Mastic sealant contractors in Lochgilphead
Mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Lochgilphead. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Open joints in brickwork or panels
- Complaints coming in block by block
Mastic sealing for Lochgilphead sites
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Keeping the joints sound
To get the most from the new sealant:
- Encourage occupiers to report problems at frames
- Look at the sunniest and most exposed elevations first
- Keep bins and bikes away from communal door frames
- Group repairs into a planned programme
If paintable sealant was used, decoration can follow once it has cured. Non-paintable silicone shouldn’t be painted over.
Failed mastic often goes unnoticed until heavy rain finds it. Resealing when cracking first shows avoids water damage and saves internal repairs.
Mastic sealing in Lochgilphead
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 and backing rod used wherever a joint is deep. If you have cracked, hardened mastic round windows on a block and no planned programme for sealant, we can help, on external wall and movement joints, shopfronts below residential blocks and balcony and threshold joints alike. Whoever orders the work in Lochgilphead, the brief is usually the same: a fixed quote, no surprises on site and a 12-month guarantee behind the result.
In smaller Scottish places like Lochgilphead, managed property is mostly small blocks, sheltered housing, hotels and community buildings. Frames on exposed elevations are where mastic normally fails first.
Our 12-month guarantee is about workmanship, not wear and tear. Sealant wears with time, and movement, weather, cleaning and use decide how fast, so we are clear about what is covered before work starts.
- Location
- Lochgilphead (PA31)
- Region
- Argyll and Bute
- Cover
- A 12-month guarantee
- Price
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
When something else is needed
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. On its own, sealant can’t deal with:
- Masonry that has broken away beside the joint
- Roof leaks, gutters or failed flashings that aren’t sealant joints
- Misted or failed double-glazed units
If in doubt, call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll say what we think before you book.
What we seal
- Communal entrances and stairwells
- External wall and movement joints
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
- Balcony and threshold joints
How a job runs
Occupied buildings need a little choreography. The work area is signed and kept contained, keep walkways clear and move on in phases so staff and visitors can carry on around us. For work around Lochgilphead, we aim for one trip, which is why we ask for photographs and a full list first. External joints need a dry spell as well.
- First we look at the mastic on each building and note what needs replacing.
- 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.
- We remove the old mastic completely and clean the joint faces back.
- 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.
Getting the site ready
- Agree which areas must stay open
- Flag any permit to work we’ll need
- Let building users know which areas are affected
Get a fixed quote
Let us know the site, the scope and your timescale, and we’ll put a fixed quote together. The easiest way is to call the office on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
Related advice
What the job involves on each surface
Planned maintenance
We can work into your cyclical maintenance plan on a timetable you set.
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Commercial buildings have mastic at shopfronts, entrances and external joints. A planned programme suits multi-building portfolios.
When to call us in Lochgilphead
Previous repairs often sealed new mastic over old. New silicone has nothing to grip on old silicone and the repair soon fails.
Typical triggers for a call:
- The same joint failures repeated across a portfolio
- Old repairs sealed over failed mastic
- Communal area joints that look neglected
- Cracked, hardened mastic round windows on a block
If you’re responsible for a building such as Christ Church, frame and door mastic needs the same attention as any other property.
Comparing quotes
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
- How they’ll work around occupants
- The named product and why it was chosen
- Who will actually carry out the work
Building owners, agents and FMs in Lochgilphead
We work for building owners and managing agents on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around Lochgilphead. Several sites can go on one quote, which keeps the paperwork simple.
If you look after buildings for someone else, you need clear quotes and clear reporting. You get a fixed quote, an agreed scope and a walk round at the end.
Towns and villages near Lochgilphead
What else we do in Lochgilphead
Questions about Lochgilphead
Will you take on work at estates like Kilmory Industrial Estate, close to Lochgilphead?
Yes. Our area takes in Lochgilphead and its surroundings, with estates and business parks such as Kilmory Industrial Estate included. To start, just speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with the unit, the joints involved and your access times.
Does the sea air around Lochgilphead change the choice of sealant?
It can, yes: buildings near the sea take more wind-driven rain, and salt in the air nearer the shore. That puts more weight on product choice, primers where the manufacturer specifies them, and correct joint sizing.
Which sealant will you use?
Where there’s a specification, we use the product it names. Otherwise, we recommend a product to suit the joint’s movement, the substrate and the conditions, following the manufacturer’s guidance.
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 will confirm with the quote.
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.
Do you do block-wide mastic programmes?
Block-wide and estate programmes are common. You get a fixed quote per building or for the whole job.
Is it fine to apply new sealant on top of old?
No. We cut the old material out and clean the joint back before sealing, since fresh sealant will not bond reliably to aged material.
For owners and agents in Lochgilphead
With the shore within about 1 mile, Lochgilphead counts as a coastal location. On buildings near the shore, the side facing the weather typically needs its mastic renewed first. The west of Scotland, where Lochgilphead is, gets more rain than the east. The weather side of a block usually needs attention first. Outside mastic goes on in dry spells, with some flexibility in the programme.
If your remit includes a building such as Lochgilphead High School, frame and door mastic can be programmed for the holidays. Landlords with units on estates such as Kilmory Industrial Estate (1.1 miles south-east of Lochgilphead) can bring frame, door and external mastic across several units into one programme.
Lochgilphead is about 27 miles west of Greenock, in Argyll and Bute. We send applicators to Lochgilphead for mastic joints. We work across 124 places in Argyll and Bute, large and small. For work in that direction, see our Glasgow page, about 47 miles away.
If you need mastic sealing in PA31, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. Streets here include Oban Road, Wilson Road and Smithy Lane, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. Access to Lochgilphead is via the A83 and A816 among other routes, so getting applicators and materials to site is simple. Just outside Lochgilphead, we also work in Ceann Loch Gilb (1 mile south-east), Ardrishaig (2 miles south), Cairnbaan (2 miles north-west), Bridgend (3 miles north) and Kilmichael Glassary (3 miles north). Lochgilphead is one of the busier places in Argyll and Bute, 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.
Landmarks near Lochgilphead
Recent enquiries here include premises near The Comm Public House. A little further out are Mid Argyll Community Hospital (0.7 miles east). Open spaces near Lochgilphead include Cam Loch.