Mastic sealing for building owners and managing agents in Juniper Green, Edinburgh
Planning work on a mastic joint in Juniper Green? We assess it, carry out the work and guarantee our workmanship for 12 months.
- Brittle perimeter mastic across a building
- Worn sealant at communal door frames
- A mix of products and colours from past repairs
Mastic sealing for Juniper Green sites
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Leave it or put it right?
Draughts round window perimeters cost occupiers comfort and the windows usually get the blame. Resealing the perimeters is often the simpler fix where the frames themselves are sound. Around smaller places like Juniper Green, halls, stores and seasonal buildings may not be checked often, giving water time to get in. Early resealing prevents it.
The product called for affects the cost, as does the preparation each joint needs, from cutting out to priming and backing rod. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
Why choose Mastic Doctor in Juniper Green
- Clear, fixed quotes
- Joints cleaned back to sound surfaces
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Constructionline member for supplier checks
Take a look at how commercial sealant jobs are priced and how we’re accredited.
Mastic sealing in Juniper Green
Older blocks and commercial buildings can have mastic that contains asbestos. Before we disturb it, we ask to see the asbestos register or survey and if it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials. If you have the same joint failures repeated across a portfolio and occupiers reporting cold air round windows, we can help, on external wall and movement joints, balcony and threshold joints and communal kitchens and washrooms alike. A single leaking joint is often how a building in Juniper Green 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.
In smaller Scottish places like Juniper Green, managed property is mostly small blocks, sheltered housing, hotels and community buildings. Frames on exposed elevations are where mastic typically fails first.
Every job is signed 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.
- Place
- Juniper Green (EH14, EH13)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
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Questions we are asked in Juniper Green
Will you work in a care home in Juniper Green without moving residents out?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Tell us about any infection-control or safeguarding requirements and we will work to them.
Will you take on a block within reach of Wester Hailes station?
Yes. Blocks of any size are within what we do. We work to your notice and access arrangements.
Does the weather affect the work?
It can, for external work. Sealant won’t bond properly to a wet or frosty joint, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Internal work is far less affected.
What paperwork can you provide?
We’re CHAS accredited, a Constructionline member and carry public liability insurance. Tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we’ll confirm with the quote.
How soon can the area be used again?
Curing time varies by product, and we confirm it on the day.
How long does a job like this take?
It depends on the scope, but the work typically takes a few days for most blocks, with larger programmes scheduled building by building. For bigger or phased jobs, we will set out a timescale with the quote.
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 the job changes by surface
Estate-wide resealing programmes
Housing associations and agents often manage many similar blocks. Each block is priced and scheduled in order.
Tenement and older buildings
Older mastic can contain asbestos, so we check the asbestos register or survey first. Suspect material is tested before work continues.
Looking after the joints
After handover, these steps help:
- Have the asbestos survey to hand for older buildings
- Start inspections with the most exposed faces
- Group repairs into a planned programme
- Ask residents or tenants to report leaks and draughts early
If a joint we sealed fails within 12 months, tell us and we’ll look at it. Beyond that, routine checks spot the next round of repairs.
Failed mastic often goes unnoticed until heavy rain finds it. Acting at the first signs keeps it a straightforward reseal and the complaints that come with it.
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. Where it goes wrong is preparation: sealing over old material, sealing onto damp or dusty surfaces, or a product that can’t take the movement.
Using site staff can make sense for a small touch-up, but larger jobs are different: a specialist works through quantities efficiently, leaves a consistent finish and backs it with a 12-month guarantee.
When something else is needed
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. On its own, sealant can’t deal with:
- Leaks from above rather than through a joint
- Masonry that has broken away beside the joint
- Glazing that needs replacing
If you’re not sure, just call 01277 525 020 or email the details over and we will give you a straight answer before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Communal entrances and stairwells
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- External wall and movement joints
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- Balcony and threshold joints
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
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 we check in with your contact before moving on to each new area. Tell us who will meet us and how to get in at your building near Juniper Green. We’ll confirm the plan with the fixed quote.
- A building-by-building inspection lists the failed joints.
- The quote is fixed and split as suits you.
- We agree the programme and dates with you.
- Old mastic is removed and the joint faces prepared.
- Joints are resealed and tooled.
- Each building is checked and signed off with the 12-month guarantee.
What we need from you
- Tell staff and tenants when we will be in
- Confirm the product named in the specification
- Send your site hours and access windows
Ask for a quote
Send us photos, drawings or a joint schedule are often enough for a fixed quote. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a site visit.
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Block-wide mastic in Juniper Green
There are three care or nursing homes within about 2 miles of Juniper Green. Frame mastic on care buildings is best renewed elevation by elevation, with the manager deciding timings. Juniper Green is in the east of Scotland, which is drier than the west. Frost and condensation on winter mornings can still delay outside mastic. We plan block programmes with some give for it
Student accommodation around universities such as Edinburgh Napier University - Sighthill Campus, 1.5 miles north of Juniper Green, is typically managed block by block, which suits a planned mastic programme. Blocks of flats and mixed-use buildings often cluster around stations such as Wester Hailes station (0.8 miles north of Juniper Green) and their window and balcony mastic tends to age at the same rate across a building. For owners of several units at places like Westside Plaza Shopping Centre, 0.8 miles to the north of Juniper Green, one programme can deal with frame and external mastic across the lot.
Juniper Green is about 4 miles south-west of Merchiston, in Edinburgh. Anywhere in EH14, it works the same way: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. Juniper Green is one of 174 places we cover in Edinburgh for mastic joints.
Anyone looking for mastic sealing in EH14 and EH13 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. Streets here include Belmont Road, Juniper Lane and Juniper Avenue, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Nearby places we also cover include Baberton (1 mile north), Clovenstone (1 mile north-east), Wester Hailes (1 mile north), The Calders (1 mile north) and Sighthill (1 mile north). A short drive away, we cover Edinburgh (4 miles north-east), Leith (7 miles north-east), Bonnington (6 miles north-east), Greenside (5 miles north-east), Broughton (5 miles north-east) and Bellevue (5 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Juniper Green
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Merchiston Castle School and Juniper Green Parish Church, among other places. The nearest railway station is Wester Hailes station, about 0.8 miles north of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find The Gyle Shopping Centre (2.7 miles north-west) and Heriot Watt University Museum (1.4 miles west). Green spaces nearby include The New Leaf Co-op and Warklaw Hill.