Mastic man in Grays

Your local mastic man for Grays

Grays is Thurrock’s main town, and its homes cover more than a century of building: Victorian terraces, interwar council houses, 1960s and 1970s town-centre blocks and the large estates of Chafford Hundred. Mr Mastic covers Grays from our Crawley base, resealing baths, showers and kitchens and replacing worn mastic around windows and doors, inside and out.

We often find a bath that has dropped slightly and opened up the seal along the wall, or a kitchen worktop joint that has blackened with mould. Either way the job is the same: take out all of the old sealant, clean and dry the joint, and lay a new bead in the right product. Our bath resealing page shows how we fill the bath first so the seal doesn’t tear when it’s used.

Terraces, council estates and a new town on a quarry

Grays grew quickly once the railway arrived in 1854, and with the chalk pits, brickworks and nearby Tilbury Docks needing workers. Most of the houses built between 1876 and 1914 were terraced artisans’ cottages, of which Clarence Road is a typical example. After the First World War the council built more than 500 houses on the Grays Hall estate north of Orsett Road, while private builders added the Lodge estate. From 1952 the council developed Stifford Clays into a large estate, and the town centre was largely rebuilt between 1965 and the early 1970s with towers, blocks and pink-brick terraces.

Chafford Hundred came next. Building began in 1988 on land that was mostly old chalk quarry, and around 5,600 houses and flats now stand there, from family homes to housing association and retirement properties.

In the older terraces, bathrooms are often small rear extensions with several refits behind them, so we regularly find old sealant layered over older sealant. In homes from the 1990s and later, the first set of builder’s sealant is usually due for replacement, especially in busy family showers. Our post on new-build sealant snagging explains what tends to go wrong.

What we do in Grays

• 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: 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: 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: Early-failing sealant in new homes fixed properly, plus mastic packages and snagging for developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Skirting-to-floor gaps, tiled floor movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with the right product.
• 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: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Old sand mastic around sash windows and doors raked out and renewed with traditional burnt sand mastic.

Why Mr Mastic in Grays

Whether it’s a terrace off Orsett Road or a Chafford Hundred townhouse, you want the job done once and done right. Mr Mastic is an ARBOMaster approved applicator with 20+ years in the trade and full insurance, and we use Arbo and Everbuild sealants. Our 2,847+ completed projects and 4.9-star Google rating from more than 180 five-star reviews speak for the work. We agree a clear quote with you first and guarantee every job for one year.

Around Grays

The nearest station to the town centre is Grays station. Places most people will know nearby are Lakeside Shopping Centre (2.1 miles west), Thameside Centre (less than half a mile south-west) and Stone Castle (3.6 miles south-west). Closer in, we work on homes, rented flats and businesses near Quarry Hill Academy, Grays Convent High School, Thurrock and Basildon College and St John the Evangelist. Nearby green spaces include Chafford Gorges Nature Park and Sawyers Lake.