Mastic man in Hastings

Your local mastic man for Hastings

Hastings is a town of hills, old timber and sea wind, and its sealant works hard. If you need a mastic man in Hastings or St Leonards-on-Sea, Mr Mastic covers the whole area from our base in Crawley. We reseal baths, showers, sinks and kitchen worktops, renew mastic around windows and doors, and seal joints on walls, sills and frames where rain has started to find a way in.

On every visit, the failed sealant is removed in full and the joint is cleaned, treated for mould and dried. Only then do we lay the new bead. Covering old silicone with new is a common shortcut, and it never holds, so it is something we simply do not do. You will know the price before we start and what to expect afterwards.

From the Old Town to Burton’s St Leonards

The Old Town sits in a narrow valley between the East Hill and West Hill, below the castle ruins. Its older houses and cottages lean, settle and move, and bathrooms squeezed into them are often on timber floors that flex underfoot. A stiff bead of sealant soon tears in those conditions, so we use a flexible sanitary silicone and fill the bath before sealing so the bead is laid with the bath at its heaviest. Down on the Stade, the tall black timber net shops are a reminder of how much weather this end of town takes.

To the west, St Leonards-on-Sea was laid out in the early nineteenth century by the builder James Burton and his son Decimus Burton as a new town for well-off visitors, and Pelham Crescent was built below the castle cliffs after the Napoleonic Wars. Many of these stuccoed terraces and villas are now flats, with sash and bay windows that rely on mastic between frame and render. Our window mastic guide explains why that joint fails and how we renew it.

The town also has twentieth-century landmarks such as Marine Court, the 1938 Art Deco block on the St Leonards seafront, and suburbs like Ore, Hollington and Silverhill that were once separate villages. Their later housing brings the usual mix of ageing uPVC frames, refitted bathrooms and kitchens with tired sealant round the sink.

Sealant services across Hastings

• 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: Guest bathrooms, staff washrooms and kitchens in commercial buildings resealed in a planned order that keeps the site running.
• 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 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: Snagging sealant for new homes and plot-by-plot mastic for builders and developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Gaps under skirting boards, tile movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with a product that suits the traffic.
• 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: Dripping gutter joints and end caps, and gaps at fascias and soffits, sealed with weatherproof exterior sealant.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Old sand mastic around sash windows and doors raked out and renewed with traditional burnt sand mastic.

Why choose Mr Mastic in Hastings

Older, weather-exposed buildings punish poor workmanship, which is why we take our time on preparation. Behind every Hastings job is a firm with over two decades of experience, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved applicator status. We seal with Arbo and Everbuild products, have completed more than 2,847 projects and hold a 4.9-star rating on Google from over 180 five-star reviews. You get a clear quote up front, and a one-year guarantee covers the finished work.

Around Hastings

From the centre, the nearest railway station is St Leonards Warrior Square station. Local landmarks include Priory Meadow Shopping Centre (1.1 miles south-east), The True Crime Museum (1.1 miles south-east) and Hastings Castle (1.3 miles south-east). Closer in, we work on homes, rented flats and businesses near St Paul's Church of England Academy, William Parker Sports College, University School and St Luke's Church. For open space, Church Wood and Robsack Wood and Senlac Hill are close by.