Drumbrae mastic sealing
Work needed on a mastic joint in Drumbrae? We look at it, seal it with the right product and hand it over with a 12-month guarantee.
- Damp patches beside frames
- The same joint failures repeated across a portfolio
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
Mastic sealing for Drumbrae sites
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
For managing agents and facilities managers
Housing associations and managing agents often need work done across blocks and communal areas. Work can be phased so residents and staff keep access throughout, and each stage is agreed with your contact.
Hotels, schools, healthcare sites, offices and retail units come to us directly as well. The work is planned around how the building runs, so guests, pupils, patients or staff are disturbed as little as possible.
About our mastic sealing in Drumbrae
Managing agents and housing associations typically need paperwork before anyone starts. Tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we will confirm with the quote. We are CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, with public liability insurance. If you have brittle perimeter mastic across a building and failed external movement joints, we can put it right, on external wall and movement joints, balcony and threshold joints and communal kitchens and washrooms alike. For commercial sealant work in Drumbrae, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
Housing associations and councils in Scotland’s cities manage large estates of flats and maisonettes. Planned mastic programmes can renew frame and external joints block by block, with residents given notice through the landlord.
Every job is signed off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Where
- Drumbrae (EH4, EH12)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quotes
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Questions about Drumbrae
Who arranges mastic work on a tenement in Drumbrae?
In most tenements, the owners agree shared repairs, and many use a property factor to arrange them. We are happy to deal with the factor directly.
Is Corstorphine Retail Park, near Drumbrae, within your area?
Yes. Our area takes in Drumbrae and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Corstorphine Retail Park included. A few photos and the unit address let us price the work.
How long do sealant joints last?
There’s no fixed lifespan: movement, exposure, cleaning, traffic and the product all play a part. Sealant joints are maintenance items, so inspect them regularly.
How much does the work cost?
That depends on the job: the volume of work, the access, the specified product and how it’s phased. Call for a quote and we’ll price it properly.
Which sealant will you use?
If the job is specified, we follow the specification. Otherwise, we recommend a product to suit the joint’s movement, the substrate and the conditions, following the manufacturer’s guidance.
How long does a job like this take?
It depends on the scope, but the work normally takes a day or two for a single block, longer for an estate programme. For bigger or phased jobs, we’ll set out a timescale with the quote.
Can you reseal a whole block or estate?
Block-wide and estate programmes are common. You get a fixed quote per building or for the whole job.
Places near Drumbrae
Other services in Drumbrae
Diagnose, treat, sign off
We schedule the visit to fit the site hours and access windows you give us. On the day, the work area is kept contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. City jobs in Drumbrae typically need parking and loading planned. Shared closes, stairs and the property factor may need to be part of the plan.
- First comes a look at the joints and, for older buildings, the asbestos records.
- The products and programme are set out in a fixed quote.
- Failed mastic is removed completely.
- Joint faces are cleaned, backed and resealed.
- We finish each building before moving to the next.
Before we start on site
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Agree which areas must stay open
Get a fixed quote
Every job follows the same four steps: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. The first step is to phone 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos with what you know.
Advice
Do you need mastic sealing in Drumbrae?
Topping up old mastic is a common shortcut. New silicone has nothing to grip on old silicone and the repair soon fails.
If one of these sounds familiar, it’s time for a closer look:
- Window mastic that has split and shrunk
- Worn sealant at communal door frames
- Draughts at frames across a block
- Old repairs sealed over failed mastic
Historic properties like Caroline Park (to the north-east of Drumbrae) show the age of some local stock, where frame mastic must suit soft brick or stone.
Before you book anyone
- What site paperwork they can supply
- Their public liability cover
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- Whether their applicators hold CSCS cards
Why it’s worth doing now in Drumbrae
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 Drumbrae takes time, so it makes sense to renew every failing joint while it’s in place.
The specified product makes a difference, as does the preparation each joint needs, from cutting out to priming and backing rod. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
What you get with us
- A range of standard colours, depending on the product
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- 12 months’ guarantee on every job
- CSCS-carded applicators
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced or our accreditations.
Planned mastic for Drumbrae portfolios
With the shore within about 2 miles, Drumbrae counts as a coastal location. On buildings near the shore, the side facing the weather usually needs its mastic renewed first. There are four care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Drumbrae. Owners of care premises can bring window and door mastic into a phased programme planned around the home.
Landlords with units on estates such as Corstorphine Retail Park, 0.9 miles to the south of Drumbrae, can bring frame, door and external mastic across several units into one programme. For agents with blocks near South Gyle station, 1.3 miles to the south of Drumbrae, a block-wide mastic programme deals with frames, balconies and entrances in one go.
Drumbrae is about 3 miles west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. If you are looking for mastic sealing in Drumbrae, we can help, as we do across Edinburgh. 174 places across Edinburgh fall within our area, Drumbrae among them.
Work on mastic joints is covered throughout EH4 and EH12. Streets here include Oak Lane, Rannoch Road and Hillview Road. Close to Drumbrae, our area also takes in Clermiston (1 mile north-east), Parkgrove (1 mile north), Corstorphine (1 mile south), Craigcrook (1 mile east) and Davidson's Mains (1 mile north-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Edinburgh (3 miles east), Leith (5 miles east), Bonnington (4 miles east), Greenside (4 miles east), Broughton (4 miles east) and Bellevue (4 miles east).
Local landmarks in Drumbrae
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Torfin pub. The nearest railway station is South Gyle station, roughly 1.3 miles south. A little further out are Corstorphine Hospital (1.1 miles south-east) and War Poets Collection (2.1 miles south). The countryside around Drumbrae includes The New Leaf Co-op and Dundas Loch.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
For most general trades, sealant is a sideline. A specialist brings correct preparation, depth control with backing rod and a product suited to that particular joint.
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.
Different surfaces, different methods
Tenement and older buildings
Older mastic can contain asbestos and the register is checked before anything is disturbed. If it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested.
Communal areas
We keep entrances and stairs open throughout. Work is planned in sections.