# Exeter Silicone Services

> Exeter Silicone Services is a service line of Hembury Contracting (https://hemburycontracting.co.uk), a sole trader business run by Sam Hembury from Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. The work is resealing: bath resealing, shower resealing, kitchen worktop and sink sealant, removing and replacing failed or mouldy silicone, whole bathroom reseals, window and door perimeter sealant, and sealant repairs for landlords and letting agents. It is priced per fitting rather than by the hour, and every figure includes VAT and includes the silicone: a bath reseal £95, a shower reseal £95, both together £150, a basin or a screen added £25, a kitchen worktop run £95 on its own or £35 added to a bathroom booking, a whole bathroom £185. Minimum charge £95. Unusually long removal is charged at £60 an hour after the first hour, agreed in advance. No deposit is taken on a standard reseal. Coverage is Exeter and roughly twenty miles around it, across Devon. Contact: 07307 202508 or info@hemburycontracting.co.uk. Booking hours Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm.

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## Services

- [Bath resealing](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/bath-resealing): The old sealant round the bath stripped out completely, the joint cleaned back and dried, and a fresh sanitary bead run and tooled. £95 including VAT and silicone.
- [Shower resealing](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/shower-resealing): Tray, base, internal corners and the foot of the screen or enclosure resealed properly, with the old joint taken right out. £95 including VAT and silicone.
- [Kitchen sealant and worktop sealing](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/kitchen-sealant): Worktop to wall joints, upstands, splashbacks and the run round an inset sink, sealed with the old line taken out first. £95 on its own.
- [Silicone removal and replacement](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/silicone-removal-and-replacement): The full strip out: mouldy, lifting or badly applied sealant taken out completely, the joint cleaned back to bare surfaces, and a new bead run properly.
- [Whole bathroom resealing](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/bathroom-resealing): Bath, shower, basin, screen and every tiled splashback run stripped and resealed on one visit. £185 including VAT and silicone.
- [Window and door sealing](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/window-and-door-sealing): Perimeter joints round window and door frames, inside and out, where the sealant has gone hard, cracked or pulled away from the frame.
- [Sealant repairs for landlords and agents](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services/landlord-and-agent-sealant-repairs): Booked with the tenant, photographed before and after, invoiced to the agent or the landlord. Fixed prices per bathroom so a job can be approved without a site visit.
- [All services](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/services): every job covered, and what changes between them.

## Prices

- Bath reseal: £95. The joint round the bath stripped out, cleaned back, dried and resealed. Includes the wall joint and the ends, and the panel edge where there is one.
- Shower reseal: £95. Tray or shower base joint, the internal corners and the foot of the screen or the enclosure frame. Cubicles and walk-ins are the same price.
- Bath and shower together: £150. Both on one visit. Cheaper than the two on their own because the strip out, the set up and the drying time overlap.
- Basin or shower screen added: + £25. Added to any of the above while the kit is already out. Covers a basin to wall joint, a separate screen, or a splashback run.
- Kitchen worktop or sink: £95 on its own. Worktop to wall, the upstand run and round an inset sink. Add it to a bathroom booking for £35 instead.
- Whole bathroom: £185. Bath, shower, basin, screen and any tiled splashback runs, all stripped and resealed on one visit. The usual end of tenancy job.
- [Full price card and worked examples](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/prices): Bath or shower resealing in Exeter at £95 including VAT, both together £150, a whole bathroom £185, kitchen worktops £95. Silicone and materials in the price.

