
We plan around people living or working in the building. Dates and areas are agreed with you so residents or tenants can be told, and entrances stay in use.
Signs you need mastic sealing in Dover
Frames, panels and masonry expand and contract through the year, and the sealant takes up that movement. A joint that was too narrow, too thin or the wrong product can’t cope and fails early.
It’s worth sending us details if you spot any of the following:
- Repeated reactive repairs to the same buildings
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
- Worn sealant at communal door frames
- Cracked, hardened mastic round windows on a block
Older community buildings, Parish Church of St Andrew Buckland among them, often have frames of mixed ages whose mastic varies.
What your quote should include
- Can the work be phased to keep areas open?
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
Towns and villages near Dover
Other services in Dover
How the job changes by surface
Tenement and older buildings
Natural stone can be marked by the wrong sealant and we choose accordingly.
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Where retail and residential share a building the programme has to suit everyone. We plan around the site hours and access windows you give us.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
For a quick touch-up, site staff may be fine, but anything bigger is another matter: a specialist brings efficiency, a consistent finish and a 12-month guarantee.
Certain joints really need a specialist: for instance 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.
Why deal with it now?
Piecemeal repairs over the years often leave mismatched sealant. A block-wide reseal gives one product, one colour and one guarantee. In a town like Dover, a split, stained or mouldy joint is often the first thing visitors notice. Renewing it keeps the building looking cared for.
A quote for mastic joints depends on quantities, condition and access. Call for a quote.
Why choose Mastic Doctor in Dover
- Old sealant cut out, never sealed over
- Work to your specification and the manufacturer’s guidance
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Fixed quotes based on photographs, drawings or a visit
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced and our accreditations and insurance.
What sets the cost
Quotes vary with the job. It mainly depends on:
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Any access equipment needed
The product called for affects the cost, as does the preparation each joint needs, such as cutting out, priming or new backing rod. Access, phasing and site requirements come into it too.
Details that help us quote
A good diagnosis starts with the right details. Tell us:
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
- The type of building and who uses it
- The postcode of the building
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and a fixed quote will follow. To get it moving, ring 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Blocks and managed buildings in Dover
Dover is within about 2 miles of the coast. Blocks and commercial buildings facing the sea take the most weather on their window perimeters and external joints; plan inspections around that. Rainfall across the South East, Dover included, is lower than in many parts of the UK. Outside mastic still needs a dry joint and the right temperature, and south- and west-facing elevations, which take the most sun and rain, often age first.
Buildings close to stations like Dover Priory station (to the south of Dover) are often flats over shops, with frame mastic to keep sound. Landlords with units on estates such as White Cliffs Business Park (to the north of Dover) can bring frame, door and external mastic across several units into one programme.
Dover is in Kent. Our applicators travel to Dover for work on mastic joints. We work across 931 places in Kent. We also cover London, around 65 miles from Dover.
Business premises anywhere in CT17, CT16, CT15 and CT14 are within our area. We cover commercial and managed buildings on London Road, High Street and Church Road and the roads nearby. With the A2 and A20 nearby, Dover is straightforward for us to reach. Close to Dover, our area also takes in River (1 mile north-west), Maxton (1 mile south), Kearsney (1 mile north-west), Whitfield (1 mile north) and Temple Ewell (2 miles north-west). A short drive away, we cover Canterbury (14 miles north-west), Folkestone (7 miles south-west), Ramsgate (15 miles north), Deal (7 miles north-east), Hythe (11 miles south-west) and Walmer (6 miles north-east). Dover is one of the busier places in Kent, and its commercial and public buildings are all within our area.
Near you in Dover
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Connaught Park, The Bull pub and St Edmund's Catholic School, among other places. The nearest railway station is Dover Priory station, about 0.9 miles south of the centre. Nearby you will also find Dover Castle (1.3 miles south-east) and Crabble Corn Mill (0.7 miles west). Open spaces near Dover include Dover Western Heights.
Our process
In a busy building, we agree a sequence with your contact so the disruption stays in one area at once. Each area is protected, prepared and sealed before the next one starts. For a town like Dover, we try to group jobs for the same client into one visit, with one quote covering them. Give us your access times and we will fit the work in.
- First we look at the mastic on each building and note what needs replacing.
- A fixed quote follows, split by block or building if that suits you.
- Dates, areas and access are agreed so residents or tenants can be told in advance.
- Failed mastic is removed and the faces taken back to sound, dry material.
- Backing rod and primer go in where the joint and the product need them, then new sealant is applied and tooled.
- Finished joints are looked over and the 12-month guarantee confirmed.
Preparing the site
- Send your site hours and access windows
- Clear stock, furniture or equipment away from the joints
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
Request a quote
Every job follows the same four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. The first step is to speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos with what you know.