Southhouse washroom sealing
Sealant work in Southhouse for main contractors, managing agents and facilities managers: sealing in commercial washrooms, showers, kitchens and wet areas, with a fixed quote first.
- Washrooms that look worn because of the sealant
- A new bead over an old one coming away
- Failed sealant behind washroom basins
Need washroom sealing in Southhouse?
Send drawings, photos or a joint schedule, or tell us about the site, and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.
Honest limits
A proper diagnosis includes knowing what sealant can’t do. We’ll tell you if the real problem is one of these:
- Water escaping beneath the floor rather than through a joint
- Leaking pipes, traps, wastes or cisterns, which need a plumber
- Panel boards already damaged by water
If you’re not sure, just give us a call on 01277 525 020 or email a schedule or drawings and we’ll give you a straight answer.
Where we work in Southhouse
- IPS panels and cubicles
- Kitchens and tea points
- Urinals and WCs
- Accessible toilets and changing rooms
- Vanity units and basins
- Showers, trays and wet room floors
About our washroom sealing in Southhouse
Not every silicone belongs in a washroom. Sanitary grades carry anti-mould additives, and neutral-cure versions avoid the damage acetoxy types can do to some metals, stone and mirror backings. Where food contact is possible, we use a hygienic, food-safe grade. We work on vanity units and basins, IPS panels and cubicles and kitchens and tea points, and the failures we’re asked to look at most are urinal joints that look unhygienic and open joints along basins and vanity units. Searching for sealant specialists in Southhouse? Mastic Doctor has worked for contractors, FMs and building owners since 2005.
In Scotland’s cities, university, hospital and office estates have washrooms and wet areas in nearly every building. Phased resealing, agreed with the estates or facilities team, keeps buildings working.
We sign every job off with a 12-month guarantee. The promise is simple: if the work we did fails within twelve months, we return to fix it.
- Place
- Southhouse (EH17, EH16)
- Region
- Edinburgh
- Guarantee
- A 12-month guarantee
- Quote
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 01277 525 020
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
Should maintenance staff do it?
A short, simple internal joint is often within reach of a maintenance team. The usual problems come from preparation: new sealant over old, damp or dusty faces, or the wrong product for the movement.
Some joints are best left to specialists: fire-rated seals that must follow a tested detail, trafficked floor joints and external movement joints among them. Getting these wrong normally costs more in the end than doing them right.
Nearby places to Southhouse
Also in Southhouse
From enquiry to sign-off
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 we check in with your contact before moving on to each new area. For premises in Southhouse, tell us about access times, shared entrances and any building rules, and we will plan the work to suit, phased where areas need to stay in use.
- We start by inspecting the fittings and joints and flagging problems sealant can’t solve.
- A phasing plan keeps part of the building’s facilities in use at all times.
- Failed silicone is removed completely and the surfaces cleaned of every trace.
- Each joint is degreased and left dry, because silicone won’t bond to damp or soapy surfaces.
- We lay a sanitary silicone bead and tool it smooth so it is easy to clean.
- Each room is handed back once the sealant has had its cure time.
What we need from you
- For older buildings, check the asbestos register before work
- Let us know about inductions and permits
- Point out parking and an unloading spot
Quotes
A good quote starts with a clear picture: what’s there, how much of it, how we reach it and what’s specified. Send what you have, and we will arrange a site visit if anything is unclear.
Advice
For managing agents and facilities managers
We take on planned maintenance as well as one-off repairs: working through a building or an estate in stages that fit your budget. Sites in Southhouse can sit alongside others in a wider programme across Edinburgh.
Hospitality, education, healthcare, office and retail clients come to us directly as well. We plan around the way the building is used, so the building keeps working while we do.
Toilets, showers and kitchens around Southhouse
There are a number of hotels within about 2 miles of Southhouse. En suite bathrooms, staff changing rooms and kitchens all need their sanitary silicone renewed in time. The 2 miles around Southhouse include two care or nursing homes. In a care setting, a mouldy or lifting joint in a wet room is a hygiene issue as much as a cosmetic one. Each room is kept out of use only as long as the sealant needs.