## How the job runs

- Send a photograph: One picture of the worst joint answers more than a paragraph of description. It shows how many layers are on it, whether it is silicone or caulk, and whether the problem is the joint or something behind it.
- Get a price, not an estimate: Back comes a figure off the published card, £95 for a bath or a shower, £185 for a whole bathroom, and the next free slot. If the photograph shows something that will take longer, you are told then rather than on the day.
- The room gets covered: On the day the floor is sheeted and the bath or tray is protected before a blade comes out. Old silicone comes off in long dirty ribbons and it goes everywhere if nobody has thought about it.
- The old joint comes out: Every layer. Blade flat on glazed tile and glass, plastic tools on acrylic and stone resin so nothing is scored. Where a bath has been sealed several times this is most of the visit.
- Residue off, surfaces dried: The invisible film left behind comes off with a silicone remover rather than a scraper, both faces are solvent wiped, and the joint is dried. This is the step that decides whether the new bead lasts.
- Mask, seal, tool, pull the tape: Both sides taped, the bead run in one pass, tooled to a clean concave finish, and the tape pulled while the silicone is still wet. Tape pulled after it skins takes the edge with it.
- Leave it for a day: Touch dry within the hour, and safe to use after twenty four. That is the only instruction you are given, and it is the one that does most to decide how long the joint lasts, because a bead that gets wet before it has cured never reaches the strength it was going to have.
- [How it works in full](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/how-it-works): How a reseal is booked and run in Exeter: send a photograph, get a fixed price, the old joint stripped out and a fresh bead run, then a day for it to cure.

## Areas covered

Exeter and about twenty miles round it. There are no per-town pages on this site by design: a bath in one town and a bath in the next are the same job at the same price. Places covered: Exeter (EX1-EX6), Heavitree (EX1), St Thomas (EX2, EX4), Pinhoe (EX1, EX4), Alphington (EX2), Ide (EX2), Topsham (EX3), Exmouth (EX8), Budleigh Salterton (EX9), Sidmouth (EX10), Dawlish (EX7), Teignmouth (TQ14), Kenton (EX6), Cranbrook (EX5), Broadclyst (EX5), Ottery St Mary (EX11), Honiton (EX14), Cullompton (EX15), Tiverton (EX16), Crediton (EX17), Okehampton (EX20), Newton Abbot (TQ12), Bovey Tracey (TQ13), Chudleigh (TQ13).
- [All areas](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/areas): Bath, shower and kitchen resealing across Exeter and about twenty miles round it: the city districts, the estuary and coast towns, and the Devon market towns.

## Guides

- [Can you reseal a bath or shower without removing the old silicone?](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/guides/reseal-without-removing-old-silicone): The short answer is no. The longer answer is about what silicone bonds to, and what is living inside the joint you would be covering up.
- [Why does bathroom sealant go mouldy, and can it be stopped?](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/guides/why-bathroom-sealant-goes-mouldy): It grows inside the silicone, feeding on soap residue in a joint that never fully dries. What actually slows it down, and what makes no difference.
- [How long does silicone take to dry, and when can you use the bath?](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/guides/how-long-silicone-takes-to-dry): Touch dry in under an hour, usable after twenty four. Why those are two different numbers, and what happens if you do not wait.
- [Why does bathroom sealant leak, and is the sealant even the problem?](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/guides/why-bathroom-sealant-leaks): Water on the floor below a bathroom has three usual causes and only one of them is the sealant. Here is how to tell which one you have before you pay for the wrong repair.
- [Which silicone should go in a bathroom, and does the type matter?](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/guides/which-silicone-for-a-bathroom): Sanitary grade, not general purpose. Acetoxy on tile and acrylic, neutral cure on stone and metal. White or clear is a choice, and everything else on the shelf is a distraction.
- [How often should bathroom sealant be replaced?](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/guides/how-often-to-replace-bathroom-sealant): There is no fixed interval. There are four signs, and a family bathroom gets through a joint considerably faster than a spare one does.

