Drainage Work in Burbage, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage under a continuous village terrace is rarely arranged the way anybody would arrange it today, and finding out how it actually runs is the first job.
Where houses were built as a run rather than individually, the drainage was usually laid as a run too. A single line frequently serves several properties, passing under gardens and through walls that were built around it, and the manhole in your garden may be the only access for a system serving your neighbours as well. That changes what can be built over, what can be diverted, and crucially who has to agree to it.
At the front there is a different complication. With the building on the footpath, rainwater from the front roof slope discharges at the edge of the public highway, often into a gully that is the county’s rather than yours, or into one whose ownership nobody has established in living memory. Before altering anything at the front we work out what belongs to whom, because getting that wrong turns a small job into a highways matter.
On a system of this age we put a camera down before designing over anything. An hour with a survey turns assumptions into a drawing.
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 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough 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 Burbage street to the next.
Where a shared run serves several houses, the permissions and the notices are agreed before the spade goes in. On a continuous terrace that can mean several neighbours, and arranging it usually takes longer than the work itself.
Every connection is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep, which on a shared village system is genuinely useful to whoever opens the ground next.
Rainwater goods on the front elevation of these houses discharge at the edge of the public footpath, and on the older properties they are often still cast iron. Cast iron is worth keeping where it is sound, because it lasts and it looks right, but it needs painting inside and out and it needs the joints maintained. Replacing it in plastic on a conservation area frontage is both a visual change and one the council may take an interest in, so we ask before we assume.
Part of our wider building work in Burbage.
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.
