Drainage Work in Bedworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage in Bedworth deserves more attention than it usually gets, for the same reason the foundations do. Rigid clay pipe does not tolerate ground movement, and this is ground with a history.
An older drain run on former coalfield ground may be in perfect order, and plenty are. It may equally have lost its fall somewhere along its length, or opened a joint, or cracked at a point nobody has ever seen. None of that necessarily shows at the gully or in the house. What it does do is turn a straightforward extension into an expensive one, because the moment you build over a run you have made it very much harder to get at.
So on this ground we put a camera down the existing system before anything is designed over it. A CCTV survey takes about an hour, gives you the fall, the material and the condition, and answers the only question that actually matters: is this pipe fit to be built on top of, or should it be repaired or rerouted while it is still accessible. Doing that afterwards means coming back through a new floor.
Surface water needs the same scepticism. A soakaway relies on the ground accepting water at a useful rate, and made up, worked and backfilled ground gives answers that vary sharply from plot to plot. We test rather than assume, because a soakaway that fills in autumn and stays full until spring is worse than no soakaway at all.
Where a run belongs to the water company rather than to you, which is more often than people expect, it needs consent before it is built over. 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 Bedworth street to the next.
Every connection we make is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep. That matters more here than in most places, because the next person to open the ground on this plot deserves to know what is down there and roughly what condition it was in, rather than starting from scratch the way we often have to.
The practical constraint is depth rather than width. A connection into an existing manhole on a colliery terrace plot means a deep, narrow hole hard against a boundary wall built with almost no foundation, and that gets shored and worked carefully rather than quickly. Where a run crosses a neighbour’s ground the permissions are agreed before the spade goes in.
Part of our wider building work in Bedworth.
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.
