Mastic man in Waltham Forest

Your local mastic man for Waltham Forest

Waltham Forest runs north from Leyton and Leytonstone through Walthamstow to Highams Park and Chingford on the edge of Epping Forest. It is a borough of long terraced streets, many split into upper and lower flats, with newer blocks rising around its stations and town centres. Mr Mastic covers every part of it from our base in Crawley.

The most common call we get from homes like these is about black mould along the bath or shower seal. Cleaning it off rarely works for long, because the mould grows into and under the silicone. We cut the old bead out, treat and dry the joint, and reseal with anti-fungal silicone; our anti-mould resealing page explains the process.

Victorian and Edwardian terraces, Warner homes and new blocks

Leyton grew rapidly between 1870 and 1910, and Walthamstow has thousands of Edwardian and 1920s terraced streets running from Coppermill Lane to Wood Street. The Warner Estate homes, many along Markhouse Road and St James Street, are a local type: yellow brick terraces with red brick detailing and slate roofs, built as two separate flats in one house. Later Warner terraces in Highams Park date from the 1930s.

In these split houses, the upstairs bathroom sits right above someone else’s kitchen or living room, so a leaking bath seal causes real damage. Small kitchens in the ground-floor flats see a lot of steam, and the seal along the worktop and around the sink gets stained and starts to lift; see kitchen resealing.

The borough also has post-war estates and newer homes. The former Housing Action Trust estates at Cathall Road, Oliver Close, Boundary Road and Chingford Hall were rebuilt in the 1990s and early 2000s, and new flats are going up around Walthamstow Central and Blackhorse Lane. There, sealant tends to fail in the first couple of years as the building settles.

Jobs we take on in Waltham Forest

• 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: 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: Outside movement joints given new backing rod and a flexible, weatherproof sealant in a colour to match the wall.
• New-build mastic & snagging: Failed builder sealant in new homes put right, and plot mastic for developers.
• Floor & skirting joints: Skirting-to-floor gaps, tiled floor movement joints and concrete floor joints sealed with the right product.
• 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: Gutter unions, outlets and fascia joints that leak in heavy rain cleaned and resealed.
• Sand mastic for sash & case windows: Old sand mastic around sash windows and doors raked out and renewed with traditional burnt sand mastic.

Choosing a mastic man in Waltham Forest

Terraced flats need sealant that is done right first time, because a bad job upstairs soon shows downstairs. Mr Mastic has been resealing homes for over 20 years and is an ARBOMaster approved applicator, using Arbo and Everbuild anti-fungal and weatherproof sealants. We’re fully insured, have more than 2,847 projects behind us and a 4.9-star Google rating built on 180+ five-star reviews. We give you a clear quote at the start, and the work is covered by a one-year guarantee.

Landmarks near Waltham Forest

The nearest station to the town centre is Chingford station. Places most people will know nearby are Edmonton Green Shopping Centre (3.6 miles west) and The Epping Forest Museum (less than half a mile west). Around the centre, our work takes us to homes, rentals and businesses close to Whitehall Primary School, Heathcote School & Science College, Normanhurst School and St John the Baptist Church. Green spaces within reach include Roding Valley Meadows and Pole Hill.