Drainage Work in Nuneaton, priced in writing before anything starts.
There is one drainage question that comes up in Nuneaton more than anywhere else we work: what to do when a soakaway is not an option.
A soakaway relies on the ground accepting water at a useful rate and continuing to accept it. On rock, on heavy clay and on made up or backfilled ground, all three of which this town has in quantity, that assumption frequently fails. The percolation test is not a formality here. It is the difference between a working drainage design and a hole that fills in October and stays full until spring, taking the new patio with it.
When the test comes back badly there are answers, and they are worth knowing before the extension is designed rather than after. Attenuation with a controlled discharge, a connection to an existing surface water system where one exists, or rethinking how much hard surface the scheme actually creates. What does not work is building the soakaway anyway and hoping, which is what a price that skipped the test is quietly assuming.
On the foul side the usual rules apply. Where a run belongs to the water company rather than to you, building over or close to it needs consent granted before the concrete goes in.
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 Nuneaton & Bedworth 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 Nuneaton street to the next.
Excavating for drainage in hard ground takes longer and produces more spoil than the same trench elsewhere, and on a deep run that difference is significant. We price the ground we expect to find and we tell you what would change it.
Every connection is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep, which matters here because the next person to dig will hit the same hard ground and deserves to know where not to.
Where a soakaway genuinely will not work, attenuation is the answer worth understanding. Instead of trying to push water into ground that will not take it, the water is held in a tank or a crated void and released slowly at a rate the system downstream can cope with. It is more expensive than a soakaway and considerably cheaper than a drainage design that fails every winter, and on this ground it is often the honest recommendation.
Part of our wider building work in Nuneaton.
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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