Mastic man in Bagshot

Mastic and sealant work in Bagshot

For centuries Bagshot was a stopping place on the road from London to the West Country, and the High Street still has the inns and houses that grew up around that trade. Today the village sits between the A30 and junction 3 of the M3, in Surrey Heath, and shares the parish of Windlesham with Windlesham itself and Lightwater. Mr Mastic covers Bagshot from our base in Crawley, resealing bathrooms and kitchens and replacing failed mastic around windows and doors.

Whether the house is two hundred years old or twenty, the method is the same. We take out all of the existing sealant, clean and treat the joint, check it is dry, and choose the right product for where it is going: anti-fungal sanitary silicone in a shower, a low-modulus exterior sealant around a frame. That is the difference between a seal that lasts years and one that fails by spring.

Coaching inns, Victorian villas and post-war streets

The heart of the village is the Bagshot Village Conservation Area, which takes in the High Street, The Square, part of Bridge Road and a short stretch of Guildford Road up to the railway viaduct. Surrey Heath Council’s appraisal describes mainly two-storey buildings in red brick and clay tile, some with timber frames from the sixteenth century hidden behind later fronts, Georgian and Victorian houses, and nine listed buildings, many of them former coaching inns. It also notes that many original sash windows have been swapped for uPVC, while a few early nineteenth-century cottages on Guildford Road keep their sashes.

A second conservation area covers Church Road, where St Anne’s Church of 1884 stands among small polychrome brick villas, an eighteenth-century cottage and The Mill, a nineteenth-century water mill being converted into flats. Around these older streets are the post-war and later houses that make up most of Bagshot’s homes.

Old buildings move. Timber frames and soft brick shift with the seasons, so rigid fillers crack and hard old mastic lets damp in. Around period windows we use flexible sealants that can take that movement, and in older bathrooms we allow for walls and floors that are rarely square.

Jobs we take on in Bagshot

• 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: 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: 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: New-build bathrooms, kitchens and frames resealed where the original sealant has cracked as the house settles.
• 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: Conservatory, rooflight, glass panel and shower screen joints resealed with glazing silicone.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Exterior joints at gutters, fascias and soffits resealed to stop drips and staining down the wall.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Sash and case window surrounds in stone and brick re-pointed with traditional sand mastic.

Why Mr Mastic in Bagshot

We bring the same standards to Bagshot that we keep at home in Crawley. That means two decades and more of sealant work, full insurance, and recognition as an ARBOMaster approved applicator. Arbo and Everbuild are the only sealants we use. Over 2,847 completed projects sit behind a 4.9-star Google rating from more than 180 five-star reviews. Nothing starts until you have a clear quote, and every job is backed by a one-year guarantee.

Places we pass in Bagshot

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Bagshot station. Places most people will know nearby are Surrey Heath Museum (2.6 miles south-west). Closer in, we work on homes, rented flats and businesses near Bagshot Infant School, Collingwood College, The Brook Church and Kings Arms. Nearby green spaces include Wildmoor Heath.