Drainage Work in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage in Market Harborough raises one issue that connects directly to the town’s boundary rules, and several that do not.
The connected one is surface water at the front. Where a drive is being resurfaced or widened, the water has to go somewhere, and the usual answer, draining it to a soft area within your own boundary, can run straight into the Article 4 controls in Little Bowden if it involves altering the front boundary to do it. Getting the drainage design and the boundary question answered together, rather than sequentially, saves a second application.
The unconnected ones are the familiar ones. Where a public sewer runs under an extension footprint, building over or close to it needs consent granted before the concrete goes in, and since 2011 a great many runs householders assumed were their own have belonged to the water company. It is a routine application and a serious problem to be caught without.
Soakaways need ground that will actually accept water at a useful rate, which is a percolation test rather than an assumption. A soakaway that fills in October and stays full until spring takes the new patio with it.
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 Harborough 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 Market Harborough street to the next.
Every connection is tested before it is covered and recorded on a drawing you keep, because the next person to open the ground deserves better than guesswork.
A camera survey before designing over an existing run costs about an hour and regularly changes the design, which makes it the cheapest hour on the project rather than an optional extra.
Where a run crosses a neighbour’s ground, common on the older plots near the centre, the permissions are agreed before the spade goes in rather than after.
There is a further point specific to the older streets here. Rainwater from a front roof slope frequently discharges into a gully at the edge of the public footway, and the ownership of that gully is often unclear after a century of alterations. Before altering anything at the front we establish what belongs to whom, because getting it wrong turns a small drainage job into a highways matter with the county. Where a permeable driveway surface is being used to satisfy the front hard surfacing rule, the sub-base underneath has to be designed to hold water as well, which is a specification question rather than a choice of block.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
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