Mastic man in Ewell

Mastic and sealant work in Ewell

Two quite different places share the name Ewell. One is the old village around the crossroads of High Street, Church Street, West Street and London Road, protected as a conservation area since 1972. The other is the much larger spread of 1930s suburbs around it: West Ewell, East Ewell, Ewell Court and the edges of Stoneleigh and Cuddington, all in the borough of Epsom and Ewell. Mr Mastic covers both from our base in Crawley.

The materials may differ between a timber-framed cottage and an interwar semi, but good sealant work always starts the same way: all the old bead out, the joint cleaned, treated and dried, then fresh sealant chosen for the job. For a leaking shower in particular, our guide to leaking shower sealant explains what to check.

Old village core, interwar suburbs

Ewell Village has an unusual range of old buildings for its size. The borough’s conservation area appraisal lists sixteenth and seventeenth-century timber-framed houses on the High Street, eighteenth and early nineteenth-century gentry houses with sash windows on Church Street and Spring Street, and one-room-deep weatherboarded cottages painted white on streets such as West Street and Mill Lane. Some timber-framed houses were given Georgian fronts using mathematical tiles. The appraisal also notes that uPVC replacement windows are a recurring problem on older buildings.

Most of Ewell, though, was built in the 1930s. East Ewell is mainly 1930s and 1940s semi-detached houses, Ewell Court ward has about 1,200 semis, and the Nonsuch ward to the east has more than 1,700 detached homes. These houses have usually had several new bathrooms and kitchens over the decades, and their original windows have mostly been replaced.

So the work is varied: flexible, colour-matched joints on period frames, stripping layered sealant in interwar bathrooms, and renewing tired mastic around replacement uPVC windows and doors.

What we do in Ewell

• 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: Window and door mastic that has dried out in the sun replaced with a weather-resistant joint that can move with the frame.
• Commercial & hotel sealant: Hotels, offices, washrooms and welfare areas resealed room by room, with out-of-hours working possible to arrange.
• Remedial sealant & repairs: Second opinions on sealant that keeps failing: we strip it out, check for movement or leaks and reseal it properly.
• Fire-rated sealant: Fire-rated and intumescent sealant around gaps, frames and service penetrations, to the product’s tested details.
• External & façade joints: Brickwork movement joints, render and cladding joints resealed with backing rod and flexible exterior sealant.
• New-build mastic & snagging: New-build bathrooms, kitchens and frames resealed where the original sealant has cracked as the house settles.
• Floor & skirting joints: Skirting-to-floor gaps, tiled floor movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with the right product.
• Regrouting: Tired or mouldy grout raked out and renewed, and the internal corners finished in flexible silicone.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Leaking conservatory and rooflight joints, glass panels and shower screens resealed with silicone made for glass.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Exterior joints at gutters, fascias and soffits resealed to stop drips and staining down the wall.
• 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 Ewell

From a weatherboarded cottage to a busy college washroom, we bring the same care to every Ewell job. Mr Mastic has 20+ years in sealant work, is fully insured and holds ARBOMaster approved applicator status, and we use Arbo and Everbuild sealants throughout. More than 2,847 projects have earned us a 4.9-star Google rating from over 180 five-star reviews. Expect a clear quote up front and a one-year guarantee on what we do.

Around Ewell

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Ewell West station. Well-known places nearby include The Ashley Centre (1.6 miles south), Cockney Museum (0.8 miles north-east) and Chessington Castle Hill (1.6 miles west). Around the centre, our work takes us to homes, rentals and businesses close to St Clement's Catholic Primary School, Blenheim High School, Ewell Castle School and St Mary's Church. Green spaces within reach include Tolworth Court Farm Fields and The Lake.