Mastic sealing for building owners and managing agents in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Kirkwall and the surrounding area. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Repeated reactive repairs to the same buildings
- Leaks at window and door perimeters
- Communal area joints that look neglected
Mastic sealing near Kirkwall
Share the site address and what’s failing, and we’ll reply with a fixed quote or arrange a visit.
What affects the price in Kirkwall
To price the job, we consider:
- How much existing material needs removing
- Which sealant the job calls for
- Any access equipment needed
- Location, for remote and island sites
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.
Sending details for a quote
However big the job, these details speed things up:
- Clear photographs of the problem areas
- The site address and postcode
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- What the building is and how it’s used
To get a fixed quote, call the office on 01277 525 020 or email the details over with the site address and an outline of the work. Our quote form is another easy route.
How we handle mastic sealing in Kirkwall
For blocks and buildings in Kirkwall and across the Orkney Islands, the process is the same: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. Addresses, photos of typical joints and a rough idea of quantities let us give a quick quote, and site visits can be arranged. Site teams most often ask us about complaints coming in block by block and damp patches beside frames, across communal entrances and stairwells, external wall and movement joints and balcony and threshold joints. Most enquiries from Kirkwall start with one failed joint and grow into a wider look at the building: we check the joints around it and give you an honest view of what needs doing now and what can wait.
Towns the size of Kirkwall typically have factored flats, housing association stock and commercial buildings with owners to coordinate. Perimeter joints against harl and render need a sealant that can bond to a textured face.
Our workmanship is guaranteed for 12 months. If our installation lets you down in that time, we return and fix it.
- Where
- Kirkwall (KW15)
- Wider area
- Orkney Islands
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Leave it or put it right?
Reacting to every complaint means sending someone out block by block. Planned resealing covers a whole building or estate in one go and is simpler to manage and budget. Water through a failed joint in a building in Kirkwall can spoil ceilings, floors and stock. Early action limits what needs repairing.
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: 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 us?
- Colours confirmed for the specified product
- CHAS accredited contractor
- Over 20 years of commercial sealing
- CSCS-carded applicators
Take a look at what affects the cost or how we’re accredited.
FAQs: Kirkwall
Do you work on the island where Kirkwall is?
Yes. We cover the whole of Scotland, and that includes island locations such as Kirkwall. Island work is planned around ferry crossings and the weather, so photographs and a full list before we travel are essential.
Our building in Kirkwall is near the coast: does that change the sealant?
It can. Coastal exposure works external joints harder than inland weather. We choose the product for the exposure, prime where the manufacturer requires it and size the joint for its movement.
Can you work to our specification?
Yes. We follow the specification, along with the manufacturer’s installation guidance, and we raise anything unclear before work begins.
How do you reach windows on upper floors?
We talk through access for each building when we quote. Tell us the building height and any access already in place, and we will tell you how we’d approach it.
Who decides which product is used?
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.
Will you just go over the old sealant?
No. Sealing over old material is one of the classic causes of early joint failure, so everything comes out first.
What’s the quickest route to a quote?
You can use the quote form on this site; alternatively, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us. Include photos or drawings if you have them.
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Looking after the joints
Once the work is signed off, a little attention goes a long way:
- Mention RAMS, insurance or CSCS requirements up front
- Group repairs into a planned programme
- Make it easy for occupiers to report draughts
- Track which buildings were done and when
Where a paintable product was specified, it can be painted after curing. Non-paintable silicone shouldn’t be painted over.
Mastic fails gradually, then all at once in a wet spell. Acting at the first signs keeps it a straightforward reseal and the complaints that come with it.
Do you need mastic sealing in Kirkwall?
Sunlight and weather break mastic down over time. It stiffens, stops stretching and cracks most of all on the sunniest and most exposed elevations.
Clients typically get in touch after noticing something like this:
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
- Occupiers reporting cold air round windows
- Worn sealant at communal door frames
- Repeated reactive repairs to the same buildings
If you’re responsible for a building such as Paterson Church, frame and door mastic needs the same attention as any other property.
Questions to ask before you book
- What the guarantee covers, and for how long
- How they’ll work around occupants
- Their pre-qualification and accreditations
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
On site: what to expect
We schedule the visit to fit the site hours and access windows you give us. While we’re working, the area stays contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. For a unit on an estate in Kirkwall, tell us about yard access and site rules. Town-centre premises may need parking planned.
- We inspect the joints, building by building, and record what has failed and why.
- You get a fixed quote, priced per building where that helps your budgeting.
- 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.
- Deep joints get backing rod, faces are primed if the manufacturer specifies it, then the joint is sealed and tooled.
- Completed joints are inspected and carry a 12-month workmanship guarantee.
Before we start on site
- Arrange parking or a loading space
- Tell staff and tenants when we’ll be in
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Request a quote
We quote a fixed sum against the scope you give us, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To start the process, call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form.
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Site staff or a sealant specialist?
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Certain joints really need a specialist: 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.
Block-wide mastic in Kirkwall
Kirkwall is within about 2 miles of the coast. For owners and agents with buildings near the sea, exposed elevations are where frame mastic fails first. Island jobs, Kirkwall among them, are planned around the ferry and the forecast. We group island buildings so each crossing covers as much as possible.
Schools and community buildings such as Kirkwall Grammar School need frame and external mastic kept sound like any building.
Kirkwall is in the Orkney Islands. Any commercial site in Kirkwall is covered, for single jobs and planned programmes alike. Our the Orkney Islands coverage takes in 51 places.
Business premises anywhere in KW15 are within our area. Among the streets we cover are Main Street, Sommerville Square and High Street, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Main routes into Kirkwall include the A960 and A961. Nearby places we also cover include Blackhill (1 mile west), Greenigoe (3 miles south-west), Balfour (4 miles north-east), Tankerness (4 miles east) and Toab (5 miles south-east). Kirkwall is one of the busier places in the Orkney Islands, and we take on mastic joints for its commercial and public buildings. 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.
What’s near Kirkwall
In Kirkwall, that means premises near Orkney Library and Archive and the streets around them. A little further out are Balfour Hospital (0.5 miles south-west) and Bishop's Palace (less than half a mile south-west). Open spaces near Kirkwall include Gallow Ha' and Loomi Shun.