Lauriston mastic sealing
We carry out mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Lauriston. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Communal area joints that look neglected
- Occupiers reporting cold air round windows
- Repeated reactive repairs to the same buildings
Need mastic sealing in Lauriston?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Cost factors for mastic joints
These are the things that shape the price:
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- How much existing material needs removing
- Location, for remote and island sites
- The product specified
Access often affects the price as much as the sealing: easy-to-reach joints are quicker than those that need equipment to get to. Tell us how the joints are reached and call for a quote.
Sending details for a quote
Whether it’s one area or a whole building, the same details help:
- The asbestos register, for older buildings
- Photos of the joints, close up and from further back
- The postcode of the building
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
Pricing a project or setting a maintenance budget? We will quote against your scope and drawings you can plan around. If you have questions first, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Mastic sealing for commercial buildings in Lauriston
Treatment starts with a proper look: what has failed, what caused it and whether new sealant will actually solve it. Failed mastic is stripped, the faces taken back to sound material, primed where the manufacturer specifies and resealed, with backing rod setting the depth where it’s needed. If you are dealing with no planned programme for sealant and communal area joints that look neglected, we can put it right, whatever the surface. Facilities teams, main contractors and managing agents in Lauriston tend to want the same three things: a clear scope, tidy work and joints that don’t fail again.
Housing associations and councils in Scotland’s cities manage large estates of flats and maisonettes. A planned programme deals with failed mastic across an estate, block by block, with residents given notice through the landlord.
Every job we finish is backed by a 12-month workmanship guarantee, wherever the site is. If a joint we sealed fails because of how it was installed, we come back and put it right.
- Place
- Lauriston (EH3, EH1, EH8)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Also in Lauriston
Questions we’re asked in Lauriston
Is Russell Road Industrial Estate, near Lauriston, within your area?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Lauriston, Russell Road Industrial Estate among them, are all within reach. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Who arranges mastic work on a tenement in Lauriston?
Usually the owners agree it together, and a property factor often handles the arrangements. We can quote to the factor or to the owners, for a single close or a whole block.
How long does a typical visit take?
It depends on the scope, though a typical visit typically takes one or more days per building, depending on the joint lengths and the access. Larger or phased jobs take longer, and we’ll give you a timescale with the quote.
Do you do block-wide mastic programmes?
We can. We survey and price each building, then work through them in order starting wherever is most urgent.
Who decides which product is used?
A specification, where there is one, decides it. Without one, the joint decides: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
Will residents or tenants be disturbed?
Residents and tenants carry on as normal. We flag any areas that need internal access well before the dates so it can be arranged.
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 we watch the forecast and rearrange outside work if we have to. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
After the work
Every sealant joint needs some looking after, and their life depends on movement, exposure, cleaning and use. Our advice:
- Check the asbestos register before any old mastic is disturbed
- Plan resealing building by building rather than complaint by complaint
- Prioritise elevations facing the weather
- Mention RAMS, insurance or CSCS requirements up front
Our workmanship is covered for 12 months, so report any failure in that time. After that, regular inspection keeps the programme on track.
Failed mastic often goes unnoticed until heavy rain finds it. Acting at the first signs keeps it a straightforward reseal and saves internal repairs.
Mastic sealing around Lauriston: points for this area
Lauriston sits close to the coast, within about 2 miles. Blocks and commercial buildings facing the sea take the most weather on their window perimeters and external joints. Being in the east of Scotland, Lauriston gets less rain than the west coast. Frost and condensation on winter mornings can still delay outside mastic. We plan block programmes with some give for it
Churches, halls and community buildings such as Lauriston Church are looked after by trustees and committees like any other owner, and their frames, doors and external joints need mastic renewed in time. If you own or manage units on a site such as Russell Road Industrial Estate, 1.2 miles west of Lauriston, failed mastic on frames, door surrounds and external joints can be dealt with unit by unit. Schools and community buildings such as Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture need frame and external mastic kept sound like any building.
Lauriston is about 1 mile east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Commercial clients in Lauriston can call on us for mastic joints, as part of our coverage of Edinburgh. We work across 174 places in Edinburgh.
Business premises anywhere in EH3, EH1 and EH8 are within our area. We cover commercial and managed buildings on Lothian Road, Forrest Road and Lister Square and the roads nearby. Lauriston sits on or close to the A700, useful when we plan access and materials. Sites close to Lauriston are covered too, including Old Town (1 mile north-east), Marchmont (1 mile south), Buccleuch (1 mile east), Sciennes (1 mile south-east) and Holyrood (1 mile north-east). Further afield, our area takes in Leith (3 miles north-east), Queensferry (8 miles west), South Portobello (3 miles east), Southhouse (3 miles south-east), Gilmerton (4 miles south-east) and Muirhouse (3 miles north-west).
Around Lauriston
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Tollcross Primary School, St Cuthbert's Church and James Gillespie's High School and the streets around them. You will also find The Meadows (under half a mile south), The Beehive Inn (under half a mile north) and National Museums Scotland Library (less than half a mile north-east). The nearest railway station is Edinburgh Waverley station, about 0.5 miles north-east. Nearby you will also find Edinburgh Dental Institute (under half a mile south) and Waverley Mall (0.6 miles north). Not far away are The New Leaf Co-op and Salisbury Crags.
When it isn’t the sealant
Being straight saves everyone time. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Materials that need asbestos testing before work
- Frames that are rotten, warped or broken
- Cracked or crumbling render, brick or stone at the joint edges (we will tell you if so)
If you’re not sure, just give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email us and we’ll give you a straight answer.
What we seal
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- Balcony and threshold joints
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- External wall and movement joints
- Communal entrances and stairwells
On site: what to expect
We bring the products specified for the job, along with primers and backing rod. Any old material is cut back to clean, sound faces, primer goes on where the manufacturer specifies it, and each bead is tooled to a neat concave finish. Give us the access times and building rules for your premises in Lauriston, and we will plan the work to suit, phased where areas need to stay in use.
- 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.
- Dates, areas and access are agreed so residents or tenants can be told in advance.
- We remove the old mastic completely and clean the joint faces back.
- Deep joints get backing rod, faces are primed if the manufacturer specifies it, then the joint is sealed and tooled.
- Each building is checked on completion and the work carries our 12-month guarantee.
Preparing the site
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Share the asbestos register for older buildings
- Flag any permit to work we will need
Get a fixed quote
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. To take the first step, phone 01277 525 020 or send photos by email.
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Work for main contractors and building owners
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
Main contractors use us as their sealant subcontractor on new-build and refurbishment projects. Programme, specification and site rules come first, with CSCS-carded applicators on site.
What the job involves on each surface
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Where retail and residential share a building the programme has to suit everyone. We plan around the site hours and access windows you give us.
External movement joints
Movement joints are cleaned out, backed with rod and resealed with a sealant of the right movement class.