Mastic sealant contractors in Five Wents
Mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Five Wents. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Complaints coming in block by block
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Failed external movement joints
Mastic sealing for businesses in Five Wents
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
What affects the price in Five Wents
Each job is priced on its own details. The things that drive the figure:
- Distance, for remote addresses
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
- The size and state of each joint
- How much existing material needs removing
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 you’ll have a fixed figure to work with.
Sending details for a quote
We can often quote from photographs and a few details. Please tell us:
- The postcode of the building
- What the building is and how it’s used
- Specification clauses that apply
- Any dates the work must fit around
Every quote starts with the facts: the joints involved, quantities, access and the product called for. Send what you have, and we’ll arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.
Mastic sealing in Five Wents, done properly
Owners and agents normally inherit a building’s mastic rather than choose it 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. We work on shopfronts below residential blocks, external wall and movement joints and communal kitchens and washrooms, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are repeated reactive repairs to the same buildings and worn sealant at communal door frames. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: in Five Wents, that means joint design, primers and backing rod as standard.
For buildings around smaller places like Five Wents, we group work so one trip covers it. Send photos of the frames and joints and we’ll give a fixed quote.
Whoever the client is, the cover is the same: twelve months on the work we carried out. Faults in the structure, damage and other trades’ work fall outside it, and we say so plainly.
- Place
- Five Wents (ME17)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Guarantee
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Keeping the joints sound
A few simple habits keep the new joints working:
- Log resealing dates block by block
- Keep bins and bikes away from communal door frames
- Mention RAMS, insurance or CSCS requirements up front
- Include mastic in your cyclical inspections
Where a paintable product was specified, it can be painted after curing. Non-paintable silicone shouldn’t be painted over unless told otherwise.
The longer failed joints are left, the more likely the substrate edges break up. Then the edges may need repairing first and the job grows.
Common questions from Five Wents clients
Is Five Wents too small for you to travel to?
Not at all. Five Wents is within our area. We work across Greater London and the South East. Where we can, we group nearby jobs to make the most of each trip.
Is Park Wood Trading Estate, near Five Wents, within your area?
Yes. Our area takes in Five Wents and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Park Wood Trading Estate included. Send details of the unit and the work through our quote form for a quick quote.
How long will the new sealant last?
There isn’t a single answer, because life depends on how much the joint moves, how exposed it is and how it’s cleaned and used. Regular inspection is the best way to catch problems early.
How soon can the area be used again?
We will confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and flag anything to keep off until it has cured.
Does the weather affect the work?
Outside, 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. Inside work is seldom held up.
Is mastic sealing guaranteed?
There is a 12-month guarantee on our workmanship, backed by public liability insurance.
How do you handle work on occupied blocks?
We plan around people living or working in the building. We agree the programme so you can notify occupiers and communal access is kept open.
When to call us in Five Wents
We often find joints filled solid with no backing rod so the mastic is bonded on three sides. It can’t stretch properly and it tears.
Any of the following is a good reason to get the joints checked over:
- Complaints coming in block by block
- Draughts at frames across a block
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
- Water getting in round frames after rain
Owners of student blocks near Canterbury Christ Church University (to the north-east of Five Wents) can schedule frame and external mastic for the summer vacation.
What to look for in a quote
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
- How joint depth will be controlled
- What site paperwork they can supply
- Their plan for phasing and protecting the area
For owners and agents in Five Wents
Five Wents is about 35 miles from central London. Within reach of London, blocks run by agents and associations are common around stations; their frame mastic often ages block-wide. Five Wents sits in one of the drier corners of the country, the South East. Outside mastic still needs a dry joint and the right temperature, while the elevations that take the most sun tend to show hardened mastic first.
If you look after a block within reach of Hollingbourne station, 3 miles to the north-east of Five Wents, frame and balcony mastic can be renewed on one programme. For a school such as Sutton Valence Primary School, perimeter mastic on windows and doors is a holiday job.
Five Wents is about 4 miles south-east of Maidstone, in Kent. Across the ME17 postcode area, it works the same way: details in, fixed quote out, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Across Kent, 931 places are covered, including Five Wents. Sites around London have their own page, roughly 35 miles from Five Wents.
Commercial sites across ME17 are covered for mastic joints. For a building on Leeds Road and Sutton Road or nearby, send details and we’ll quote for mastic joints. Close to Five Wents, our area also takes in Warmlake (1 mile south), Langley Heath (1 mile north-east), Langley (1 mile north-west), Chart Sutton (1 mile west) and Sutton Valence (1 mile south). Bigger towns within reach include Maidstone (4 miles north-west), Ashford (13 miles south-east), Sittingbourne (10 miles north-east), Royal Tunbridge Wells (15 miles south-west), Tonbridge (14 miles west) and Faversham (14 miles north-east).
Near you in Five Wents
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to The Plough Inn. Five Wents’s nearest station is Hollingbourne station, roughly 3 miles north-east. Well-known places in the area include KIMS hospital (4.2 miles north) and Sutton Valence Castle (1.2 miles south). For a walk, there’s Detling Hill.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Site rules come first: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. With the paperwork done, the joints are worked through in the order agreed with your site contact, and each area is checked before we leave it. Smaller jobs around Five Wents can be grouped with others nearby, which keeps travel down. You’ll have a fixed quote before work starts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Completed joints are inspected and carry a 12-month workmanship guarantee.
What we need from you
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
Request a quote
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
Related advice
Different surfaces, different methods
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Tenants in commercial buildings need to keep trading so the work is phased.
External movement joints
Joint size and product are matched to the expected movement with the width-to-depth ratio set as the manufacturer advises.
Places near Five Wents
What else we do in Five Wents
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Some joints are best left to specialists: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. A poor seal in places like these tends to cost more to put right later.
The visible bead is only part of the job. Backing rod, primer where specified and a joint designed to move with the building are where general trades tend to cut corners.