Mastic man in Potters Bar

Resealing and mastic work across Potters Bar

Potters Bar grew up around its railway station and boomed in the 1930s, and a great many of its homes date from that decade. Houses of that age have usually had their bathrooms, kitchens and windows replaced at least once, and the sealant from those refits is now reaching the end of its life. Mr Mastic covers Potters Bar from our base in Crawley, just round the M25.

We reseal baths, showers, basins and worktops, and cut out and replace tired mastic around windows and doors. We never put new silicone over old. The old bead is removed, the joint is cleaned and dried, and a fresh, suitable sealant goes on. Our guide to what affects the cost of a mastic man explains what goes into a quote.

Railway village, 1930s suburb and post-war estates

Potters Bar was a small, mainly farming settlement until the Great Northern Railway opened a station in 1850. Suburban building peaked in the 1930s, when the population roughly tripled, and two large council estates followed in the 1950s. The town was in Middlesex until 1965, when it moved to Hertfordshire, and it has been part of Hertsmere since 1974. Today the main residential areas include Oakmere, Furzefield, Little Heath and Bentley Heath.

Earlier still, the Potters Bar Garden Estate west of Darkes Lane was laid out from around 1903, with detached houses on spacious plots along Heath Drive, The Avenue, Manor Way and Mountway, many with rendered walls and hipped tiled roofs. It is now the Darkes Lane (West) conservation area. The Royds, around Baker Street, is a second conservation area.

For sealant, 1930s semis and the garden-estate houses often have replacement windows set into rendered openings, where old mastic cracks away from the render. Post-war houses and maisonettes tend to have small bathrooms with heavy daily use, and their bath and shower seals go mouldy quickly. In recent flats and infill houses, builder sealant is often the first thing to fail.

Sealant services across Potters Bar

• Bathroom & kitchen resealing: Mouldy or split sealant around baths, shower trays, basins and sinks removed completely and replaced with a neat, hygienic bead.
• Window & door mastic: Hardened, gappy mastic around frames, sills and French or patio doors cut out and renewed to keep draughts and rain out.
• Commercial & hotel sealant: Hotels, offices, washrooms and welfare areas resealed room by room, with out-of-hours working possible to arrange.
• Remedial sealant & repairs: Leaks and lifting beads from earlier sealant jobs put right, starting with finding out why they failed.
• Fire-rated sealant: Intumescent and fire-rated joints around pipes, cables and frames, installed to the manufacturer’s tested specification.
• 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: Early-failing sealant in new homes fixed properly, plus mastic packages and snagging for developers.
• 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: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Traditional sand mastic for period windows and doors where a modern sealant would look out of place.

Choosing a mastic man in Potters Bar

Potters Bar is an easy drive round the M25 from our Crawley base, and you get the same thorough work we are known for at home. We have over 20 years in the trade, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved applicator status, and we use Arbo and Everbuild sealants. There are 2,847+ projects behind us and a 4.9-star Google rating from 180+ five-star reviews. We start with a clear quote and finish with a one-year guarantee on the work.

Around Potters Bar

The nearest station to the town centre is Potters Bar station. Local landmarks include Spires Shopping Centre (3 miles south) and Potters Bar Museum (less than half a mile west). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School, Mount Grace School, St. Mary's Church and The White Horse Public House. For open space, Furzefield Wood and Lower Halfpenny is close by.