Romsey, Hampshire
We live and work here. Blocked drains, silted gullies, root-damaged clay pipework and flooded yards across Romsey, Whitenap, Woodley, Cupernham, Timsbury and Braishfield: cleared, camera-checked and explained.
A local number answered by the person who will be doing the work, not a national call centre.
So Drainage Solutions is based on Cutforth Way in Romsey, SO51 0BG. Romsey is not an outlying area we occasionally travel to; it is where the van is parked overnight. Whitenap, Cupernham, Woodley, Halterworth, Abbotswood, Ampfield, Timsbury, Michelmersh and Braishfield are all a few minutes away.
Because we are local, we know the awkward bits: the narrow lanes off the Hundred where a large jetting unit needs thinking about, the older properties near the Abbey with drainage that predates any drawings, and the newer estates off Botley Road where the runs are shallow and easy to damage.
The phone is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If something is backing up in Romsey at midnight, you are ringing someone a short drive away rather than a dispatcher passing your job down a list. Ring and we will give you an honest arrival time.
Every service we offer is available across Romsey, for households, landlords and commercial premises alike.
One visit that clears the blockage, shows you what caused it on screen, and leaves the run flowing before we pack up, so you are not paying for the same drain twice.
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Internal blockages dealt with without a bathroom full of foul water: the cause traced from the fixture back to the run, cleared, and the waste vacuumed away with us.
More about this serviceA camera down the run turns a guess into a fact: you find out exactly what is wrong, where it is, how deep it sits, and what it genuinely takes to put right.
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Rodding punches a hole through a blockage. Jetting removes it, fat, silt, scale and root growth cut away and flushed out, so the run keeps flowing long after we have gone.
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Silt, leaves and grit vacuumed out rather than pushed along, the run jetted clean, and water taken away from your doorway, driveway and yard instead of standing on it.
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The defect is located on camera before a spade goes in the ground, so the hole is where the fault is, not three exploratory trenches across your garden looking for it.
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A new structural lining cured inside the existing pipe: cracks sealed, open joints closed and root entry stopped, with no excavation and nothing to reinstate afterwards.
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Standing water, silt, sludge and flood water vacuumed out and taken away by the same firm that cleared the drain, so there is no second contractor and no second wait.
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Nights, weekends and bank holidays on the same number, answered by the person who turns up: drain cleared, water vacuumed away and the cause explained before we leave.
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Pubs, kitchens, care homes, shops and managed estates kept running: work planned around your hours where it can be, and answered 24 hours a day when it cannot.
More about this serviceBased on Cutforth Way in Romsey, SO51 0BG. Not a franchise, not a call centre, and not a national brand subcontracting your job to whoever is nearest.
Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Fourteen years in the trade, fully insured, City & Guilds qualified and WJA qualified for high-pressure jetting.
A CCTV camera goes down the run before anything is priced, so you are looking at the same footage we are.
Romsey's housing runs from listed cottages in the town centre to estates built in the last few years. Each brings its own drainage quirks.
Around the Hundred, Church Street, Latimer Street and the Abbey, drainage is often original clay in tight, awkward positions with chambers hidden under later extensions and paving. Camera work is essential here, guessing where the run goes is how people end up digging in the wrong place.
Cupernham, Woodley and Halterworth have plenty of clay and early plastic pipework at an age where joints open and roots find their way in. Repeat slow drainage in these areas is usually a defect in the pipe rather than simply too much going down it.
Newer plastic runs, often shallow and laid under drives and landscaping. Blockages here are typically build materials left in the run, wipes, or damage from later garden works. Relining and patch repair suit these well.
Timsbury, Michelmersh, Braishfield, Lockerley and Awbridge bring septic tanks, long private runs, yard gullies and heavy silt loading from farm tracks. Wet vacuuming and jetting are the usual tools, and we remove the waste ourselves.
Sitting on the Test valley with chalk, gravel and clay all within a few miles, Romsey has a particular set of recurring faults.
