Mastic man in Sawbridgeworth

Mastic and sealant work in Sawbridgeworth

Sawbridgeworth packs a remarkable amount of old building into a small town. The parish has around 159 listed buildings, many of them from 1700 or earlier, sitting alongside converted maltings, Victorian streets and later family housing. Mr Mastic covers the town and the hamlets around it from our base in Crawley, looking after bathroom, kitchen and window sealant in all of them.

Whatever the age of the building, a good seal depends on getting the old one out. We cut and scrape away the failed bead, treat any mould, clean the surfaces and let the joint dry before applying new sealant. Mould that keeps coming back is nearly always a preparation problem, and our guide to why sealant goes mouldy explains what to look for.

Bell Street, Knight Street and the maltings

Much of the town centre has been a conservation area since 1968. Around Bell Street, Knight Street, the Square and Fair Green you’ll see a mix of timber-framed and plastered houses, brick fronts and some weatherboarding, with buildings ranging from the sixteenth-century Market House to the eighteenth-century Red House. In houses like these, nothing is quite square. Walls bow, floors slope and frames have moved over centuries, so a sealant joint has to cope with uneven gaps and continuing movement.

Malting along the Stort Navigation was the town’s main trade from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, and several of the big maltings buildings have since been turned into apartments or small business space. On the Essex side of the river, the Lawrence Moorings flats stand on the site of the old Walter Lawrence joinery works. Conversions like these often have bathrooms fitted into odd corners, against solid old walls or on new timber floors.

Around the old core, twentieth-century housing spread out, including the homes on Pishiobury Drive on part of the Pishiobury estate. Here the jobs are more familiar: tired bath and shower seals, kitchen worktop joints and replacement uPVC windows whose mastic has had its day.

What we do in Sawbridgeworth

• Bathroom & kitchen resealing: Every joint in the bathroom and kitchen, from the bath edge to the worktop, stripped back and resealed with anti-fungal silicone.
• 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: Messy, layered or wrong-product sealant cut out and replaced with the right sealant, laid the right way.
• Fire-rated sealant: Gaps in fire-separating walls and floors sealed with fire-rated products, following the tested details for each one.
• External & façade joints: Brickwork movement joints, render and cladding joints resealed with backing rod and flexible exterior sealant.
• New-build mastic & snagging: Early-failing sealant in new homes fixed properly, plus mastic packages and snagging for developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Movement joints in tiled and concrete floors, and skirting gaps, sealed so they stay tidy and keep dirt out.
• Regrouting: Crumbling grout in showers and wet areas raked out and refilled, so water stays out of the wall behind.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Glass-to-frame joints on conservatories, rooflights and shower screens cut out and resealed.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Leaking gutter joints, end caps, fascia and soffit joints resealed with exterior sealant.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Traditional burnt sand mastic renewed around sash and case windows and doors in stone and brick.

Choosing a mastic man in Sawbridgeworth

We bring the same care to a Bell Street cottage as to a modern flat. Behind Mr Mastic are 20+ years of sealant work, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved applicator status, and we use Arbo and Everbuild products. We’ve completed 2,847+ projects, and our customers have given us a 4.9-star Google rating with more than 180 five-star reviews. You’ll know where you stand from a clear quote before we start, and your job comes with our one-year guarantee.

Places we pass in Sawbridgeworth

For trains, Sawbridgeworth station is closest to the centre. Well-known places nearby include Mark Hall Cycle Museum (2.4 miles south-west) and Harlow Mill (1.6 miles south-west). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around Fawbert and Barnard Infants' School, Leventhorpe, Sawbridgeworth Congregational Church and White Lion Hotel. For open space, Sawbridgeworth Marsh and Portingbury Hills are close by.