Coverage
Exeter, and about twenty miles in every direction from it
The working area runs from the Exeter city districts out to the estuary at Topsham and Exmouth, down the coast as far as Teignmouth and Dawlish, west to Okehampton and the edge of Dartmoor, north to Tiverton and Crediton, and east through Ottery St Mary to Honiton and Sidmouth.
A bath in Crediton and a bath in Topsham are the same job at the same price, and there is no travel charge anywhere on this list. What does change between them is the kind of bathroom, so that is how the list below is grouped: the city districts, the estuary and coast, and the market towns.
If you are just outside the area, ask. The answer depends on the day and what else is booked nearby, and you will get a straight one rather than a maybe.
One practical note that applies everywhere on this list. The room has to be dry to start, which is easy to arrange and easy to forget: a shower used an hour before we arrive is a joint that cannot be sealed that morning. Keeping the bath or the shower out of use from the night before is the single most useful thing anybody does for their own booking, and where that is not practical the visit can be timed round it instead.
The Exeter districts
Most of the work is here, and most of it is in Victorian and Edwardian terraces where the bathroom was put in later, often over what used to be a back bedroom or a scullery. Panelled baths against a tiled half wall, tight floor space, and a joint you have to kneel in the doorway to reach.
Two things come up repeatedly in the older city stock. Baths sat on timber floors that flex, which is why a joint on the long wall fails again and again while the ends stay perfect. And rooms with a window painted shut and an extractor that was never wired to anything, where the mould is on the ceiling as well as in the joint.
- ExeterEX1-EX6
- HeavitreeEX1
- St ThomasEX2, EX4
- PinhoeEX1, EX4
- AlphingtonEX2
- IdeEX2
Parking permit zones cover a good deal of Heavitree, St Thomas and the streets round the city centre, so a permit or a bay is worth mentioning when you book.
The estuary and the coast
A lot of holiday flats and holiday lets, which changes the job in one specific way: the bathroom is used hard for six months and then shut up for six, and a room that is shut up damp is a room that grows mould in every joint at once.
These are also the bookings that come with a deadline, because the reseal has to happen in a changeover window. A whole bathroom in a morning, dry overnight and usable for the next guests is the usual shape, and it is worth saying at the point of booking rather than hoping.
- TopshamEX3
- ExmouthEX8
- Budleigh SaltertonEX9
- SidmouthEX10
- DawlishEX7
- TeignmouthTQ14
- KentonEX6
Changeover work is best booked a week or two out. A slot on the day somebody leaves is easy to hold and hard to find at short notice in July.
The market towns and the villages
Everything from new build estates at Cranbrook, where the bathrooms are three or four years old and having their first reseal, to older village houses where the bath was fitted into a room that was never square and the gap between bath and wall runs from two millimetres at one end to nine at the other.
A wide, uneven gap is the one thing that really does change how a joint is made rather than what it costs. Past a certain width a single bead is the wrong answer and the gap wants backing or packing first, otherwise the silicone sags in the middle and tears at the edges within a year.
- CranbrookEX5
- BroadclystEX5
- Ottery St MaryEX11
- HonitonEX14
- CullomptonEX15
- TivertonEX16
- CreditonEX17
- OkehamptonEX20
- Newton AbbotTQ12
- Bovey TraceyTQ13
- ChudleighTQ13
Village and outlying jobs are grouped where possible, so if a neighbour wants theirs done too it is worth mentioning when you book.
Further out
Just outside the list
Places like Axminster, Tavistock, Totnes and Torquay are past the point where a single reseal covers the driving, but they are not a no. Where two or three jobs can be grouped on one day, or where it is a whole bathroom rather than a single joint, it usually works.
The way to find out is to ask with the postcode and what needs doing. You will get either a date or a straight no, rather than being kept waiting on a maybe.
The full list
All 24 places covered
- AlphingtonEX2, Devon
- Bovey TraceyTQ13, Devon
- BroadclystEX5, Devon
- Budleigh SaltertonEX9, Devon
- ChudleighTQ13, Devon
- CranbrookEX5, Devon
- CreditonEX17, Devon
- CullomptonEX15, Devon
- DawlishEX7, Devon
- ExeterEX1-EX6, Devon
- ExmouthEX8, Devon
- HeavitreeEX1, Devon
- HonitonEX14, Devon
- IdeEX2, Devon
- KentonEX6, Devon
- Newton AbbotTQ12, Devon
- OkehamptonEX20, Devon
- Ottery St MaryEX11, Devon
- PinhoeEX1, EX4, Devon
- SidmouthEX10, Devon
- St ThomasEX2, EX4, Devon
- TeignmouthTQ14, Devon
- TivertonEX16, Devon
- TopshamEX3, Devon
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.