Restalrig mastic sealing
Mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Restalrig and across Edinburgh. CHAS accredited and fully insured, with a 12-month guarantee.
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Failed external movement joints
- Worn sealant at communal door frames
Need mastic sealing in Restalrig?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Restalrig: questions and answers
Can you quote for a block close to Edinburgh Waverley station?
Yes. Managing agents, landlords, property factors and housing associations are who this service is for. Photos of each elevation help us quote accurately.
Do you cover business parks and estates near Restalrig, such as Albion Business Centre?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Restalrig, Albion Business Centre among them, are all within reach. A few photos and the unit address let us price the work.
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 external work may be moved if conditions aren’t right. Indoors, the weather is rarely a problem.
How long do sealant joints last?
Nobody can honestly give a figure in years, since movement, weather, cleaning and use all affect it. Regular checks let you plan resealing before leaks or damage.
How do you handle work on occupied blocks?
The work is planned around occupiers. Dates and areas are agreed with you so residents or tenants can be told and communal access is kept open.
Do you check for asbestos in old sealant?
In older buildings, old mastic can contain asbestos. We ask for the asbestos register or survey before work starts, and if it’s suspected, work stops until it’s tested.
How long before the joints can be used?
The product and site conditions decide that. Some take light use quickly, others need longer to cure, so we’ll confirm the curing time on the day.
Mastic sealing for commercial buildings in Restalrig
Managing agents and housing associations normally need paperwork before anyone starts. For documents, tell us what site paperwork you need (RAMS, insurance certificate, CSCS details) and we’ll confirm with the quote. We’re a Constructionline member and CHAS accredited, and we carry public liability insurance. We work on balcony and threshold joints, communal kitchens and washrooms and communal entrances and stairwells, and what we are called in for most is no planned programme for sealant and brittle perimeter mastic across a building. Sealant applicators who only do sealant are a different proposition from a general trade with a gun in the van: on jobs in Restalrig, preparation and product choice get the time they need.
In Scotland’s cities, housing associations look after blocks and estates of every age. A planned programme deals with failed mastic across an estate, block by block, with residents given notice through the landlord.
Building owners and contractors get the same cover: twelve months on the work we carried out. Faults in the structure, damage and other trades’ work fall outside it, and we say so plainly.
- Place
- Restalrig (EH7, EH8, EH6)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Cover
- 12 months on every job
- Quote
- Fixed quote, scope in writing
- Telephone
- 01277 525 020
- Updated
- 3 November 2026
Site staff or a sealant specialist?
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. Where it goes wrong is preparation: sealing over old material, sealing onto damp or dusty surfaces, or a product that can’t take the movement.
What you see is the finished bead, but most of the work is hidden. Correct depth, the right primer and a sealant matched to the movement are where general trades tend to cut corners.
Looking after the joints
After handover, these steps help:
- Plan resealing building by building rather than complaint by complaint
- Prioritise elevations facing the weather
- Make it easy for occupiers to report draughts
- Make mastic part of routine maintenance checks
Encourage occupiers to report water or draughts at frames. A quick report keeps a small repair small.
Joints on a building age together so a single failure is a sign to check the rest. Doing them together saves going back again and again.
Also near Restalrig
What else we do in Restalrig
What we are called out for in Restalrig
Poor preparation explains many failed joints. Without clean, sound faces and a primer where the product needs one it comes away from one face.
Common reasons buildings call us in:
- Cracked, hardened mastic round windows on a block
- A mix of products and colours from past repairs
- Movement joints with sealant missing
- The same joint failures repeated across a portfolio
If you own or manage units on a site such as Albion Business Centre, 0.5 miles to the west of Restalrig, failed mastic on frames, door surrounds and external joints can be dealt with unit by unit.
What your quote should include
- Which product they’ll use, and why it suits the joint
- Their approach to joint depth and backing
- Whether old or failed sealant will be cut out, not overlaid
- Health and safety accreditation such as CHAS
How the quote is worked out
The price varies from site to site. Expect it to depend on:
- Joint width, depth and condition
- Working within restricted access windows
- The site’s rules and procedures
- Access and working height
Small jobs and large programmes are priced from the same things: scope, access, product and programme. Call for a quote and we will put a fixed figure on it.
What we need to price the job
Good information means a firmer quote. When you get in touch, include:
- Where the site is, with the postcode
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- Any dates the work must fit around
- The product your specification calls for
For a fixed quote, call 01277 525 020 or email us. You can also send details through our quote form.
Planned mastic for Restalrig portfolios
Restalrig sits close to the coast, within about 1 mile. Sea-facing elevations take driven rain and salt, and their mastic shows it before the sheltered sides do; plan inspections around that. Eight care or nursing homes sit less than 2 miles from Restalrig. For owners and operators of care buildings, window perimeters and external joints are best renewed in planned phases around residents.
Buildings close to stations like Edinburgh Waverley station (to the west of Restalrig) are often flats over shops, with frame mastic to keep sound. Older community buildings, Restalrig Parish Church among them, often have frames of mixed ages whose mastic varies.
Restalrig is about 2 miles north-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. If you are looking for mastic sealing in Restalrig, we can help. 174 places across Edinburgh fall within our area, including Restalrig.
Commercial sites across EH7, EH8 and EH6 are covered for mastic joints. Streets here include Dalgety Road, Lochend Road and Loaning Road, and sites on any of them can send details for a fixed quote. We also cover Jock's Lodge (1 mile south), Lochend (1 mile west), Meadowbank (1 mile south-west), Piershill (1 mile south-east) and Willowbrae (1 mile south). A short drive away, we cover West End (3 miles west), West Coates (3 miles west), Merchiston (3 miles south-west), Queensferry (10 miles west), Comely Bank (3 miles west) and Southhouse (4 miles south).
Near you in Restalrig
Recent enquiries here include premises near McDonald Road Library, Public House and Lochend Park and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Edinburgh Waverley station, about 1.6 miles west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Edinburgh Castle (2.1 miles west) and St. James Centre (1.5 miles west). For a walk, there’s Whinny Hill and Dunsapie Loch.
Surface by 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
External movement joints take up expansion and contraction. Once that sealant goes, rain can reach the wall.
From enquiry to sign-off
We begin with a short walk round with whoever looks after the building, to confirm the scope, the order of work and any areas we must keep clear. After that, any old or failed material is removed, each joint is prepared and the new sealant goes in. Work on a big city site in Scotland typically involves inductions and permits. Tell us the rules and we will work to them.
- First comes a look at the joints and, for older buildings, the asbestos records.
- The products and programme are set out in a fixed quote.
- Failed mastic is removed completely.
- Joint faces are cleaned, backed and resealed.
- Buildings are completed in turn.
What we need from you
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Warn occupants and staff about the work
- Tell us what induction or permit system the site runs
Getting a fixed quote
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so you know the figure before anyone is on site. To ask for one, call the office on 01277 525 020 or use the quote form.