Mastic man in Basildon

Your local mastic man for Basildon

Basildon is a town of planned neighbourhoods, and most of its homes are now old enough to have had a bathroom or kitchen refitted at least once. That usually means sealant laid by different hands over the years, some of it sound and some of it hiding mould or a slow leak. Mr Mastic covers the whole of Basildon from our base in Crawley, resealing baths, showers, basins and kitchens, and replacing tired mastic around windows and doors.

Every job starts the same way: the old sealant comes out completely, the joint is cleaned, dried and checked, and only then does a new bead go on. Black spots that come back within months are often a sign of mould left behind the old bead rather than a fault in the new one, and our guide on why sealant goes mouldy explains what causes it and how we stop it returning.

Plotlands, new town estates and Basil Spence’s tower

Basildon was designated a new town on 4 January 1949, absorbing the older villages of Laindon, Pitsea and Vange, and the first new town house was finished in June 1951. Before that, much of the area was plotland, with homes built in the 1920s and 1930s on little or no infrastructure. The development corporation then laid out the town as a set of planned communities: Barstable, Fryerns, Kingswood, Lee Chapel North and South, Langdon Hills, Craylands, Felmores and the Pitsea districts of Chalvedon, Eversley and Northlands among them.

Those estates are dominated by post-war terraces, maisonettes and low-rise flats. Bathrooms in them have often been refitted with acrylic baths that flex when filled, so the joint along the wall opens up and needs a sealant that can move with it. Many homes also have replacement uPVC windows from the 1980s and 1990s, and the mastic around those frames is now hard, cracked or shrinking back from the brick.

The town centre has Brooke House, the 14-storey tower from 1962 designed by Sir Basil Spence’s practice and raised on V-shaped concrete supports; it has been Grade II listed since 1998. Noak Bridge, a later village-style development, was made a conservation area in 1996, and parts of Craylands are being rebuilt as Beechwood Village, adding newer homes whose builder sealant often needs attention in the first year or two.

Jobs we take on in Basildon

• Bathroom & kitchen resealing: Mouldy or split sealant around baths, shower trays, basins and sinks removed completely and replaced with a neat, hygienic bead.
• Window & door mastic: Window and door mastic that has dried out in the sun replaced with a weather-resistant joint that can move with the frame.
• Commercial & hotel sealant: Hotels, offices, washrooms and welfare areas resealed room by room, with out-of-hours working possible to arrange.
• 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: 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: Gaps under skirting boards, tile movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with a product that suits the traffic.
• Regrouting: Cracked, stained or crumbling grout raked out and replaced, with corners resealed in silicone.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Leaking conservatory and rooflight joints, glass panels and shower screens resealed with silicone made for glass.
• 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.

What you get with Mr Mastic in Basildon

Basildon homeowners and landlords get the same care we give in our home town of Crawley. We have been sealing baths, showers, kitchens and windows for more than 20 years, we are fully insured, and we are an ARBOMaster approved applicator working with Arbo and Everbuild products. Over 2,847 projects sit behind us, along with a 4.9-star Google rating built on 180+ five-star reviews. You’ll know the cost from a clear quote before any work starts, and every job carries our one-year guarantee.

Places we pass in Basildon

From the centre, the nearest railway station is Basildon station. Well-known places nearby include Eastgate Shopping Centre (less than half a mile south) and The Motor Boat Museum (1.1 miles south-east). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around Ghyllgrove Primary School, Woodlands School, Fryerns Comprehensive School and St Martin of Tours. Nearby green spaces include Vange Marsh RSPB nature reserve.