Drainage Work in Solihull, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage in Solihull runs into trees again, and on this occasion below ground rather than above it.
Root ingress is the single most common drainage fault we are called to here. Roots find a joint or a hairline crack in an older clay run, get in, and then thrive on exactly what is flowing past them. On a wooded plot that is not an occasional problem, it is close to inevitable in any run that is not fully sealed. The symptom is a drain that blocks every few months and clears when it is rodded, which people treat as bad luck rather than as a structural fault in the pipe.
Clearing it repeatedly is money spent on the symptom. A camera survey shows exactly where the ingress is, and the choice is then between lining the affected length and replacing it. We would rather price the fix than sell you an annual visit.
Surface water is the second consideration on these plots, because a large roof and a large area of hard surfacing generate a great deal of water. A soakaway must be sited a sensible distance from the building and the boundary, must be sized against the area draining into it, and must be in ground that actually accepts water, which is a test rather than an assumption. Siting it under a mature canopy is asking for the same root problem again.
In the Green Belt villages a good number of properties run on private treatment systems. 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 Solihull Metropolitan 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 Solihull street to the next.
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. It is a routine application and a serious problem to be caught without.
Every connection is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep, including the position of any soakaway, which is exactly the thing nobody can find when it matters.
Where excavation for drainage runs near a protected tree, the trench is hand dug within the root zone rather than machined through it.
Part of our wider building work in Solihull.
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.
