Mastic man in Staplehurst

Sealant jobs we do in Staplehurst

Staplehurst is a large Wealden village about nine miles south of Maidstone, with around 6,000 people in some 2,600 households. Much of it is family housing, and a lot of those homes have bathrooms and kitchens that have been in use for twenty or thirty years. Mr Mastic covers the village from our base in Crawley, renewing tired sealant around baths, showers, basins and worktops, and replacing mastic on windows and doors that has cracked or come away.

A reseal is a small job, but it is easy to do badly. Sealant put on over the top of old silicone never bonds, and a bead laid on a damp or dusty joint will lift within weeks. We take the old material out, clean and dry the joint properly, and lay one neat, continuous bead. Our article on how long silicone sealant lasts explains what to expect afterwards.

Old village houses and decades of steady growth

The village grew from scattered hamlets and farmsteads around local manors that gradually joined up along the old Roman road, now the A229. Its historic buildings include All Saints’ Church, a Grade I listed 12th-century church on the highest point of the village, Loddenden Manor in the centre, which dates from the 16th century, and the 18th-century King’s Head. The parish also takes in the hamlet of Hawkenbury.

Around that older core, Staplehurst has grown steadily. The population rose enough in the 1980s for the primary school to move to a new site on Gybbon Rise, and more homes have followed since. That gives the village a wide spread of housing: older cottages and houses near the church and the A229, later 20th-century estates of semis and detached homes, and newer houses built in the last few years.

Each brings different jobs. In older cottages, walls and floors are rarely square, so a bath may sit against a wall that bows, leaving a gap that varies along its length. In 1970s and 1980s houses, we often find original or second-generation bathrooms with sealant that has shrunk and gone hard. In newer homes, the builder’s sealant can crack in the first year or two as the house settles.

Our services in Staplehurst

• 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: 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: 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: Floor and skirting joints in homes, shops and warehouses sealed neatly and to the right depth.
• Regrouting: Tired or mouldy grout raked out and renewed, and the internal corners finished in flexible silicone.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Glazing joints on conservatories, roof lanterns and screens renewed with a sealant suited to glass and frames.
• 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 burnt sand mastic renewed around sash and case windows and doors in stone and brick.

Choosing a mastic man in Staplehurst

Staplehurst is in our regular Kent area, an easy run across from Crawley. Every job is done by people with more than 20 years in the trade, fully insured and ARBOMaster approved, using Arbo and Everbuild sealants rather than whatever was cheapest at the merchant. We have 2,847+ projects behind us and a 4.9-star Google rating from 180+ five-star reviews. You will know the price from a clear quote before we start, and the work is covered by a one-year guarantee.

Getting around Staplehurst

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Staplehurst station. Well-known places nearby include Brattle Farm Museum (1 mile south-west) and Sissinghurst Castle (3.7 miles south). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around Staplehurst School, All Saints Church and The Railway Tavern.