Polwarth mastic sealing
Mastic sealing for Polwarth, from a contractor working since 2005. Fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Occupiers reporting cold air round windows
- Complaints coming in block by block
- Mastic failing across several blocks on an estate
Mastic sealing across Polwarth
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Mastic sealing for commercial buildings in Polwarth
Our clients include managing agents, property factors in Scotland, housing associations and landlords with block or commercial portfolios. A planned, building-by-building programme often works better than reacting to each complaint, with each block quoted and scheduled in turn. We work on shopfronts below residential blocks, communal kitchens and washrooms and balcony and threshold joints, and what we are called in for most is occupiers reporting cold air round windows and damp patches beside frames. For commercial sealant work in Polwarth, you deal with one contact from quote to sign-off, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
Scotland’s city blocks are largely sandstone or, in Aberdeen, granite, so perimeter mastic around replacement windows has to be neutral-cure and kind to the masonry.
Work we carry out comes with a 12-month guarantee. Should something we installed fail, give us a call on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form and we’ll come back to it.
- Place
- Polwarth (EH11, EH14, EH10)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on our workmanship
- Quotes
- A fixed quote before we start
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
How a job runs
Tell us your site hours and access windows and we’ll plan around them. On the day, the work area is kept contained and tidy, and your contact hears from us before we move to the next area. University, hospital and office estates in Scotland’s cities have their own permits, inductions and sign-in rules. Pass on the site’s contractor rules when you get in touch.
- 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.
- New sealant goes in with backing rod and primer where needed.
- Each building is checked and signed off with the 12-month guarantee.
Before we start on site
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
- Share your working hours and any access restrictions
Get a fixed quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, phone 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.
Advice
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Maintenance after handover
Keep the joints in good shape with a few simple steps:
- Have the asbestos survey to hand for older buildings
- Keep bins and bikes away from communal door frames
- Prioritise elevations facing the weather
- Avoid piecemeal callouts where you can
Log the date and extent of the resealing for each block. It helps plan the next round and gives you a history.
Mastic fails gradually, then all at once in a wet spell. Acting at the first signs keeps it a straightforward reseal and saves internal repairs.
Do you need mastic sealing in Polwarth?
Buildings move with temperature and moisture, and every joint has to stretch and squeeze with them. If the joint or the product wasn’t suited to the movement, it splits long before it should.
Typical triggers for a call:
- No planned programme for sealant
- Mastic failing across several blocks on an estate
- Movement joints with sealant missing
- Water getting in round frames after rain
Blocks of flats and mixed-use buildings often cluster around stations such as Slateford station (to the south-west of Polwarth) and their window and balcony mastic tends to age at the same rate across a building.
Questions to ask before you book
- The terms of the workmanship guarantee
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
Your questions answered
Do you cover business parks and estates near Polwarth, such as West Gorgie Park Industrial Estate?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Polwarth, West Gorgie Park Industrial Estate among them, are all within reach. Photos and a short description are enough for a first look.
Do you work in occupied care homes around Polwarth?
Yes, with the manager deciding the order and timing of rooms. Noise and disruption are kept to a minimum.
How long before the joints can be used?
We’ll confirm how long the chosen product needs to cure, and sign any area that should be left alone.
Do you check for asbestos in old sealant?
We don’t remove asbestos-containing materials. If old sealant is suspected, work stops until it’s tested in line with the dutyholder’s asbestos management.
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.
Is Polwarth in your area?
Yes. Polwarth is in our area and the rest of Edinburgh, within our coverage of Greater London, South East England and Scotland. To discuss a job, ring 01277 525 020 or email drawings and photos.
Can you plan resealing across several buildings?
We can. Each building is inspected, quoted and scheduled in turn starting wherever is most urgent.
Looking after buildings in and around Polwarth
With the shore within about 3 miles, Polwarth counts as a coastal location. On buildings near the shore, the side facing the weather normally needs its mastic renewed first, and they deserve more regular inspection. Polwarth is in the east of Scotland, which is drier than the west. Outside mastic still waits for dry, frost-clear conditions. We plan block programmes with some give for it
If you manage student housing near a university such as Edinburgh Napier University - Merchiston Campus (0.6 miles east of Polwarth), the summer turnaround is the time for mastic. Schools and community buildings such as Craiglockhart Primary School need frame and external mastic kept sound like any building.
Polwarth is about 1 mile south-west of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Looking for mastic sealing in Polwarth? We can help, as we do across Edinburgh. Our Edinburgh coverage takes in 174 places, large and small.
Commercial sites across EH11, EH14 and EH10 are covered for mastic joints. Among the streets we cover are Cowan Road, Spylaw Road and Ettrick Road. We also cover Shandon (1 mile north), Gorgie (1 mile north-west), Slateford (1 mile west), Westfield (1 mile north-west) and Burghmuirhead (1 mile east). A short drive away, we cover Leith (4 miles north-east), Bonnington (3 miles north-east), Gayfield (3 miles north-east), Pilrig (3 miles north-east), North Leith (4 miles north-east) and Queensferry (8 miles north-west).
Landmarks near Polwarth
In Polwarth, that means premises near Harrison Park, Boroughmuir High School and Gabrielle Keiller Library. Other local landmarks include The Athletic Arms (0.6 miles north) and Iain Tomlin School of Music (0.6 miles east). The closest station to Polwarth is Slateford station, about 0.7 miles south-west. Well-known places in the area include Murrayfield Experience (0.9 miles north-west) and Waverley Mall (2.1 miles north-east). For a walk, there’s Dunsapie Loch and Craiglockhart Hill.
Work for main contractors and building owners
Whether you are a managing agent, a property factor or an owner’s representative: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, guaranteed. Keys, access and contacts can be agreed in advance.
FMs need a contractor who is easy to get on site. Tell us what site paperwork you need, such as RAMS, an insurance certificate or CSCS details, and we’ll confirm with the quote.
How the job changes by surface
Tenement and older buildings
Some old mastics in pre-2000 buildings contain asbestos, so we check the asbestos register or survey first. If it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested.
External movement joints
Joint size and product are matched to the expected movement, often around 2:1 width to depth, as the manufacturer advises.
Doing it in-house
Redoing a failed joint usually costs more than getting it right at the outset, since all of it has to come out and the faces be cleaned back again. That’s why many clients bring in a specialist from the beginning.
Site maintenance staff can often handle a short internal joint. Where it goes wrong is preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.