Drainage Work in Corby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage in Corby has one characteristic that follows directly from how the town was built: it was laid out as a scheme, not house by house.
When a whole estate goes in at once, the drainage is designed for the estate. Runs take the shortest sensible route across the site rather than following plot boundaries, which means a pipe serving several houses may cross the middle of your garden, and a manhole in your border may be the access point for a system that has nothing to do with your house at all. Very little of that is obvious from the covers.
The practical consequence is that an extension footprint on a Corby plot is more likely than average to sit over a shared run. Since 2011 a great many of those runs have belonged to the water company rather than to the householder, which means building over or close to one needs a build over agreement granted before the concrete goes in. It is a routine application and a serious problem to be caught without, because it emerges during a sale.
So we establish what runs where before the design is settled rather than after, and on these plots a camera survey earns its keep more reliably than in a town where each house has its own run.
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 North 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 Corby street to the next.
Every connection is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep. On an estate where the original layout crosses boundaries, that record is the only reliable information anybody will have later.
Where a run crosses a neighbour’s ground, or theirs crosses yours, the permissions are agreed before the spade goes in rather than after.
Surface water on a large modern plot needs somewhere to go, and a soakaway only works if the ground accepts water at a useful rate. We test rather than assume, because a soakaway that fills in autumn and stays full takes the new patio with it.
Driveway crossovers and front gullies were laid when the estate was built and are frequently the oldest untouched drainage on the plot. Where a driveway is being widened or resurfaced, that gully is what decides whether the new surface drains or ponds, and it is far cheaper to deal with while the ground is already open.
Part of our wider building work in Corby.
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.
