Mastic man in South Ockendon

Sealant jobs we do in South Ockendon

South Ockendon sits just outside the M25 on the Thurrock side of the London border, and its homes tell the story of a village that grew very quickly after the war. That mix means very different sealant jobs from one street to the next: a refitted bathroom in a concrete terrace, a cracked shower tray in a newer house on the old Ford land, or tired mastic round the windows of an older cottage near the green. Mr Mastic covers the whole town from our base in Crawley.

We reseal baths, showers, basins and kitchen worktops, and we cut out and renew the mastic around windows and doors. The method never changes. Old sealant is removed completely, mould is treated, the joint is cleaned and left dry, and a fresh bead of a product chosen for that joint goes in. If black spots keep coming back in your bathroom, our anti-mould resealing page explains how we deal with it properly rather than covering it up.

From prefabs to the Flowers Estate and the old Ford site

The old village gathers round its green, where North, South and West Roads meet beside the Norman church of St Nicholas and the Royal Oak, a tavern with a 14th-century core. In the late 1940s South Ockendon became a site for prefabricated houses for families bombed out of East London. Most of those prefabs came down in the late 1960s and were replaced by the Greater London Council’s Flowers Estate, built with Lecaplan concrete homes. Its Type B terraces run in rows of eight.

Concrete system-built houses bring particular sealant work. The joints between panels, and between panels and window frames, rely on mastic to keep the weather out, and decades of movement and sun leave that mastic hard and split. Inside, many of these homes have had their bathrooms refitted more than once, and we often find old beads layered on top of each other with mould trapped underneath.

Later housing has filled in around the older streets. Brandon Groves was built on the site of the former South Ockendon Hospital, which closed in 1994, and new estates on former Ford land in the Belhus ward carry street names taken from Ford vehicles. In those newer homes, builder sealant around showers and baths often fails within the first couple of years as the house settles.

What we do in South Ockendon

• 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: Hardened, gappy mastic around frames, sills and French or patio doors cut out and renewed to keep draughts and rain out.
• 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: Fire-rated sealant for service penetrations and frame gaps where it has been specified, applied to the tested details.
• External & façade joints: Brickwork movement joints, render and cladding joints resealed with backing rod and flexible exterior sealant.
• 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: Crumbling grout in showers and wet areas raked out and refilled, so water stays out of the wall behind.
• Glazing & conservatory sealant: Glass-to-frame joints on conservatories, rooflights and shower screens cut out and resealed.
• Gutter, fascia & soffit sealing: Leaking gutter joints, end caps, fascia and soffit joints resealed with exterior sealant.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Sash and case window surrounds in stone and brick re-pointed with traditional sand mastic.

Why Mr Mastic in South Ockendon

We aren’t a local firm, but we come to South Ockendon ready for the job. Mr Mastic has more than 20 years in the trade and over 2,847 completed projects, and we are fully insured. As an ARBOMaster approved applicator we work with Arbo and Everbuild sealants. Our 4.9-star Google rating comes from 180+ five-star reviews. You get a clear quote before any old sealant comes out, and the finished work is covered by a one-year guarantee.

Around South Ockendon

The nearest station to the town centre is Ockendon station. Well-known places nearby include Ealing Broadway Centre (0.6 miles south-east) and Thameside Centre (2.9 miles south-east). Around the centre, our work takes us to homes, rentals and businesses close to Bonnygate Primary School, Beacon Hill Academy, Church of St Nicholas and Royal Oak Inn. For open space, Chafford Gorges Nature Park is close by.