Mastic sealing for building owners and managing agents in Drylaw, Edinburgh
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Drylaw. Send photos or drawings for a fixed quote.
- Old repairs sealed over failed mastic
- The same joint failures repeated across a portfolio
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
Need mastic sealing in Drylaw?
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Your questions answered
Will you take on a block within reach of Haymarket station?
Yes. Managing agents, landlords, property factors and housing associations are who this service is for. Send the address, photographs of the elevations and your access arrangements, and we’ll give a fixed quote.
Who arranges mastic work on a tenement in Drylaw?
In most tenements, the owners agree shared repairs, and many use a property factor to arrange them. One quote can cover a close or the whole block.
Can people stay in the building while you reseal?
The work is planned around occupiers. We agree the programme so you can notify occupiers and communal access is kept open.
Can you plan resealing across several buildings?
We can. Each building is inspected, quoted and scheduled in turn starting wherever is most urgent.
How do you reach windows on upper floors?
Every block is different. We agree access with you at quote stage so there are no surprises.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, when the joints are outside. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so external work may be moved if conditions aren’t right. Internal work is far less affected.
When is resealing likely to be due?
There isn’t a single answer, since movement, weather, cleaning and use all affect it. Regular inspection is the best way to catch problems early.
Mastic sealing in Drylaw
Different joints need different sealants. Window perimeters and external joints often take a low-modulus neutral-cure silicone, while hybrid polymer sealants grip many materials and are often paintable. We will confirm the colours available for the specified product. Most enquiries involve leaks at window and door perimeters and worn sealant at communal door frames, across external wall and movement joints, shopfronts below residential blocks and balcony and threshold joints. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Drylaw 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.
Tenements are a large part of the housing in Scotland’s cities, and shared repairs often go through a property factor. Shared-part mastic work is usually agreed by the owners, often through the factor, and can cover a whole close or block.
The 12-month guarantee covers our workmanship: preparation, application and finish. It doesn’t extend to damage, other trades’ later work or movement the joint was never designed to take.
- Location
- Drylaw (EH4, EH5)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Price
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Leave it or put it right?
Replacing mastic before water gets in is a planned job. After water has got in, there may be damp, damaged plaster or decoration to put right too, and the complaints come with it. In Drylaw, as across Scotland, rain finds any gap, and failed external joints let it into stone walls and around frames. Renewing them early protects the fabric.
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: joints within easy reach take less time than ones that need access equipment. Mention the access as part of your enquiry.
Why clients in Drylaw choose us
- Fully insured, including public liability cover
- CHAS accredited
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- One phone line for London, the South East and Scotland
See our cost guide and how we’re accredited.
For managing agents and facilities managers
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Drylaw can sit alongside others in a wider programme across Edinburgh.
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor, on new build and refurbishment alike. Programme, specification and site rules come first.
After the work
To get the most from the new sealant:
- Check sealant joints during planned building inspections
- Ask residents or tenants to report leaks and draughts early
- Have the asbestos survey to hand for older buildings
- Keep bins and bikes away from communal door frames
Log the date and extent of the resealing for each block. That makes future programmes easier to plan and shows what was done.
Leaks at window perimeters spoil finishes and can affect frames. Resealing early keeps the job small.
How the job changes by surface
Window and door perimeters on blocks
Frames vary from uPVC to aluminium and timber, so the grade we pick has to bond to frame and wall alike. Colours are confirmed for the product used.
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Commercial occupiers normally stay open during the work so the work is phased.
On site: what to expect
Inspect, seal, sign off: that’s the shape of every visit. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then we prepare and seal each joint with the specified product, and we finish with a walk round so the work can be signed off. Work on a big city site in Scotland normally involves inductions and permits. Tell us the rules and we’ll work to them.
- Each block or building is walked and the failed joints recorded with the likely cause.
- 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.
- Old sealant is stripped and each face prepared back to firm material.
- Backing rod and primer go in where the joint and the product need them, then new sealant is applied and tooled.
- Each building is checked on completion and the work carries our 12-month guarantee.
Preparing the site
- Let us know about inductions and permits
- Move anything stored against the joints
- Agree which areas must stay open
Getting a fixed quote
Tell us about the building, the joints and when you need the work done, and we’ll put a fixed quote together. The easiest way is to phone 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
Related advice
What affects the price in Drylaw
Your fixed quote is built from the real scope. It allows for:
- Removal of failed or old sealant
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- Location, for remote and island sites
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: scope, access, product and programme. Call for a quote, and you will have a fixed figure to work with.
Before you send an enquiry
For an accurate fixed quote, we need a clear picture of the site. Send us:
- Clear photographs of the problem areas
- When you need the work done
- Whether the building will be occupied during the work
- Asbestos survey details if the building is older
To get a fixed quote, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos, telling us the site location and the nature of the job. Our quote form is another easy route.
For owners and agents in Drylaw
Drylaw is within about 1 mile of the coast. On buildings near the shore, the side facing the weather typically needs its mastic renewed first; plan inspections around that. Drylaw has five care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. For owners and operators of care buildings, window perimeters and external joints are best renewed in planned phases around residents.
Buildings close to stations like Haymarket station, 1.7 miles to the south-east of Drylaw, are often flats over shops, with frame mastic to keep sound. Churches, halls and community buildings such as St Columba's Parish Church are looked after by trustees and committees like any other owner, and their frames, doors and external joints need mastic renewed in time. Schools and community buildings such as Craigroyston Community High School need frame and external mastic kept sound like any building.
Drylaw is about 2 miles west of Stockbridge, in Edinburgh. Across the EH4 postcode area, it works the same way: details in, fixed quote out, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Drylaw is one of 174 places in Edinburgh on our list for mastic joints.
We take on mastic joints across the EH4 and EH5 postcode area, for business premises of every kind. Among the streets we cover are Mottram Road, Telford Road and Drylaw Avenue, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. With the A902 nearby, Drylaw is straightforward for us to reach. Close to Drylaw, our area also takes in Blackhall (1 mile south-west), Muirhouse (1 mile north), Crewe Toll (1 mile north-east), East Pilton (1 mile east) and West Pilton (1 mile north). A short drive away, we cover Leith (3 miles east), Bonnington (3 miles east), Greenside (3 miles east), Buccleuch (3 miles south-east), Pilrig (3 miles east) and North Leith (3 miles east).
Around Drylaw
Around Drylaw, our work takes us to commercial buildings near Stewart's Melville College and Gabrielle Keiller Library. The closest station to Drylaw is Haymarket station, about 1.7 miles south-east of the centre. Nearby you will also find Western General Hospital (0.6 miles east) and Murrayfield Experience (1.6 miles south). The countryside around Drylaw includes Corstorphine Hill and Dunsapie Loch.