Our work

Before, after, and the bit in the middle that decides both

Name: Exeter Silicone Services
Address: Exeter, Devon, EX2, GB
Telephone: 07307 202508
Price range: £95 to £185

A reseal is one of the few jobs where the difference is obvious in a photograph. It is also one of the easiest to fake, so the state of this page is set out plainly before anything else on it.

What you are looking at

The pairs below are illustrations, generated the same way as every other photograph on this site. Each one shows the same joint in two states from the same camera position, which is what makes them useful, and none of them is a customer's bathroom.

Real job photographs are taken on every booking, before and after, and they go to whoever booked the work. They will replace these as the diary fills, and when they do the caption will say which town and which month. Until then this page says what it is rather than implying something it is not.

A bath joint at the tap end

The failure almost always starts where the bath meets the wall at the tap end, because that corner stays wet longest. By the time the black shows along the whole run, the bead has usually been lifting at that one corner for a year.

The same bath joint from the same position after resealing, carrying a clean, evenly tooled white silicone bead — An illustration of the change rather than a customer's bathroom.

The joint between a white bath and cream wall tiles where the sealant has blackened with mould and is lifting away from the tile at the corner — An illustration of the change rather than a customer's bathroom.

A shower corner and tray edge

The vertical internal corner takes running water down two planes at once and never sees moving air, so it is the joint in a bathroom that dries slowest. It is also the one most often sealed flat rather than concave, which leaves it holding a bead of water after every shower.

The same shower corner after resealing, with a clean white bead at the tray edge and up the corner and the glass screen foot clear — An illustration of the change rather than a customer's bathroom.

A shower enclosure corner where the sealant at the tray edge and up the vertical corner has gone black and is peeling back from the tile — An illustration of the change rather than a customer's bathroom.

The middle

The stage nobody photographs

A before and an after only show the ends. The middle is where the difference is actually made, and it is the part worth looking at if you are deciding who to book.

A bath to tile joint stripped back to a bare, open gap between the tile edge and the bath, clean and dry — Stripped back to bare
Every layer off, down to bare tile and bare acrylic. If a joint has been sealed three times this is most of the visit, and it is the only moment you can see that the old material has gone rather than been covered.

Two straight parallel strips of blue low-tack masking tape run either side of a bath joint, leaving a clean channel between them ready for sealing — Masked, both sides
Low-tack tape either side of the joint, set to the width the finished bead should be. That is what makes a line straight, not a steady hand, and it is why the tape comes off while the silicone is still wet.

The joint between a shower tray and grey wall tiles carrying a fresh white silicone bead tooled to a clean concave finish — Tooled concave
The finished bead is a hollow rather than a flat band or a shoulder, so water runs off it instead of sitting on it. A joint that stays wet an hour longer each day is the joint that goes black first.

A fresh clear silicone line along the joint between a kitchen worktop and a tiled upstand, running past an inset stainless sink — The kitchen version
Same method, different material. A worktop run takes a degrease before the solvent wipe, because silicone will not bond through cooking grease any more than it will through soap.

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.

Book a reseal Call 07307 202508 info@hemburycontracting.co.uk