Drainage Work in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage is where extensions in Lutterworth go wrong quietly, and where the cost of getting it wrong turns up years later.
The first question on any rear extension is whether there is a public sewer under the footprint. Since 2011 a great many drains that householders assumed were theirs have been the water company’s, and Severn Trent is the undertaker here. Building over or close to one of theirs needs a build over agreement, applied for and granted before the concrete goes in. It is a routine application and it is a serious problem to be caught without one, because it surfaces during a sale when you are least able to deal with it.
Surface water is the second question. A soakaway is only a solution if the ground will actually take the water, and on the heavier ground around this part of Leicestershire that is a site by site answer rather than an assumption. A percolation test costs very little compared with a soakaway that fills up and stays full every winter.
We also get called to existing problems: a gully that floods in every heavy rain, a manhole that backs up, a downpipe discharging to nothing in particular. Those are usually cheaper to fix properly than to keep living around, and we will tell you honestly if the answer is a fifty pound job rather than a job for us.
Our drainage work page covers surveys, repairs and new connections.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the Harborough District Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our drainage work page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Lutterworth street to the next.
Drainage is the one trade where the constraint is depth rather than width. A connection into an existing manhole on a Lutterworth back plot can mean a deep, narrow excavation close to a boundary wall that was built without much of a foundation, and that needs shoring and it needs care rather than speed.
Where the run crosses a neighbour’s ground or a shared entry, the permissions are sorted before the spade goes in. We would rather lose a week at the start than open a hole we cannot legally finish. Every new connection is tested before it is covered and you get a drawing of what actually went in the ground, because the next person to dig there deserves better than guesswork.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
