Mastic man in Hedge End

Your local mastic man for Hedge End

Hedge End had roughly 1,000 residents in the 1950s and more than 20,000 by 2011, so most of its homes are relatively young. That means one thing for sealant: a great many bathrooms and kitchens fitted in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s are now due for attention. Mr Mastic covers Hedge End from our base in Crawley, along with neighbouring Botley and West End.

We reseal baths, showers, basins and kitchen worktops, renew mastic around windows and patio doors, and put right external joints. Old sealant always comes out in full first, because new silicone will not bond to old. If you are thinking of doing it yourself, our guide to how long silicone sealant lasts will help you judge whether yours needs replacing.

Motorway-era growth and newer estates

The original hamlet grew up on Botley Common, and for a long time Hedge End stayed small, with strawberry growing as a local trade. It became a civil parish in 1894 and a town in 1992. The big change came in the last two decades of the twentieth century, when the M27 brought rapid expansion: office parks, out-of-town superstores and new residential areas. Cranbourne Park and the Kings Copse area belong to that wave, and Grange Park, north and east of the old village centre, is the most recent major development, with houses on the former Dowd’s Farm site.

Homes of the 1980s and 1990s now have tired sealant almost everywhere: acrylic baths with split beads, shower trays that have settled, and uPVC windows and patio doors whose mastic has shrunk after decades of sun. Newer Grange Park houses can show the opposite problem, with builder sealant cracking in the first year or two as the structure settles.

The town also has some older property, around St John’s Road and the old Shamblehurst manor area, where bathrooms have usually been refitted several times and layers of sealant need careful removal.

Sealant services across Hedge End

• 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: Hotels, offices, washrooms and welfare areas resealed room by room, with out-of-hours working possible to arrange.
• Remedial sealant & repairs: Leaks and lifting beads from earlier sealant jobs put right, starting with finding out why they failed.
• 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: Brickwork movement joints, render and cladding joints resealed with backing rod and flexible exterior sealant.
• New-build mastic & snagging: Failed builder sealant in new homes put right, and plot mastic for developers.
• 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: Glazing joints on conservatories, roof lanterns and screens renewed with a sealant suited to glass and frames.
• 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: Traditional sand mastic for period windows and doors where a modern sealant would look out of place.

What you get with Mr Mastic in Hedge End

Hedge End sits just off the M27, which makes it an easy run for us from Crawley. You get a firm with more than twenty years in sealant work, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved applicator status, using Arbo and Everbuild products. We have more than 2,847 projects to our name and a 4.9-star rating on Google built on 180+ five-star reviews. You’ll know the cost from a clear quote before we begin, and a one-year guarantee covers the job afterwards.

Places we pass in Hedge End

The nearest station to the town centre is Hedge End station. Places most people will know nearby are Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum (2 miles south) and Netley Castle (3.6 miles south-west). Closer in, we work on homes, rented flats and businesses near Shamblehurst Primary School, Wildern School, Wildern School and Church of St John the Evangelist. Nearby green spaces include Netley Common.