Mastic man in Hove

Your local mastic man for Hove

Hove has some of the finest Regency and Victorian streets on the south coast, and a great many of its grand houses are now flats. That combination means a lot of bathrooms stacked one above another, a lot of tall sash and bay windows, and a lot of sealant that has to do a serious job. Mr Mastic covers Hove from our base in Crawley, resealing baths, showers and kitchens and renewing mastic around windows and doors.

In a building of flats, a tired seal is not just a cosmetic problem. Water that gets past a shower tray will find the ceiling below, and then it is everyone’s problem. We cut out the old bead completely, deal with any mould, dry the joint and reseal with a product suited to the job.

Stucco squares, gault-brick villas and the estates beyond

Brunswick Town, designed by Charles Busby, was built from 1824, with Brunswick Terrace and Brunswick Square now Grade I listed. Adelaide Crescent, begun in 1830 to a design by Decimus Burton and finished in the 1850s, joins Palmeira Square to the north; between them the two hold around 400 homes in 72 houses, nearly all of them flats. These are stuccoed buildings with tall windows, and the joints between frames, sills and render need a sealant that suits both, sometimes one that can be painted.

Further west and north, Victorian Hove takes over. Cliftonville dates from the mid-1850s, with angled bay windows and sashes. The Avenues were laid out from the 1870s, and William Willett built the pale gault-brick houses of the Willett Estate and the large villas around The Drive. Pembroke and Princes has big late Victorian and Edwardian houses with tile-hung fronts. Many of these, too, have been divided into flats, with bathrooms set on timber floors that move when a bath is filled.

Further out, Hangleton’s 16th-century flint manor house is now surrounded by a 20th-century estate, and in the newer homes here and in West Blatchington the jobs are more often replacement uPVC windows with hardened mastic and family bathrooms ready for a full reseal. Our bath resealing page explains how we handle each type.

Jobs we take on in Hove

• 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: 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: Messy, layered or wrong-product sealant cut out and replaced with the right sealant, laid the right way.
• Fire-rated sealant: Fire-rated and intumescent sealant around gaps, frames and service penetrations, to the product’s tested details.
• External & façade joints: Outside movement joints given new backing rod and a flexible, weatherproof sealant in a colour to match the wall.
• New-build mastic & snagging: Failed builder sealant in new homes put right, and plot mastic for developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Gaps under skirting boards, tile movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with a product that suits the traffic.
• Regrouting: Cracked, stained or crumbling grout raked out and replaced, with corners resealed in silicone.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Glass-to-frame joints on conservatories, rooflights and shower screens cut out and resealed.
• 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: Traditional burnt sand mastic renewed around sash and case windows and doors in stone and brick.

Why Mr Mastic in Hove

Hove is just down the A23 from our Crawley base, so it is very much part of our patch. On every visit you get a team with 20+ years’ experience who are fully insured and ARBOMaster approved, using Arbo and Everbuild sealants. We have more than 2,847 projects to our name and a 4.9-star rating on Google from over 180 five-star reviews. We set out a clear quote before work begins, and back the result with a one-year guarantee.

Landmarks near Hove

The nearest station to the town centre is Hove station. Local landmarks include Churchill Square (1.3 miles south-east) and British Engineerium (0.9 miles north). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around St Andrew's CofE (Aided) Primary School, Hove Park School, The Drive Prep School and Holy Trinity Church. Nearby green spaces include Whitehawk Hill and Thundersbarrow Hill.