Mastic man in Hartley

Sealant jobs we do in Hartley

Hartley is a village in the Sevenoaks district, about seven miles from both Gravesend and Dartford, with a DA3 Longfield postcode. Most of its five thousand or so residents live in homes built over the last hundred years, many of them bungalows and detached houses on good-sized plots. Mr Mastic covers Hartley from our base in Crawley, and we reseal baths, showers, kitchens and basins and replace the mastic around windows, doors and conservatories.

The nearest station is Longfield, and the Arriva 489 bus links the village with Gravesend, so many residents commute. Our approach is simple: the old sealant comes out completely, the joint is cleaned, treated and dried, and a new bead goes on that suits the job. If your bath seal keeps splitting in the same place, it’s usually because the joint has never been properly prepared. Our bath resealing page explains how we do it.

A farming parish turned commuter village

For centuries Hartley was a small farming parish; in 1872 it had just 47 houses. The opening of Longfield station that same year started the change to a commuter village. Shortly before the First World War, a developer bought two agricultural estates and sold the land in small plots for houses and bungalows, and that pattern of individual homes on their own plots still shapes much of the village. Many of those early houses have since been extended, rebuilt or replaced, so a single road can have homes from several decades side by side.

Larger developments followed nearby: New Ash Green in the 1960s and Wellfield in the 1970s. Homes from that era are now on their second or third kitchen and bathroom, and we often find old silicone laid over older silicone, uPVC windows whose mastic has gone hard and grey, and conservatory joints where the original sealant has shrunk away from the brick.

Older buildings survive too. The parish church of All Saints dates from the early twelfth century, and the Roman Catholic church of St Francis de Sales is a converted seventeenth-century barn.

Jobs we take on in Hartley

• Bathroom & kitchen resealing: Baths, showers, basins, wet rooms, worktops and sinks: old sealant cut out, mould treated and a new bead of anti-fungal silicone laid.
• 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: 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 sealant for service penetrations and frame gaps where it has been specified, applied to the tested details.
• External & façade joints: Expansion joints in brick, render and cladding cut out and renewed at the right depth so they can move without splitting.
• 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: Shower and splashback grout replaced where it has cracked or stained, with silicone in the movement joints.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Conservatory, rooflight, glass panel and shower screen joints resealed with glazing silicone.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Dripping gutter joints and end caps, and gaps at fascias and soffits, sealed with weatherproof exterior sealant.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Traditional sand mastic for period windows and doors where a modern sealant would look out of place.

What you get with Mr Mastic in Hartley

Hartley is within easy reach for us from Crawley, round the M25. When we arrive you get a fully insured ARBOMaster approved applicator with over 20 years of sealant work behind them, using Arbo and Everbuild products. We’ve now completed more than 2,847 projects, and our Google rating stands at 4.9 stars from 180+ five-star reviews. Nothing starts until you’re happy with a clear quote, and the finished work comes with a one-year guarantee.

Places we pass in Hartley

For trains, Longfield station is closest to the centre. Local landmarks include Bluewater (4 miles north-west) and Stone Castle (4.1 miles north). Closer in, we work on homes, rented flats and businesses near Hartley Primary Academy, Longfield Academy, Church of Saint Mary and Railway Tavern. Nearby green spaces include Sawyers Lake.