Kent · England
External & façade joints in Maxton, Kent
External mastic for Maxton, by sealant specialists with 20+ years’ experience. Rated 4.9 on Google from 180+ five-star reviews.
- Leaking joints around cladding and façade panels
- Sealant that has lost its bond to the brick or render
- Water getting into walls through failed joints
DIY sealant or a professional job?
If you do try it yourself, take your time over the preparation: remove every trace of old sealant, clean and dry the joint, and follow the product’s cure time. If it fails, we can still redo it.
What a professional job adds is preparation and the right product. We take joints back to clean, dry surfaces, and the sealant is chosen for how the joint moves and where it is, then guaranteed for a year.
How we handle external mastic in Maxton
Short cuts in external joints show up within a season or two. New sealant over old, joints packed with mortar and beads with no backing rarely last long. We take the old material out and do it properly. We’re often asked to deal with failed sealant between panels on a façade and rigid filler in a joint that should flex, on render & cladding joints, copings & trims and façade panels.
In a village or hamlet like Maxton, older cottages and farm buildings often stand in the open, where walls and rooflines take the weather head on. Joints on those walls need a sealant that moves with the building and stays in place.
A one-year guarantee comes as standard.
- Location
- Maxton (CT17, CT15)
- Region
- Kent
- Cover
- One year on every job
- Quotes
- Quoted before any work starts
- Phone
- 0345 464 0079
- Page updated
- 26 October 2026
The process
There’s no need to move everything out before we come, just the space around the work. Everything nearby is protected, and the job takes anything from a few hours to several days, depending on the building for a typical job. For a village or hamlet like Maxton, the journey is planned in advance: tell us about narrow lanes, gates, long drives and where we can park. Everything for the job comes with us, so a second trip is avoided where possible.
- We start by walking round the building and agreeing the joints and the access.
- We cut out the old mastic and rake out anything in the joint.
- The faces are brushed clean and primed where the product requires it.
- Backing rod sized to the joint goes in to set the depth.
- The exterior sealant is applied, tooled and checked along its length.
How to prepare
- Tell us about any water getting in
- Mention any tricky access
- Tell us about any previous sealing or DIY attempts
Get a quote
Call for a quick quote, or send an email if you’d rather. Tell us about the joints that need doing and we’ll talk you through the work and send you a clear quote.
Advice
External mastic in Maxton: local notes
Maxton is close to the coast, and homes near the sea take more wind-driven rain, with salt in the air closer to the shore. That is hard on movement joints and outside wall joints, especially on the side facing the sea. Rainfall in the South East is lower than in much of the UK, yet outdoor joints still have to be sealed dry, so jobs are booked with the weather in mind.
Homes close to St Martin's Church include some older properties, and the joints between older walls, newer extensions and the roofline need a sealant that can move. Letting a property close to Dover Priory station? Then split movement joints are easy to miss on a rental until damp shows inside.
Maxton is about 1 mile south-west of Tower Hamlets, in Kent. For external mastic in and around Maxton, please phone 0345 464 0079 or drop us an email for a quick quote. We are based in Crawley and cover Kent. Maxton is one of 922 places in Kent we cover for external mastic. For nearby work, see our Chelmsford page.
Every address in CT17 and CT15 is within our area for external mastic. Local streets include Cow Lane, Manor Road and Mount Road, and we cover them all. Nearby, we also carry out external mastic in Aycliffe (1 mile south), Farthingloe (1 mile south-west), Dover (1 mile north), Church Hougham (2 miles west) and River (2 miles north). Within a short drive, we also cover Canterbury (14 miles north-west), Folkestone (6 miles south-west), Deal (8 miles north-east), Hythe (10 miles west), Walmer (7 miles north-east) and Hawkinge (6 miles west).
Around Maxton
Locally, jobs take us to homes and businesses close to Crown & Sceptre pub, Astor College for the Arts and St Edmund's Catholic School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Dover Priory station, about 0.8 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Old Town Gaol (1 mile north-east) and Dover Castle (1.6 miles east). The countryside around Maxton includes Dover Western Heights.
Surface by surface
Joints between dissimilar materials
Wherever two materials meet, they move differently. We seal the joint with a flexible exterior sealant so neither cracks the other.
Cladding and façade panels
If the façade has a specified sealant, that’s what we use, or one the system allows. Send us any details you have about the façade.
Your questions about external mastic in Maxton
Will you come out to Maxton?
Yes, we do. Our work covers London and the South East, from towns to the smallest places. Longer journeys are simply planned in advance.
I let a flat near Dover Priory station. Can you help?
Yes, we work for letting agents and landlords. Just call 0345 464 0079 or drop us an email and tell us about the property, and we’ll send you a clear quote.
Are you ARBOMaster approved?
Yes. We are ARBOMaster approved, the scheme for applicators of Arbo sealants.
What do you need from me for a quote?
Let us know what needs doing and where. We will ask anything else we need to know.
What sealant do you use?
We choose the sealant for the joint, not the other way round. Movement, water and weather all affect the choice, and we’ll explain our choice.
Are you fully insured?
Yes. We’re fully insured for every job we do.
Can you seal over the old sealant?
No, because it fails. We remove every bit of old sealant first, so the new joint bonds to clean surfaces.
Do I have to be there?
For indoor joints, yes, someone needs to let us in. Once we have agreed the job, you do not need to watch us work.
Signs you need external mastic in Maxton
Joints sealed without backing rod, or far too deep, rarely last. If the sealant sticks to the back as well as the sides, it can’t stretch and tears as soon as the joint widens.
Keep an eye out for any of the following:
- Weathered mastic that no longer stretches
- Brick movement joints where the sealant has split
- Water getting into walls through failed joints
- Plants rooting in failed movement joints
If you look after a building such as St Martin's School, its movement joints, gutters and trims need looking after like any other building’s.
What your quote should include
- When the joint can take water or movement
- How hidden problems are handled
- Is VAT in the price?
- Whether all the old sealant comes out first
For landlords and businesses
From a single let to a portfolio, you get the same standard of work: old sealant fully removed, joints prepared properly and a 12-month guarantee.
If you manage several properties in or around Maxton, several properties can be quoted together. Just tell us the addresses and what each one needs.
How to look after the new joints
No joint lasts for ever, but care makes a real difference. Our tips:
- Act on the first splits you see
- Walk round the building once a year and look at the joints
- Wash walls gently around the sealant
- Show decorators and builders where the movement joints are
If you have more work done on the wall, such as new render, cladding or an opening, show the contractor the movement joints. They must stay as flexible joints, never rendered or pointed over.
Act while the splits are small. At that stage it’s a simple cut out and reseal with no damage behind it to deal with.
Why it’s worth doing now in Maxton
A failed movement joint lets water into the wall, behind render and cladding. Dealing with it early keeps the repair to the joint, rather than the wall around it. Older cottages and farmhouses around Maxton can have timber floors and frames, and water through a failed joint can rot timber if it’s left.
What it costs depends on the amount of work, how much old material has to come out and how easy the joints are to reach. We give a clear quote before we start, so you know where you stand.
Why us?
- Approved under the ARBOMaster scheme
- 4.9 on Google from 180+ five-star reviews
- More than 20 years in sealant work
- Colour agreed with you before any work starts
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