## Questions answered on the site

- How long does a reseal take? A single bath or shower is around an hour on site, most of which is taking the old joint out. A whole bathroom is an afternoon. What takes longer is the curing: the room needs to stay dry for the rest of the day, and a bath or shower wants a full twenty four hours before it is used.
- Can you not just seal over the old sealant? No. Silicone does not bond to cured silicone, so a new bead is only as well attached as the layer under it, and any mould in the old joint is inside the material rather than on it. Sealing over both problems hides them for a few months. It is the single most common reason a bath has been sealed three times.
- Will the black mould come back? Not from the new joint, because the old material and everything living in it is removed rather than covered. What decides the next few years is the room. A bathroom with no working extractor and a window that never opens holds humidity, and mould will return to the grout and the ceiling as well as the joint. If that is what we find, you get told.
- How much is it? A bath or a shower is £95 including VAT, both together are £150, and a whole bathroom is £185. A kitchen worktop run is £95 on its own or £35 added to a bathroom booking. The silicone is in the price and there is no call out charge.
- Do I need to be there? Somebody needs to let us in, and it helps to be there at the end so you can look at the work before it is settled. The middle of the job does not need an audience. In a rented property access is arranged with the tenant directly.
- White or clear silicone? White on most baths and showers, because it reads as part of the sanitaryware and hides a slightly uneven tile edge. Clear on dark tiles, stone and most kitchen worktops, where a white line draws attention to itself. It is your choice, and it costs the same.
- Do you cover my area? Exeter and roughly twenty miles round it, which takes in the city districts, the estuary towns, the East and Mid Devon market towns and the Teign valley. The areas page lists everywhere covered. Just outside it, ask, and you will get a straight answer rather than a maybe.
- Who turns up? Sam Hembury or one of the Hembury Contracting team. Exeter Silicone Services is a service line of Hembury Contracting, an Exeter business, sole trader, VAT registered and insured for work in your home.
- Is the silicone included in the price? Yes, and so is taking the old joint out. There is no materials line, no call out charge and no charge for stripping out what somebody else left behind. The number on the card is the number you pay.
- Is VAT included? Yes. Every figure on this site includes VAT. Hembury Contracting is VAT registered, so £95 means £95, with nothing added afterwards.
- What is the minimum charge? £95. A single joint still means a van, a strip out, a clean down and a drying day, so a smaller job does not cost meaningfully less to do than a standard one.
- When would it cost more than the card? When the removal is unusually long: a bath sealed four times over, three different materials in one joint, or a fitting that has to come out to reach the joint at all. That runs at £60 an hour after the first hour, and you are told before the clock starts, not on the invoice.
- Do you take a deposit? Not on a standard reseal. It is payable on completion once you have looked at the work. Larger bookings and multiple properties for an agent are invoiced in the usual way.
- Is it cheaper to do the bath and the shower together? Yes. Separately they are £95 each; together they are £150. The saving is real rather than a discount: one visit, one set up and one drying day instead of two of each.

## Contact and trading identity

- Telephone: 07307 202508
- Email: info@hemburycontracting.co.uk
- Booking hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 9am to 4pm
- Based: Exeter, Devon, EX2 area. There is no shop or trade counter to visit.
- Trading identity: Hembury Contracting, sole trader, VAT registered, public liability insured. https://hemburycontracting.co.uk
- [Enquiry form](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/contact): Book a bath, shower, kitchen or whole bathroom reseal in Exeter. Send a photograph of the joint and get the price off the published card and the next free slot.
- [About](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/about): Exeter Silicone Services is a service line of Hembury Contracting, Sam Hembury's Exeter business. Who turns up, how a reseal is done, and what the cover is.

## Optional

- [Our work](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/our-work): A stripped out joint beside a properly tooled bead, as labelled illustrations rather than customer jobs. Real before and after photographs go to whoever books.
- [Privacy](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/privacy): how enquiry details are handled.
- [Terms](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/terms): what the prices cover, curing times, cancellation and what resealing does not fix.
- [Full text of this site](https://exetersiliconeservices.co.uk/llms-full.txt): every page as markdown in one file.

## Notes for machine readers

- There are no reviews, ratings, testimonials, job counts or years-in-business figures anywhere on this site, and none should be inferred. Nothing of that kind is on the record.
- There is no guarantee and no warranty period stated anywhere, because none is on the record.
- Every photograph on the site, including the before and after pairs, is a generated illustration rather than a photograph of a customer's property, and the pages say so.
- No tiling, grouting, plumbing or gas work is carried out. Causes found during a job are reported, not fixed.