Halls of residence and teaching buildings at universities such as University of Edinburgh Bioquarter (to the north-east of Southhouse) are easiest to reseal during vacations. At a school such as Gracemount High School, changing rooms and kitchens need cleanable joints as much as the toilets. Welfare facilities in units on estates such as Eldin Industrial Estate, 1 mile south-east of Southhouse, have showers, toilets and kitchens with sealant that works hard.
Southhouse is about 4 miles south-east of Edinburgh, in Edinburgh. Across the EH17 postcode area, the process is the same: send details, get a fixed quote, we seal, and the work is guaranteed. Southhouse is one of 174 places we cover in Edinburgh.
If you need washroom sealing in EH17 and EH16, the process matches everywhere else we work: send details, get a quote, we seal, guaranteed. If your site is on Tor Lane, Soutra Road and Mansion Lane or close by, send details and we will quote for washrooms and wet areas. Just outside Southhouse, we also work in Gracemount (1 mile north), Kaimes (1 mile west), Howden Hall (1 mile north-west), Alnwickhill (1 mile north-west) and Ellen's Glen (1 mile north-east). Further afield, our area takes in Edinburgh (4 miles north-west), Leith (6 miles north), Bonnington (5 miles north), Greenside (4 miles north), Broughton (4 miles north) and Bellevue (4 miles north).
Landmarks near Southhouse
In Southhouse, that means premises near Drum Park and Liberton Parish Church and the streets around them. The closest station to Southhouse is Shawfair station, about 2.8 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are Liberton Hospital (0.6 miles north) and Cameron Toll Shopping Centre (1.8 miles north). Not far away are Blackford Hill and Duddingston Loch.
Questions about Southhouse
Must a hotel around Southhouse close while you work?
Rarely, if ever. We take a few rooms out at a time. The plan is built around your bookings.
Could you schedule work at a campus like University of Edinburgh Bioquarter for the vacation?
Yes. Tell us the term dates, vacation periods and access windows, and we will plan the work around them. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member, and paperwork such as RAMS is confirmed with the quote.
Do you hold CHAS accreditation?
Yes. We’re CHAS accredited and a Constructionline member.
Will you quote for a small job?
Whatever the size, the process is the same: details, then a fixed price, then sealing, then a 12-month guarantee.
Do you take on multi-site work?
Yes. A group of buildings can go on one quote, and you deal with one contact throughout.
Will you come and look before quoting?
Many jobs can be quoted from photographs, drawings or a joint schedule. If the job needs a look first, we’ll arrange a visit before quoting.
Do your applicators hold CSCS cards?
Yes. We use CSCS-carded applicators, which many sites require.
What affects the price in Southhouse
Each job is priced on its own details. The main factors are:
- Working within restricted access windows
- Quantities, in metres or numbers
- Access and working height
- Location, for remote and island sites
Pricing washrooms and wet areas depends on quantities, condition and access. Ask us for a fixed quote.
What we need to price the job
To price the job accurately, we need to understand the site. Useful things to include:
- When you need the work done
- Specification clauses that apply
- Whether an asbestos survey exists
- The postcode of the building
Quotes are fixed against the scope you send, so the cost is agreed before work starts. To ask for one, call 01277 525 020 or email the details over.
Leave it or put it right?
Bleaching black sealant may lighten it for a few days but the growth is inside the bead and returns. Replacement deals with the cause in the joint and your cleaning team stops chasing it. In a tenement or shared city building, water from a failed joint can reach other owners’ property. Acting early avoids disputes and bigger repairs.
Cost follows what’s involved: stripping out, preparation, sealing, access and phasing. Call for a fixed quote and we will explain how it’s made up.
Why us?
- Colour agreed before work starts
- Coloured sealants to suit the setting, where available
- 12-month guarantee on workmanship
- Our applicators hold CSCS cards
Read what affects the cost and our accreditations.