Mastic man in St Albans

Sealant jobs we do in St Albans

St Albans homeowners tend to notice detail. A bright white bead slapped round a cream bath or a period window stands out in a city where so many houses have been looked after for generations. Good resealing should be almost invisible: straight, tight to the joint and in a colour that suits the surfaces either side.

Mr Mastic covers St Albans from our base in Crawley. We reseal baths, showers, basins and kitchens, replace mastic around windows and doors, and seal external joints on houses, flats and commercial buildings. Where tiles, trays or worktops are not plain white, our colour-matched resealing service helps the new joint blend in. Every job begins with the old sealant coming out completely, and any mould treated before the new bead goes on.

A cathedral city that grew in rings

The historic core around the cathedral and Market Place holds timber-framed and Georgian buildings, and Fishpool Street runs down from Romeland to St Michael’s village. Much of the centre is covered by the St Albans conservation area. Old timber frames and soft brick move with the seasons, so external joints there need soft, flexible materials.

The railway arrived in 1858, and a building boom at the end of the century pushed the population up by 37% between 1891 and 1901. Around Clarence Park, most homes went up between the 1880s and 1920s: large Edwardian and late Victorian houses, terraced cottages with bay windows, and sash or casement windows set in red brick. Fleetville and the streets off Hatfield Road add rows of terraces and interwar semis.

Further out, Marshalswick was built up from the 1920s on the grounds of a sold mansion, with a second large estate from the 1950s on former farmland, and Jersey Farm followed in the 1970s. Their bathrooms have usually been refitted at least once, and the uPVC windows that replaced original frames now often have hard, cracked mastic.

What we do in St Albans

• Bathroom & kitchen resealing: Bathroom and kitchen joints taken back to a clean, dry surface and finished with fresh anti-fungal silicone that won’t lift.
• Window & door mastic: Window and door mastic that has dried out in the sun replaced with a weather-resistant joint that can move with the frame.
• Commercial & hotel sealant: Hotels, offices, washrooms and welfare areas resealed room by room, with out-of-hours working possible to arrange.
• Remedial sealant & repairs: Second opinions on sealant that keeps failing: we strip it out, check for movement or leaks and reseal it properly.
• Fire-rated sealant: Intumescent and fire-rated joints around pipes, cables and frames, installed to the manufacturer’s tested specification.
• 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: Failed builder sealant in new homes put right, and plot mastic for developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Movement joints in tiled and concrete floors, and skirting gaps, sealed so they stay tidy and keep dirt out.
• Regrouting: Cracked, stained or crumbling grout raked out and replaced, with corners resealed in 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.

What you get with Mr Mastic in St Albans

We’d rather show our standards than describe them, but here are the basics. Mr Mastic has over 20 years’ experience and full insurance, and we’re an ARBOMaster approved applicator using Arbo and Everbuild sealants. Across 2,847+ projects we’ve earned a 4.9-star Google rating from more than 180 five-star reviews. Each job comes with a clear quote before work starts and a one-year guarantee when it’s done.

Getting around St Albans

From the centre, the nearest railway station is St Albans station. Well-known places nearby include The Maltings (less than half a mile west) and St Albans Musical Museum (0.5 miles north-east). Typical jobs near the centre are in homes and businesses around Alban City School, Loreto College, Verulam School and Church of St. Peter. Nearby green spaces include The Wick Local Nature Reserve and Verulamium Lake.