Mastic sealant contractors in Keiss
Mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Keiss. CHAS accredited, Constructionline member, with a 12-month guarantee on workmanship.
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Repeated reactive repairs to the same buildings
- A mix of products and colours from past repairs
Mastic sealing for businesses in Keiss
Tell us what needs sealing and where, with photos or drawings if you have them, and we’ll price it.
Why deal with it now?
Draughts round window perimeters cost occupiers comfort, and they often blame the windows. In many cases, new perimeter sealant deals with it where the frames themselves are sound. In Scotland, wind-driven rain finds a failed joint quickly, and for a smaller place like Keiss, a repair visit takes planning, so it’s better to act early.
Access can matter as much as the joints themselves: joints within easy reach take less time than ones that need access equipment. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.
Why appoint us
- CHAS accredited
- Colours confirmed for the specified product
- Constructionline member
- Fully insured
About our mastic sealing in Keiss
Older blocks and commercial buildings can have mastic that contains asbestos. We check the asbestos register or survey before any old sealant is cut out and if it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested. We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials. If you’re dealing with the same joint failures repeated across a portfolio and worn sealant at communal door frames, we can put it right, whatever the surface. For commercial sealant work in Keiss, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, whether it’s one building or several.
In smaller Scottish places like Keiss, managed property is mostly small blocks, sheltered housing, hotels and community buildings. Frames on exposed elevations are where mastic typically fails first.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months, wherever the site is. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Where
- Keiss (KW1)
- Region
- Highland
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
FAQs: Keiss
Is a smaller place like Keiss outside your area?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. Our area covers all of Scotland, cities, towns and islands alike. Good photos up front let us bring everything on the first visit.
Will you price a mastic programme across our Keiss portfolio?
Yes. Planned programmes across a building, block or estate are a core part of this service. Residents are given notice through you, and the work moves building by building.
How do you handle work on occupied blocks?
Residents and tenants carry on as normal. If any flats or units need access, we’ll tell you in advance so you can arrange it with occupiers.
What about access for upper-floor joints?
It depends on the building. We agree access with you at quote stage so there are no surprises.
Can you follow the specification on our project?
Yes. Send it with your enquiry, and we will price the work to it.
Can weather delay the job?
It can, for external work. Wet joints and cold, damp or frosty conditions stop the sealant bonding properly, so we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
Who decides which product is used?
If the job is specified, we follow the specification. If not, we choose for the movement, the surfaces and the conditions, in line with the manufacturer’s guidance.
What the job involves on each surface
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Where retail and residential share a building, so phasing has to suit both. We plan around the site hours and access windows you give us.
Tenement and older buildings
Older buildings, including Scotland’s sandstone tenements, have their own joint details. The material either side of the joint shapes the product choice.
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then the work is carried out to the specified product and detail, and we finish with a walk round so the work can be signed off. For a building near Keiss, directions, keys and a contact on the day are worth sorting early. We will confirm the plan with the fixed quote.
- We inspect each building and record the joints that have failed.
- You get a fixed quote, per block or for the whole programme.
- Dates and areas are agreed so occupiers can be told.
- Old mastic is removed and the joint faces prepared.
- Joints are resealed and tooled.
- We check the finished work and confirm the guarantee.
What we need from you
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Send any specification or drawings in advance
Get a fixed quote
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price against exactly what is specified. For smaller jobs, photos and a description will do.
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How the quote is worked out
These are the things that shape the price:
- Which sealant the job calls for
- Distance, for remote addresses
- The size and state of each joint
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
What a job costs comes down to the quantity of joints, what has to come out first and the access. Call for a quote when you are ready.
What we need to price the job
To price the job accurately, we need a clear picture of the site. Send us:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- The product your specification calls for
- Rough lengths or quantities, or drawings if you have them
- Your programme or deadline
The quickest route to a quote is a few photos and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or ring 01277 525 020 or send photos by email if you’d rather talk the job through.
Frames, entrances and external joints in Keiss
The sea is no more than about 1 mile from Keiss. Sea-facing elevations take driven rain and salt, and their mastic shows it before the sheltered sides do, and they deserve more regular inspection. Keiss is in the east of Scotland, which is drier than the west. Cold mornings still limit when outside mastic can go on. Block programmes are built with that in mind
Owners near Keiss can renew frame and external mastic block by block on one programme. Churches, halls and community buildings such as Church of Scotland are looked after by trustees and committees like any other owner, and their frames, doors and external joints need mastic renewed in time.
Keiss is about 15 miles east of Thurso, in Highland. If you’re looking for mastic sealing in Keiss, we can help, as we do across Highland. Keiss is one of 256 places we cover in Highland.
Anyone looking for mastic sealing in KW1 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. We cover commercial and managed buildings on High Street, South Street and Robertson Crescent and the roads nearby. We also cover Reiss (4 miles south), Ackergillshore (4 miles south), Hastigrow (5 miles west), Staxigoe (6 miles south-east) and Haster (6 miles south). Island and remote sites need extra planning, with travel, ferry crossings where needed and weather to allow for, so give the site location in your enquiry.
Near you in Keiss
Other landmarks nearby include Caithness Broch Centre (2 miles north-east) and Keiss Castle (0.7 miles north-east). The countryside around Keiss includes Loch of Wester.
What we can’t put right
We seal joints; we don’t mend everything behind them. On its own, sealant can’t deal with:
- Masonry that has broken away beside the joint
- Failed window or door frames, which need a window contractor
- Old mastic suspected of containing asbestos, which must be tested and dealt with by a specialist first
Not sure which it is? You can give us a call on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
What we seal
- Balcony and threshold joints
- Communal entrances and stairwells
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- External wall and movement joints
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
Other services in Keiss
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are easy to get wrong without experience.
For most general trades, sealant is a sideline. A specialist prepares properly, controls joint depth and picks a product with the right movement class.