Mastic man in Newbury

Sealant jobs we do in Newbury

Newbury is an old market town that has kept its shape. The centre still gathers around a large market square, with listed buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Kennet and Avon Canal runs straight through the middle. Around that core are suburbs such as Wash Common, Speenhamland, West Fields and East Fields, with Speen, Shaw, Donnington and Greenham on the edges. Mr Mastic covers all of it from our base in Crawley.

We take on bathroom, kitchen, window and door sealing, and external joints on homes and commercial buildings. We never patch: the old bead is removed, the joint is cleaned and dried, and fresh sealant is laid to suit the surfaces and the movement. If you’re weighing up whether to call someone in, our guide to choosing a mastic man covers the questions to ask.

A market town with canal-side streets and growing edges

The oldest buildings are in the centre, where the medieval Cloth Hall, a half-timbered granary and St Nicolas Church stand among listed houses and shops. Older brick and timber move more than modern walls, so around their frames we choose a flexible sealant that suits the material, and a paintable one where the joint will be painted. Many of these buildings have flats over shops, with bathrooms fitted into rooms that were never designed for them.

Further out, the suburbs are mainly family houses, along with socially rented homes; in the 2011 Census, more than a third of the town’s households rented, socially or privately. Bathrooms and kitchens in these homes have often been replaced at least once, and we regularly find layers of old sealant, shrunken worktop joints and hardened uPVC window mastic.

The town is also growing. Beside the racecourse, the first new apartment blocks were completed in 2015, and more housing has been built towards Greenham. In homes this new, the sealant often cracks as the building settles in. Our shower resealing page explains how we put that right.

Sealant services across Newbury

• 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: Sealant programmes for offices, hotels, care settings and schools, with early or late working where it helps.
• 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: New-build bathrooms, kitchens and frames resealed where the original sealant has cracked as the house settles.
• Floor & skirting joints: Gaps under skirting boards, tile movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with a product that suits the traffic.
• 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: Leaking gutter joints, end caps, fascia and soffit joints resealed with 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.

Choosing a mastic man in Newbury

Newbury is one of the further points of our patch from Crawley, so we plan each visit to finish the job in one go wherever we can. You’ll be dealing with a firm that has 20+ years in sealant work, full insurance and ARBOMaster approved status, using Arbo and Everbuild products. There are 2,847+ completed projects behind us, along with a 4.9-star Google rating from over 180 five-star reviews. A clear quote comes before any work, and a one-year guarantee comes after.

Getting around Newbury

The nearest station to the town centre is Newbury station. Places most people will know nearby are British Balloon Museum & Library Ltd (less than half a mile north) and Donnington Castle (1.6 miles north-west). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around St Nicolas C.E. Junior School, St Bartholomew's School, St Bartholomew's School and St Nicolas Church. Green spaces within reach include Audrey's Meadow.