Mastic Sealing in Longstone
We carry out mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Longstone. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Failed external movement joints
- Window mastic that has split and shrunk
- Draughts at frames across a block
Mastic sealing in Longstone
Photos, a specification or a quick description of the joints is enough to start a fixed quote.
Planned mastic for Longstone portfolios
Longstone has 10 care or nursing homes no more than 2 miles away. Owners of care premises can bring window and door mastic into a phased programme planned around the home. Being in the east of Scotland, Longstone gets less rain than the west coast. External mastic still needs a dry joint and the right temperature, and winter mornings can be frosty.
If your remit includes a building such as Merchiston Castle School, frame and door mastic can be programmed for the holidays. Student blocks close to universities like Edinburgh Napier University, under half a mile north-east of Longstone, are easiest to work on between tenancies.
Longstone is about 3 miles south-west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Across the EH14 postcode area, the process is the same: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. We work across 174 places in Edinburgh.
Anyone looking for mastic sealing in EH14, EH11 and EH13 gets the same process as the rest of our area: details, then a fixed price, then sealing and a 12-month guarantee. For a building on Redhall Road, New Mart Road and Dumbryden Road or nearby, send details and we will quote for mastic joints. Main routes into Longstone include the A71, which helps when planning parking and deliveries for the job. Just outside Longstone, we also work in Parkhead (1 mile north-east), Redhall (1 mile east), Kingsknowe (1 mile south), Saughton (1 mile north-west) and Chesser (1 mile north-east). Nearby towns on our patch include Edinburgh (3 miles north-east), Leith (5 miles north-east), Bonnington (5 miles north-east), Greenside (4 miles north-east), Broughton (4 miles north-east) and Bellevue (4 miles north-east).
What’s near Longstone
Locally, jobs take us to sites close to Saughton Park, Balgreen Primary School and Firrhill High School, among other places. There’s a railway station in Longstone itself: Kingsknowe station. Nearby you will also find Craiglockhart Hydropathic (0.9 miles south-east) and The Gyle Shopping Centre (2.4 miles north-west). For a walk, there’s Craiglockhart Hill and The New Leaf Co-op.
Mastic sealing in Longstone
We work for building owners, landlords with commercial or block portfolios, managing agents and housing associations. Many prefer a planned programme to one-off visits, with each block quoted and scheduled in turn. We work on balcony and threshold joints, window and door perimeters on blocks and external wall and movement joints, and the failures we’re asked to look at most are a mix of products and colours from past repairs and damp patches beside frames. Whether you call it commercial sealant work, mastic application or joint sealing, in Longstone it comes down to the same thing: the right product in a properly prepared joint.
Housing associations and councils in Scotland’s cities manage large estates of flats and maisonettes. Planned mastic programmes can renew frame and external joints block by block, with residents given notice through the landlord.
Work we carry out comes with a 12-month guarantee. Should something we installed fail, phone 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos and we’ll come back to it.
- Where
- Longstone (EH14, EH11, EH13)
- Wider area
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
What affects the price in Longstone
Quotes vary with the job. Expect it to depend on:
- Backing rod, priming and other preparation
- Site requirements such as inductions and permits
- The total length or number of joints
- How much existing material needs removing
The product called for affects the cost, as does the preparation each joint needs. Access, phasing and site rules also count.
Details that help us quote
Good information means a firmer quote. Helpful details to send:
- Your programme or deadline
- A wide shot and a close-up of the area
- The postcode of the building
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
If there’s a specification, drawings or a tender package, send it with your enquiry, and we’ll price the work to it. For smaller jobs, photographs and a description will do.
Also in Longstone
Building owners, agents and FMs in Longstone
Building owners and managing agents use us on sealant work across single buildings or whole portfolios around Longstone. Several sites can go on one quote, so there’s one set of paperwork to deal with.
Blocks and communal areas make up much of the work for housing associations and agents. We phase the work so people keep access, with each stage agreed with your site contact.
How a job runs
We follow your site rules from the start: signing in, inductions and any permit to work. With the paperwork done, the joints are worked through in the order agreed with your site contact, and each area is checked before we leave it. Work on a big city site in Scotland usually involves inductions and permits. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- Each block or building is walked and the failed joints recorded with the likely cause.
- You get a fixed quote, priced per building where that helps your budgeting.
- The programme is fixed with you, including dates you can pass on to residents or tenants.
- Old sealant is stripped and each face prepared back to firm material.
- Deep joints get backing rod, faces are primed if the manufacturer specifies it, then the joint is sealed and tooled.
- Finished joints are looked over and the 12-month guarantee confirmed.
What we need from you
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
- Send asbestos survey details if the building is pre-2000
- Move anything stored against the joints
Ask for a quote
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. To take the first step, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings.
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What we’re called out for in Longstone
Occasionally the substrate fails, not the sealant, such as crumbling render, brick arrises or frame edges. We’ll tell you if the joint edges need repairing before resealing.
These are often picked up first by site or facilities staff:
- Communal area joints that look neglected
- Mastic failing across several blocks on an estate
- Failed external movement joints
- Draughts at frames across a block
If you look after a block within reach of Kingsknowe station, under half a mile to the south-west of Longstone, frame and balcony mastic can be renewed on one programme.
Questions to ask before you book
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
- Will RAMS and insurance details be available?
- How joint depth will be controlled
- How the joint faces will be prepared and primed
FAQs: Longstone
Can you quote for a block close to Kingsknowe station?
Yes. Blocks of any size are within what we do. Give us the building’s details and say how residents are notified, and we will quote and plan to suit.
Can you work in a care home near Longstone with residents in?
Yes. We work around residents’ routines, a room or two at a time. We follow the home’s own procedures throughout.
How soon can the area be used again?
We’ll confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and sign any area that should be left alone.
How long do sealant joints last?
There isn’t a single answer, since movement, weather, cleaning and use all affect it. Regular checks let you plan resealing before leaks or damage.
Do you work with property factors and landlords?
Yes, that’s exactly who this service is for. We work through buildings in a planned order so you can plan around it.
Is mastic sealing guaranteed?
Our workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee, backed by public liability insurance.
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.
Keeping the joints sound
Cleaning and maintenance staff play a part too. Share these points with them:
- Track which buildings were done and when
- Keep bins and bikes away from communal door frames
- Include mastic in your cyclical inspections
- Check the asbestos register before any old mastic is disturbed
Keep bins, bikes and deliveries away from low-level joints where you can. Knocks cause many early failures in communal areas.
Planned resealing is easier to budget than emergency repairs. A programme can start with the worst buildings and work down the list.
When it isn’t the sealant
Our job is the joint, not everything around it. On its own, sealant can’t deal with:
- Leaks through the frame itself rather than the perimeter
- Old mastic suspected of containing asbestos, which must be tested and dealt with by a specialist first
- Glazing that needs replacing
Not sure which it is? You can call 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we will tell you honestly before you book.
Surfaces we seal
- Balcony and threshold joints
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- Communal entrances and stairwells
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- External wall and movement joints
- Window and door perimeters on blocks