Mastic man in Ingatestone

Your local mastic man for Ingatestone

Ingatestone grew up along the old Roman road between London and Colchester, and for centuries the main road ran right through the village centre until the A12 bypass was built from 1958. Today it is a commuter village in Brentwood Borough with a station on the Great Eastern Main Line, joined with Fryerning as one parish and running on to Mountnessing. Mr Mastic covers Ingatestone from our base in Crawley.

The calls we get are mostly about bathrooms and kitchens: a shower seal that has gone black, a bath that has pulled away from the tiles, a worktop joint letting splashes in behind. Windows and doors come up often too. We take the old sealant out in full, deal with any mould and seal with a product suited to the job, so the result lasts rather than needing a redo next year.

Coaching-era High Street and twentieth-century growth

The High Street is the oldest part of the village and is protected by the Ingatestone High Street Conservation Area, a compact area with 36 listed buildings including the parish church of St Edmund and St Mary. The Star Inn dates back to the 15th century, and in the 18th century Ingatestone was a busy coaching stop. A second conservation area covers Station Lane, the listed station and the Ginge Petre almshouses and chapel. Ingatestone Hall, the Petre family’s Tudor house, is close by.

Around that old core, the village grew in the twentieth century as a commuter settlement, with family houses and later infill. Newer schemes have arrived too, such as Crown Mews on the site of the former Crown pub. The Petre almshouses on Stock Lane, built in the 16th century, are now private cottages, a reminder of how many of the village’s homes have long histories.

Historic buildings on the High Street tend to have irregular walls and timber elements that move, so sealant needs to stay flexible and be neatly finished. In the commuter-era houses, bathrooms have usually been refitted, and we often remove more than one generation of old silicone. Our silicone removal page explains how we do it without scratching baths or trays.

Our services in Ingatestone

• 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: Cracked or shrunken mastic around window and door frames, sills and patio doors replaced with a weatherproof sealant.
• 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: Early-failing sealant in new homes fixed properly, plus mastic packages and snagging 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: Crumbling grout in showers and wet areas raked out and refilled, so water stays out of the wall behind.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Glazing joints on conservatories, roof lanterns and screens renewed with a sealant suited to glass and frames.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Old sand mastic around sash windows and doors raked out and renewed with traditional burnt sand mastic.

What you get with Mr Mastic in Ingatestone

Ingatestone is a straightforward trip up the A12 for us. You get more than 20 years of practical experience, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved applicator status, with Arbo and Everbuild sealants used on every job. We have completed over 2,847 projects and earned a 4.9-star Google rating from 180+ five-star reviews. The quote is clear before we lift a tool, and the finished work comes with a one-year guarantee.

Landmarks near Ingatestone

For trains, Ingatestone station is closest to the centre. Around the centre, our work takes us to homes, rentals and businesses close to Ingatestone Infant School, Anglo European School, Church of St Edmund and St Mary and The Bell Inn. For open space, Norsey Wood is close by.