About
An Exeter contracting business, with resealing as its own service line
Where it came from
Hembury Contracting is Sam Hembury's Exeter business: handyman work, property maintenance, refurbishments and the awkward jobs in between. Bathrooms come up constantly, and resealing is the thing customers keep asking about while somebody is already there for something else.
It kept coming up for a reason. It is a small job with a clear result, the sort of thing people put off for two years and then want done this week, and almost nobody local sells it on its own. Searching for it in Exeter turns up a firm from out of the area, a couple of directories and a lot of bath re-enamellers.
So it has its own site, its own price card and its own phone number. The work is done by Hembury Contracting people, trained on it properly, because the method is the whole job and the method is learnable. There is nothing clever about running a bead. There is quite a lot to getting the joint ready for one.
On the record
What is actually on file
The work is done by Sam Hembury and the crew he trains, trading as Hembury Contracting out of Exeter. One entity, one VAT registration, one invoice.
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- Hembury Contracting
- Exeter Silicone Services is a service line of Hembury Contracting, Sam Hembury's Exeter business. Same trading entity, same invoices, same VAT registration.
- Public liability cover
- Insured for work in your home and in occupied rented property. A copy of the certificate goes over by email if you want to see it before booking.
- Published prices
- The price card is on the site rather than behind a form, VAT included and silicone included. You can work out what your job costs before you get in touch.
- The old joint comes out
- Every layer, plus the residue film underneath it, before anything new goes on. That is the part that takes the time and it is the part that decides how long the new bead lasts.
Removal tools, not just a blade
Blades held flat on glazed tile and glass where they cannot bite, plastic tools on acrylic, stone resin and painted surfaces where a blade would score. Different surfaces, different tools.
Silicone remover for the residue
The invisible film left after the bulk of a joint is scraped off is what ruins the next bead. It comes off with a purpose made remover and a wipe, not with more scraping.
Sanitary grade silicone with a fungicide
White or clear as the room needs, and a neutral cure silicone on natural stone where an acetoxy one could mark it. Materials are in the price rather than added to it.
Masking, tooling and a wet tape pull
Both sides taped, one pass, tooled to a concave finish that sheds water, and the tape pulled while the silicone is still wet. That is the whole reason a line is straight.
Before and after photographs
Taken as a matter of course. They matter most on letting work, where the set may be what settles a checkout question months later.
How we work
How the work is done
Removal, then everything else
The old joint comes out completely, including the residue film that is left on the tile once the visible material is scraped off. That film is invisible, it feels like nothing, and a new bead applied over it is bonded to a layer that is barely attached to anything. It is the reason most reseals fail early.
Dry, or it does not happen
Silicone will not bond to a damp edge or a greasy one. A joint that has been holding water for a year is wetter than it looks, and a kitchen joint has cooking grease in it. Cleaning and drying are steps rather than gestures, and if a joint is not dry the bead waits.
Told what is actually wrong
A bath that is not supported, a tray that flexes, a leaking waste, failed grout, a room with no working extractor. All of those look like a sealant problem and none of them are fixed by sealant. Where that is what we find, you get told, with what it would take to put right, rather than being sold a bead that will fail the same way.
Photographed
Before and after, on every job, as a matter of course. On letting work it is the set of photographs that settles a checkout question months later, and it costs nothing to take them.
Get a price
Book a reseal with Exeter Silicone Services
Send a photograph of the joint and say which fittings need doing. Back comes the price off the published card and the next free slot. Ringing is quicker if you want a date fixed today.
- Bath or shower
- £95
- Both on one visit
- £150
- Whole bathroom
- £185
VAT and silicone included. Minimum charge £95.