Properties close to the river and the water meadows deal with high groundwater in winter. Gullies and soakaways that are half full of silt cannot cope with a heavy downpour on top of that, and yards and garages flood.
Romsey is a green town with a lot of established trees and hedging. Roots find any open joint in old clay pipework and grow into a mat inside the pipe. Cutting and jetting clears it; lining is what stops it coming back.
Gravel drives, farm access and leaf fall combine to fill gullies with grit and sludge. Once the gully pot is full, water sits on the surface. Vacuuming the pot out and jetting the outlet restores it in one visit.
The same story as everywhere, but in older Romsey pipework with rougher walls, the plug forms faster. Jetting scours the wall back properly rather than punching a channel through the middle.
Where later building work has loaded old shallow pipework, sections crack or drop. A survey pinpoints it so any excavation is limited to a metre or two rather than lifting a whole patio.
Tell us what is happening and where you are in Romsey. We will give you an honest answer about when we can be with you.
A CCTV camera goes down the run so the cause is found rather than guessed at. You are told what is there before anything is cleared, cut or dug.
We explain what the footage shows and what the options are, in plain English, before any work is priced or agreed.
Jetting, rodding, vacuuming or root cutting as the job requires, WJA-qualified jetting where the run needs scouring back to a clean pipe wall.
Where the pipe is damaged, we reline or patch from inside wherever it will take it. Excavation is a last resort, not a first move.
The drain is run and checked before we close the job off, the waste goes with us, and you are told what caused it so it is less likely to return.
Yes. So Drainage Solutions works out of Cutforth Way, Romsey SO51 0BG. Romsey is our home town, not an outlying area we occasionally cover.
Most of Romsey is only a few minutes from our base, so we are usually the quickest option in town. Ring and we will tell you where we are and when we can realistically be with you rather than quoting a time we cannot keep.
It depends on the cause, the access and the time on site, so we do not advertise a single price. Describe the problem on the phone and we will explain what is likely involved. You will not be charged for anything you have not agreed to.
Yes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Being local means night and weekend calls in Romsey are practical rather than a two-hour trek.
Yes, Ampfield, Braishfield, Timsbury, Michelmersh, Awbridge, Sherfield English, Lockerley and North Baddesley are all within our normal patch, along with Nursling and Chandler's Ford.
We do it often. Older Romsey property needs a careful approach, chambers are frequently buried under later work, so we survey first and keep any excavation as small and targeted as possible.
Yes. Pubs, restaurants, shops, care homes and managed sites around the town and its industrial estates. We can work early, late or overnight so trading is not disrupted.
Usually. Standing water often comes down to blocked or silted gullies, a failed soakaway, or a collapsed section of surface-water pipe. A camera survey establishes which before anyone starts digging.
We work on plenty of rural drainage around Romsey: long private runs, yard gullies and heavy silt. We wet-vacuum and remove waste in house rather than subcontracting it out.
Yes. A pre-purchase CCTV survey is a sensible precaution on older Romsey properties, particularly anything with mature trees, an extension over the drain run, or original clay pipework.
Whether it is a blocked toilet in Cupernham, a flooded yard in Timsbury or a slow gully at a business on the industrial estate, you are calling a Romsey firm a short drive away.
Ring for a straight answer today, or send a few details and photographs and we will come back to you.
A village on our doorstep, with post-war estates, older cottages and long rural runs. We clear the blockage, put a camera down and tell you plainly what caused it.
Village housing, Test valley farmland and one of the largest industrial estates in the area, all in a couple of square miles. We clear it, camera it and take the waste away ourselves.
Large wooded plots, mature pines and decades-old clay pipework make root ingress the number one drainage problem here. We cut it out, jet the run clean and show you the pipe on camera.
From terraced streets in Portswood and Shirley to city-centre flats, industrial units in the docks and family homes out towards Bitterne; we clear the blockage, then put a camera down to show you what caused it.
Low-lying ground beside the Test estuary means Totton feels drainage faults faster than most places. We clear the blockage, vacuum the silt out and check the run on camera before anything is priced.
