Winchester, Hampshire
Period city-centre property, chalk ground and drainage that in places predates any drawings. We put a camera down first, so nothing gets lifted, cut or excavated on a guess.
You see the footage before a single spade goes near your property.
Winchester is a direct run from our Romsey base along the A3090, and it is well within our normal working area. The city centre, St Cross, Weeke, Harestock, Badger Farm, Stanmore, Winnall and the surrounding villages are all ground we cover.
The phone is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Ring and we will give you an honest arrival time based on where we actually are rather than a slot chosen to keep you booked.
Winchester needs a more careful approach than most places on our patch. A great deal of the housing is period property, much of it listed or in a conservation area, with drainage laid long before anybody kept records. Chambers are routinely buried under later extensions, patios and parking. That is exactly why we survey first: on this kind of property, digging on an assumption is how expensive mistakes are made.
Every service we offer is available across Winchester, 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 serviceRelining and patch repair wherever the pipe allows, the right approach for conservation-area and listed property with finished surfaces above.
A CCTV camera goes down the run before anything is cleared, cut or dug, so you are not paying for exploratory digging.
24 hours a day, seven days a week, including nights, weekends and bank holidays, useful for hospitality premises.
Fourteen years in the trade, fully insured, City & Guilds qualified and WJA qualified for high-pressure jetting.
From medieval city core to 1990s suburbs and a substantial student and rental population.
Around the Cathedral, Kingsgate, Jewry Street and the older lanes, drainage is original, awkwardly routed and frequently shared between properties. Access is tight and surface finishes matter, so no-dig repair is nearly always the sensible route.
Highcliffe, Fulflood and Hyde have long combined runs serving several houses, with roots and dropped joints common. Many are now houses in multiple occupation, which puts far more load through the original pipework.
Weeke, Harestock, Badger Farm and Stanmore mix clay and plastic. Blockages here are frequently wipes and fat, with silting at shallow bends and under drives.
City-centre restaurants, pubs and hotels, plus schools, colleges and offices at Winnall. Kitchen grease and silted yard gullies dominate. We work outside opening hours where needed.
Chalk geology, the Itchen running through the city and centuries of building on top of earlier drainage make for particular challenges.
Period property routinely has chambers under later extensions, conservatories and paving. Without a camera and a locator, finding the run is guesswork, and guesswork on a listed building is expensive.
Winchester is heavily treed, and roots exploit every open joint in old clay pipework. They form a mat that catches paper and grease until the run stops. Cutting and jetting clears it; lining the joint keeps them out.
Properties on the valley floor deal with a high water table in winter. Where joints have failed, groundwater infiltrates and carries silt into the pipe, gradually reducing capacity.
Terraced houses converted to five and six bedrooms send far more through the original 100mm pipe than it was designed for, and wipes turn that into a blockage within months.
The concentration of restaurants and pubs in a compact centre puts heavy grease loading through shared runs. High-pressure jetting is the only method that removes it from the pipe wall properly.
Tell us what is happening and where you are in Winchester. 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: SO22 and SO23 including the city centre, St Cross, Fulflood, Hyde, Weeke, Harestock, Badger Farm, Stanmore and Winnall, plus the villages around the city.
It is a direct run from our Romsey base along the A3090. Ring and we will tell you where the van is and when we can realistically be with you rather than quoting a time we cannot meet.
It depends on the cause, the access and the time it takes, so we do not advertise a single price. Tell us what is happening and we will explain how we would tackle it before anything is agreed.
Yes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including bank holidays. That includes commercial premises that cannot wait until Monday.
We do it regularly. The priority is avoiding unnecessary excavation: we survey the run on camera, locate the fault precisely, and use patch lining or full relining from inside the pipe wherever it is possible.
Yes. A camera with a sonde and a surface locator traces the run and marks its position and depth on the ground, which is essential on older Winchester property where chambers have been built or paved over.
Regularly. HMO drainage takes a lot of abuse, and we are used to arranging access with tenants and providing footage and a clear account of what was found.
Yes. We can attend early, late or overnight, jet the run back to a clean pipe wall and camera it afterwards so you know whether a scheduled clean would prevent a repeat.
On period property, absolutely. Original clay pipework, mature trees and extensions built over drain runs are exactly the conditions where a survey before exchange saves a serious surprise afterwards.
Repeat blockages almost always mean a defect is catching debris: roots through a joint, a cracked or dropped section, or heavy scale. Clearing treats the symptom; a survey finds the reason.
From a shared run behind a Fulflood terrace to a hidden chamber under a city-centre courtyard, our order of work does not change: survey, explain, then repair with the least disruption the pipe allows.
Ring for a straight answer today, or send a few details and photographs and we will come back to you.
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.
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.
A village on the Itchen with a high water table, mature estates and long-established gardens. We clear the blockage, vacuum out the silt and show you what the camera finds.
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.
Large post-war estates, chalk downland above the town and modern development at Berewood. We clear the blockage, camera the run and tell you exactly what caused it.
