Drainage Work in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
The drainage question that decides most Hinckley extensions is one almost nobody asks at the design stage: what kind of system is the house on.
Older parts of the town are largely on combined drainage, where foul waste and rainwater share a single pipe. Newer development is on separate systems, with rainwater kept apart from foul and taken somewhere else entirely. The two behave differently and they are governed differently, and a house that has been extended once already may well be on a hybrid of both without anybody having recorded it.
This matters because an extension adds roof. A modest single storey rear extension can add twenty square metres of new catchment, and in a downpour that water has to go somewhere. Adding it to a combined system that is already at capacity is how a neighbour further down the run ends up with a problem they did not have last year. Where the system is separate, rainwater cannot simply be teed into the foul run for convenience, however much easier it would be on the day.
Because of that we work out where the new water is going before the foundations are designed rather than after the roof is on. Sometimes the answer is a soakaway, which only works if the ground will genuinely take it and is worth a percolation test rather than an assumption. Sometimes it is an attenuation solution, and sometimes it is a properly consented connection.
On the older streets near the centre, where runs are shared between houses and the records are thin, we would rather put a camera down an existing drain for an hour than design around a guess. 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 Hinckley street to the next.
A CCTV survey before the work starts is the cheapest insurance on this kind of job. It tells you the fall, the material, the condition and whether anything has already failed, and it turns a set of assumptions into a drawing. On a Victorian street in Hinckley, where a run may be a century old and serve several houses, that hour changes what we design.
Access is the other half. A connection into an existing manhole on a tight plot can mean a deep, narrow excavation next to a boundary wall with very little foundation under it, and that is a job for shoring and care rather than speed. Everything is tested before it is covered and you get a drawing of what actually went in the ground.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
