Mastic man in Upminster

Your local mastic man for Upminster

Upminster sits at the eastern end of the London Borough of Havering, a suburb of well-kept detached and semi-detached houses where most people own their homes and want work done neatly. Mr Mastic covers Upminster from our base in Crawley, renewing sealant around baths, showers, basins and kitchens and replacing tired mastic around windows and doors.

Many of the bathrooms we see here are well fitted, so the sealant is often the first thing to let them down: a yellowed bead around the basin, mould in the corner of the shower or a gap where the bath meets the tiles. Our bathroom resealing service takes care of the whole room in one visit, so every joint matches.

From Essex village to garden suburb

Upminster changed from a village into a London suburb after 1900. In 1906 the developer Peter Griggs began laying out a garden suburb on land of the Upminster Hall estate, with large detached houses on Hall Lane and semis and smaller homes around them. Later phases followed, and the Gaynes Park estate was sold for building in 1929. Once District line trains began running regularly in 1932, building picked up again, and most of the old farms had been built over by 1938. Around Corbets Tey there was building in the 1930s and infilling in the 1950s, and in Cranham, to the east, plots were being sold for building as early as 1907.

That makes Upminster largely a place of Edwardian and 1930s family homes, most of them extended and modernised. In these houses we often find a smart new bathroom sealed with the wrong product, or a kitchen where the worktop joint has shrunk. Extensions and loft conversions add en-suites and shower rooms that need sealing too.

Because so many homes here are finished to a high standard, the colour of the sealant matters. We can match it to grey, cream or dark tiles; our colour-matched resealing page shows the options.

Our services in Upminster

• 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: 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: Second opinions on sealant that keeps failing: we strip it out, check for movement or leaks and reseal it properly.
• Fire-rated sealant: Intumescent and fire-rated joints around pipes, cables and frames, installed to the manufacturer’s tested specification.
• 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: Movement joints in tiled and concrete floors, and skirting gaps, sealed so they stay tidy and keep dirt out.
• 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: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Traditional burnt sand mastic renewed around sash and case windows and doors in stone and brick.

What you get with Mr Mastic in Upminster

In a house you’ve looked after for years, the sealant should be as tidy as everything else. Mr Mastic is fully insured, an ARBOMaster approved applicator and brings 20+ years’ experience to the job, using Arbo and Everbuild sealants. We’ve finished 2,847+ projects and have a 4.9-star Google rating from more than 180 five-star reviews. You’ll get a clear quote before anything starts, and a one-year guarantee once it’s done.

Around Upminster

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Upminster station. Well-known places nearby include The Mercury Mall (3.2 miles north-west) and Upminster Tithe Barn Museum of Nostalgia (0.5 miles north). Around the centre, our work takes us to homes, rentals and businesses close to Upminster Junior School, Eastbrook School, Church of St Laurence and The Crumpled Horn pub. For open space, Cranham Marsh is close by.