Mastic Sealing in Upstreet
Our CSCS-carded applicators take on mastic sealing for building owners, managing agents and housing associations in Upstreet and the surrounding area. Send details for a fixed quote.
- Complaints coming in block by block
- Window mastic that has split and shrunk
- Estate-wide sealant that is simply worn out
Mastic sealing for businesses in Upstreet
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 Upstreet
In buildings from before 2000, some old mastics contain asbestos. We check the asbestos register or survey before any old sealant is cut out, and work stops for testing if there’s any doubt. Removing asbestos-containing material isn’t something we do. We work on external wall and movement joints, balcony and threshold joints and communal entrances and stairwells, and the usual reasons a site gets in touch are water getting in round frames after rain and window mastic that has split and shrunk. One point of contact handles commercial sealant work in Upstreet from the first photographs to the final walk-round, for single jobs and planned programmes alike.
In and around smaller places like Upstreet, landlords and agents often look after small groups of housing association properties, converted farm buildings and community buildings. Frame and wall-joint mastic on all of them ages and hardens.
Every job is signed off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Location
- Upstreet (CT3)
- Wider area
- Kent
- Guarantee
- 12 months on every job
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Call
- 01277 525 020
- Page updated
- 3 November 2026
Diagnose, treat, sign off
Diagnose, treat, sign off: every visit follows that pattern. We inspect the joints and confirm what’s in scope, then the work is carried out to the specified product and detail, and the job ends with a walk round and sign-off. Jobs in and around smaller places like Upstreet are typically planned as a single visit, so photos and measurements up front really help. That way the right products come on the day.
- We check the asbestos register for older buildings and look at the joints.
- A fixed quote covers the joints, products and order of work.
- We strip out the old sealant.
- Joint faces are cleaned, backed and resealed.
- Buildings are completed in turn.
What we need from you
- Tell us which areas need to stay in use
- Let building users know which areas are affected
- Have the specification and drawings to hand
Request a quote
The quickest route to a quote is a few photographs and the site postcode. Upload them with the quote form, or ring 01277 525 020 or email us to discuss it first.
Advice
Quoting for work in Upstreet
Your fixed quote is built from the real scope. It takes account of:
- The site’s rules and procedures
- How accessible the joints are
- Specialist products, such as fire-rated or hygienic sealants
- How much existing material needs removing
Larger quantities, tricky access or phasing all shape the price. Site requirements like inductions and permits play a part as well.
What to include in your enquiry
Diagnosis starts before we arrive. Let us know:
- Drawings or a marked-up plan, if available
- When you need the work done
- Access details, including height
- The product your specification calls for
Send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed: that’s how every job runs. The first step is to call the office on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form with what you know.
Upstreet: questions and answers
Is Canterbury Industrial Park, near Upstreet, within your area?
Yes. Estates, retail parks and business parks around Upstreet, Canterbury Industrial Park among them, are all within reach. A few photos and the unit address let us price the work.
Is a smaller place like Upstreet outside your area?
Not at all: smaller places are covered as well as towns. We cover Greater London and the counties of the South East. Send photos and a list of what needs doing, and we’ll plan the job to need as few trips as possible.
Can you plan resealing across several buildings?
We can. We survey and price each building, then work through them in order, and the programme can start with the worst.
Is mastic sealing guaranteed?
Every building we reseal has a 12-month guarantee. It covers our workmanship, not later building movement, damage or frame failures.
When is resealing likely to be due?
There isn’t a single answer, since movement, weather, cleaning and use all affect it. Regular inspection is the best way to catch problems early.
Who decides which product is used?
The specification comes first, if there is one. Without one, the joint decides: its movement, its surfaces and what it has to cope with.
What will the job cost?
There isn’t a price list, because every site is different. Send photographs or drawings and we’ll price it at a fixed figure.
What the job involves on each surface
External movement joints
The joint width has to suit the movement and the sealant’s capability with the width-to-depth ratio set as the manufacturer advises.
Commercial and mixed-use buildings
Mixed-use buildings combine shops below with flats or offices above the programme has to suit everyone. Tell us your site hours and access windows and we will plan around them.
What we can’t put right
Being straight saves everyone time. Fresh joints won’t solve:
- Glazing that needs replacing
- Cracked or crumbling render, brick or stone at the joint edges (we’ll tell you if so)
- Roof leaks, gutters or failed flashings that aren’t sealant joints
If in doubt, speak to us on 01277 525 020 or send details through our quote form and we’ll say what we think.
What we seal
- Window and door perimeters on blocks
- Shopfronts below residential blocks
- Communal kitchens and washrooms
- External wall and movement joints
- Communal entrances and stairwells
- Balcony and threshold joints
Looking after the joints
To get the most from the new sealant:
- Check sealant joints during planned building inspections
- Make it easy for occupiers to report draughts
- Protect low-level joints in entrances
- Group repairs into a planned programme
Log the date and extent of the resealing for each block. That makes future programmes easier to plan and gives you a history.
Budgets are easier to plan when sealant is part of planned maintenance. We can quote buildings in priority order and work down the list.
Block-wide mastic in Upstreet
At about 57 miles from central London, Upstreet is within reach of the capital. Commuter-belt towns tend to have plenty of managed blocks near stations and town centres. The South East is one of the drier parts of the UK. Even so, frame mastic only goes on in dry, workable conditions, and elevations facing the sun and the prevailing weather are normally where frame mastic ages first.
Buildings close to stations like Sturry station (to the south-west of Upstreet) are often flats over shops, with frame mastic to keep sound. Churches, halls and community buildings such as Church of St Mary the Virgin are looked after by trustees and committees like any other owner, and their frames, doors and external joints need mastic renewed in time.
Upstreet is about 4 miles south-east of Herne Bay, in Kent. Upstreet sits inside our coverage and the rest of Kent, and jobs here get the same fixed quote and 12-month guarantee as anywhere else. 931 places across Kent fall within our area, including Upstreet. Sites around London have their own page, about 57 miles away.
We take on mastic joints across the CT3 postcode area. Among the streets we cover are St Mary's Gardens, Becketts Wood and Grove Ferry Hill. Just outside Upstreet, we also work in Grove (1 mile south), West Stourmouth (2 miles east), Sarre (2 miles north-east), Preston (2 miles south-east) and East Stourmouth (2 miles east). Bigger towns within reach include Canterbury (6 miles south-west), Margate (9 miles north-east), Dover (14 miles south), Ramsgate (9 miles east), Broadstairs (10 miles east) and Whitstable (8 miles west).
Near you in Upstreet
Recent enquiries here include premises near Grove Ferry Picnic Area, Spires Academy and The Grove Ferry Inn, among other places. Upstreet’s nearest station is Sturry station, about 3.8 miles south-west. Nearby you’ll also find St Martins Hospital (5.2 miles south-west). For a walk, there’s West Blean and Thornden Woods.
Do you need mastic sealing in Upstreet?
Buildings move with temperature and moisture, and every joint has to stretch and squeeze with them. A joint that was too narrow, too thin or the wrong product can’t cope long before it should.
What tends to prompt an enquiry:
- Damaged joints in communal entrances and corridors
- Water getting in round frames after rain
- Draught complaints from residents or tenants
- Old repairs sealed over failed mastic
If you own or manage units on a site such as Canterbury Industrial Park, which lies south-west of Upstreet, failed mastic on frames, door surrounds and external joints can be dealt with unit by unit.
What to look for in a quote
- Will failed sealant be removed rather than covered?
- What level of public liability insurance do they hold?
- Is depth set with backing rod, or bond-breaker tape in shallow joints?
- Are they CHAS accredited or on Constructionline?