Drainage Work in Rugby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Drainage in Rugby splits neatly by the age of the street. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces close to the centre were built with clay runs and, in many cases, a drain shared between several houses, which changes both who is responsible for a repair and how we approach it. The interwar and post-war housing further out is more likely to be pitch fibre or early plastic, with a private run to the boundary.
Before we quote anything beyond a straightforward repair we want to see the run rather than guess at it, because a collapsed section and a blocked section look identical from the top and cost very different amounts to put right.
What we survey, dig and reinstate is set out on our drainage work page.
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 Rugby 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 Rugby street to the next.
Drainage alterations are a Building Regulations matter rather than a planning one in almost every case, and we arrange the inspections and see them signed off.
Where a new connection is made to a public sewer, or a build goes over or near one, that is a separate consent from the water authority and not something to leave to the end of the job.
Drainage is the trade where access decides the price more than the pipe does. A run under a driveway is a day. The same run under a conservatory, a patio or a rear extension is a different job, because reinstatement is most of the cost.
On the terraces the rear gardens are usually reached through the house or a shared entry, so any excavation means barrowing spoil out the way we came in. We board and sheet the route, and we plan the spoil out before we break ground rather than discovering it on the day.
Part of our wider building work in Rugby.
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.
