Southampton, Hampshire
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.
One call, a straight answer, and no work priced before you have seen what is down there.
Southampton is the busiest part of our patch. We are based on Cutforth Way in Romsey, a straight run down the A3057 or the M271, so getting into Shirley, Millbrook, Freemantle, Portswood, St Denys, Bitterne, Woolston, Sholing and the city centre is routine rather than a special trip. That matters when a drain is backing up on a Sunday evening and you need someone who knows which way the traffic is going.
The phone is answered around the clock, including nights, weekends and bank holidays. When you ring, you will get an honest answer about when we can be with you rather than a booking slot invented to hold your business. If we are already on a job in Woolston and you are in Bassett, we will tell you that.
Fourteen years working these streets means we have seen the same Southampton drainage problems again and again: shared Victorian runs behind terraces, student HMOs putting four times the normal load through a single 100mm pipe, and 1930s clay pipework under back gardens that has quietly cracked and let roots in. We turn up expecting those, not surprised by them.
Every service we offer is available across Southampton, 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 serviceA Romsey base 8 miles from the city centre and a phone answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Fourteen years in the trade, most of it on exactly this kind of housing stock and these commercial premises. Very little down here is new to us.
Nothing is cleared, cut or dug until a camera has shown what is actually wrong. You see the footage, then decide.
Fully insured, City & Guilds qualified, and WJA qualified for high-pressure jetting. Waste is vacuumed and taken away in house rather than subcontracted.
Every part of the city drains differently. Knowing the building stock is half the job; it tells us where the chambers are likely to be and what the pipework is probably made of before we lift a single cover.
Portswood, Freemantle, Shirley, Northam and Bevois Valley are full of terraced housing sharing a single combined drain that runs the length of the row. One neighbour's wet wipes become everybody's problem. We trace the run on camera to find whose section has failed, which is the only way to settle it fairly.
Around Portswood, Highfield and Polygon, family houses have been split into five- and six-bedroom lets. The original waste pipework was never sized for that. We deal with landlords and letting agents regularly, work around tenants, and provide camera footage that shows exactly what went down the pan.
Bitterne, Sholing, Harefield, Bassett and Millbrook are largely clay-pipe estates. After sixty or seventy years the joints open up, roots find the gap, and silt collects at the low point. Jetting clears it; a survey tells you whether the pipe itself needs a patch or a liner.
Kitchens along Bedford Place and Oxford Street, shops in the city centre, warehousing near the docks and managed office blocks. Fat, oil and grease is the usual culprit, along with silted yard gullies. We work early, late or overnight so trading is not interrupted.
A port city built on a peninsula, with heavy clay in places, gravel in others, and a drainage network that in parts predates the war. These are the faults that come up week after week.
The single most common commercial blockage in the city. Grease cools in the pipe, hardens on the wall and narrows the bore until nothing passes. High-pressure jetting cuts it back to the pipe wall properly, where rodding only punches a hole through the middle of it.
Terraced and HMO properties suffer worst. Wipes do not break down; they knit together with grease into a solid plug, usually at the first bend or at a chamber. We clear it, then show you on camera whether the pipe itself is also damaged.
Mature street trees and long-established back gardens across Bitterne, Bassett and Shirley send roots straight into open clay joints. They grow into a mat that catches everything else. Jetting and root cutting clears it; relining stops it returning.
Areas near the Itchen and Test, and the flatter ground around Northam, Woolston and the docks, back up quickly in heavy rain when gullies are silted. Clearing gullies and channel drains before winter is far cheaper than pumping out a garage.
Decades of cars parked over shallow pipework in converted front gardens leads to cracked and dropped sections. A camera survey locates the fault to the metre so any excavation is small and targeted, or a no-dig liner is used instead.
Tell us what is happening and where you are in Southampton. 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: the full city, from Shirley, Millbrook and Freemantle in the west through the city centre, Portswood, St Denys and Swaythling, over to Bitterne, Sholing, Woolston and Weston in the east. SO14 to SO19 are all standard territory for us.
We work out of Cutforth Way in Romsey, roughly eight miles from the city centre, and we are on the road across Southampton every day. Ring and we will tell you honestly where we are and when we can realistically be with you; we would rather give you a true time than a comfortable one.
It depends on what is causing it, where it is and how long it takes, so we do not publish a flat figure. Tell us what is happening on the phone and we will explain how we would tackle it and what it involves. Nothing is charged for work you have not agreed to.
Yes. So Drainage Solutions operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If a toilet is backing up at 2am in a Portswood HMO or a restaurant kitchen has flooded after service, the phone is answered.
This is one of the most common jobs in Southampton. We survey the run with a camera to establish where the blockage or damage actually sits, which tells everyone which property's section is responsible instead of leaving neighbours arguing about it.
Regularly. A large share of Southampton housing is rented, and we are used to arranging access with tenants, working to agents' requirements and supplying camera footage and a clear description of what was found and done.
Yes: pubs, restaurants, shops, care homes, offices, warehousing and managed estates. Grease-clogged kitchen runs and silted yard gullies are the two we are called to most. We can work outside your trading hours.
Only if there is no alternative, and only once a camera survey has shown exactly where the fault is. In many Southampton properties a damaged section can be patched or relined from inside the pipe with no excavation at all.
Yes. Pre-purchase drain surveys are worth doing on older city housing, especially terraces and anything with mature trees nearby. You get to see the condition of the pipework before you commit.
Repeat blockages nearly always mean the pipe itself has a defect; a crack, a dropped joint, roots, or a build-up of scale that keeps catching debris. Clearing it treats the symptom. A survey finds the reason, which is the only way to stop it happening again.
Whether it is a backed-up toilet in a Woolston flat, a flooded yard behind a Bedford Place kitchen or a slow-draining gully outside a Bassett family home, the process is the same: we clear it, we camera it, and we tell you the truth about what we find.
Call for a straight answer today, or send a few details and photographs and we will come back to you with a realistic assessment.
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.
Railway terraces, post-war estates and busy commercial units all put different demands on the same ageing pipework. We clear the blockage, survey the run and tell you whether it will happen again.
Mature estates above the Itchen valley, older village property and a busy commercial strip. We clear the blockage, survey the run and tell you whether it will come back.
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.
Victorian village property, coastal ground and mature gardens above Southampton Water. We clear the blockage, survey the pipe and give you a straight account of what caused it.
