Drainage Work in Kenilworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage in Kenilworth is unusual in that the foul side is generally straightforward and the surface water side is not.
The reason is plot size. A large villa with a large roof and a large area of hard surfacing produces a great deal of water in a downpour, and on these plots it is frequently dealt with by soakaway rather than by a connection. Soakaways have rules that get ignored: they need to be a sensible distance from the building they serve and from any boundary, they need ground that will actually accept water at a useful rate, and they need sizing against the area draining into them rather than against what will fit in the hole.
Trees complicate it further here. A soakaway sited under a mature canopy is both a root problem and a performance problem, and on a plot where every tree is protected the siting is a design decision made early rather than a hole dug where there is space.
A percolation test costs very little against a soakaway that fills in October and stays full until spring, and we test rather than assume.
Where a run belongs to the water company, building over or near it needs consent 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 Warwick District 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 Kenilworth street to the next.
Every connection is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep. On a large plot with a soakaway that drawing matters more than usual, because the next owner will have no other way of knowing where it is or what it serves.
Where a run crosses a neighbour’s ground the permissions are agreed before the spade goes in. On the older plots at the castle end shared runs are common and worth establishing before a design is settled.
Under mature trees, gullies and rainwater shoes block with leaf litter and silt rather than with anything dramatic, and they do it every year. Leaf guards and a rodding point in the right place cost very little at installation and save a call out every autumn, so we design them in rather than leaving them to be retrofitted badly later.
Part of our wider building work in Kenilworth.
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.
