Mastic man in Colchester

Resealing and mastic work across Colchester

Colchester became a city in 2022, and it has one of the widest spreads of housing in Essex: historic streets inside the old walls, Victorian and inter-war suburbs, large post-war and 1980s estates, and new neighbourhoods on former army and hospital land. Mr Mastic is based in Crawley and covers Colchester and the villages around it, coming up the A12.

We reseal baths, showers, kitchens and basins, replace mastic around windows and doors and seal external joints. A good seal in a busy bathroom lasts years, not months, if the old material is fully removed and the joint is dry before the new bead goes in. Our guide to how long silicone sealant lasts explains what shortens its life.

Historic quarters, big estates and former army land

North of the High Street, the Dutch Quarter has more than 60 historic houses, several of them listed, and Lexden Village has its own conservation area. Older houses like these have walls and floors that move, and bathrooms squeezed into small rooms. We often find several layers of old sealant on top of each other, which all have to come out before a lasting joint can be made. Where a bath has dropped slightly on an old floor, we pack the gap first so the new bead isn’t stretched thin.

Greenstead is Colchester’s largest estate, and Highwoods was built in the early 1980s, with the first owners moving in around 1983. Homes from that time are now on their second or third set of sealant, and window and patio door mastic laid decades ago has usually hardened and pulled away from the brick.

Newer homes have arrived in large numbers. The Garrison area has new housing on roads such as Roberts Road, Sergeant Street and Garrison Parade, Severalls Hospital was replaced with more than 700 homes after it closed in 1997, and Stanway has the Lakelands development. In new builds, sealant often fails in the first year or two as the house settles, and we cut it out and reseal it properly.

Our services in Colchester

• Bathroom & kitchen resealing: Bathroom and kitchen joints taken back to a clean, dry surface and finished with fresh anti-fungal silicone that won’t lift.
• Window & door mastic: Frame perimeters inside and out resealed with flexible, colour-matched sealant, with backing rod where the gap is deep.
• Commercial & hotel sealant: Sealant programmes for offices, hotels, care settings and schools, with early or late working where it helps.
• Remedial sealant & repairs: Leaks and lifting beads from earlier sealant jobs put right, starting with finding out why they failed.
• Fire-rated sealant: Fire-rated sealant for service penetrations and frame gaps where it has been specified, applied to the tested details.
• External & façade joints: Split or perished joints in walls and cladding replaced with exterior sealant designed to stretch with the building.
• New-build mastic & snagging: Snagging sealant for new homes and plot-by-plot mastic for builders and developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Skirting-to-floor gaps, tiled floor movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with the right product.
• Regrouting: Crumbling grout in showers and wet areas raked out and refilled, so water stays out of the wall behind.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Conservatory, rooflight, glass panel and shower screen joints resealed with glazing silicone.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Sash and case window surrounds in stone and brick re-pointed with traditional sand mastic.

Choosing a mastic man in Colchester

Colchester is a fair way from our Crawley base, so we plan each visit to get the job done properly in one trip. You’ll be dealing with a fully insured firm with over 20 years’ experience and ARBOMaster approved applicator status, using Arbo and Everbuild sealants. We’ve completed 2,847+ projects and hold a 4.9-star Google rating from more than 180 five-star reviews. A clear quote comes first, and a one-year guarantee follows the finished job.

Around Colchester

For trains, Colchester Town station is closest to the centre. Places most people will know nearby are Lion Walk (less than half a mile south-east), Social History Museum (less than half a mile south) and Colchester Castle (less than half a mile east). Closer in, we work on homes, rented flats and businesses near St John's Green Primary School, Colchester Sixth Form College, Church of St Peter and The Bay And Say Public House. For open space, Westhouse Wood is close by.