Drainage Work in Daventry, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage is where Daventry extensions go wrong quietly, and where the cost of getting it wrong turns up years later during a sale.
The first question on any rear extension is whether a public sewer runs under the footprint. Since 2011 a great many drains householders assumed were their own have belonged to the water company. Building over or close to one needs a build over agreement, applied for and granted before the concrete goes in. It is a routine application and a serious problem to be caught without, because it surfaces during a sale when you are least able to deal with it.
Estate housing has a particular pattern worth knowing. When a large area is built at once the drainage is laid out to a scheme rather than house by house, which means runs frequently cross plot boundaries in ways that are not obvious from the manhole covers. On a Daventry estate we establish what serves what before we dig rather than assuming the drain in your garden is only yours.
Surface water is the other half. A soakaway only works if the ground will take the water, and that is a site by site answer rather than an assumption. A percolation test costs very little next to a soakaway that fills in October and stays full until spring.
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 West Northamptonshire 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 Daventry street to the next.
Every new connection is tested before it is covered and you get a drawing of what actually went in the ground, which matters more than usual on an estate where the original layout crosses boundaries. Where a run crosses a neighbour’s ground the permissions are sorted before the spade goes in rather than after.
Where a public sewer crosses the footprint there is a choice people are rarely offered. Instead of a build over agreement, the run can sometimes be diverted clear of the extension entirely. That costs more on the day and removes the constraint permanently, which matters on an estate where the original drainage layout crosses boundaries and a future owner’s solicitor will read the searches carefully. We price both rather than assuming you want the cheaper one.
Part of our wider building work in Daventry.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
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