Mastic man in Tring

Your local mastic man for Tring

Tring is a compact market town in the north-west of Dacorum, sitting in the Tring Gap surrounded by the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its centre has been a conservation area since 6 October 1969, and a large share of its houses are Victorian or older. That means sash windows, brick and clay tile, chimney breasts in odd places and bathrooms fitted into rooms built for something else.

Mr Mastic covers Tring and the surrounding villages from our base in Crawley. We reseal baths, showers and kitchens, renew mastic around timber and uPVC windows and doors, and seal external joints where frames meet brick or render. On period houses we take extra care over the finish, because a wide, smeared bead of white silicone can spoil a frontage that has been looked after for a century.

Huckvale brick, sash terraces and Victorian villas

Dacorum’s appraisal splits the conservation area in two. The eastern half is the historic core around the High Street and Akeman Street, with town houses, old coaching inns and workers’ cottages from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The western half is mainly mid to late Victorian, with rows of two-storey terraced houses on King Street, Chapel Street, Queen Street and Henry Street, many with double-hung sliding sashes, and larger villas on Park Road and Western Road.

Around 1900, the Rothschild estate and its architect William Huckvale shaped much of the town, with red brick, timber framing, tile-hanging and steep roofs. Louisa Cottages on Park Road are one example. Their casement windows, often with leaded lights, sit in brickwork that has moved over more than a century, and the joints around them need a sealant that stays flexible.

The appraisal also lists replacement uPVC windows as a negative feature, so many owners keep and repair their timber frames. Where you do have uPVC, the mastic round it is often the first thing to fail. Our window mastic guide explains the difference between the two jobs. Beyond the old town, there are post-war and later family homes, and around 250 new homes are proposed at Dunsley Farm.

Sealant services across Tring

• 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: Commercial washrooms, kitchens and wet areas resealed floor by floor, so only a few rooms are out of use at once.
• 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 sealant for service penetrations and frame gaps where it has been specified, applied to the tested details.
• External & façade joints: Brickwork movement joints, render and cladding joints resealed with backing rod and flexible exterior sealant.
• New-build mastic & snagging: Snagging sealant for new homes and plot-by-plot mastic for builders and developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Skirting-to-floor gaps, tiled floor movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with the right product.
• Regrouting: Shower and splashback grout replaced where it has cracked or stained, with silicone in the movement joints.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Conservatory, rooflight, glass panel and shower screen joints resealed with glazing silicone.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Sash and case window surrounds in stone and brick re-pointed with traditional sand mastic.

Choosing a mastic man in Tring

Period homes in Tring deserve a tradesperson who takes their time over a joint you’ll look at every day. Mr Mastic offers more than two decades of experience, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved applicator status, and we work with Arbo and Everbuild sealants. With 2,847+ projects complete and a 4.9-star Google rating from 180+ five-star reviews, we’re confident in the result. A clear quote comes first, and every job is backed by a one-year guarantee.

Places we pass in Tring

For trains, Tring station is closest to the centre. Local landmarks include Pitstone Green Museum (2.6 miles north) and Hawridge Court (4 miles south-east). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around Bishop Wood Church of England Junior School, Tring School, Church of St Peter St Paul (church of England) and The Black Horse pub. Green spaces within reach include College Lake nature reserve and Pavis Wood.