Inspecting an open external gully drain with new drain sections ready

Beyond the blockage

Drainage services in Warwick

Repairs, installation and proper investigations for the drains you can't see. Smells, soggy patches and drains that block on repeat all have findable causes.

Drainage work we take on

  • Drain repairs: cracked, leaking or displaced pipes
  • Gully and drain cover replacement
  • New drainage runs for extensions and garden rooms
  • Soil pipe repairs and replacements
  • Recurring-blockage investigations
  • Smelly drain diagnosis, which is nearly always simpler than people fear

This page is the sibling of blocked drains. That one's for "water isn't going down." This one's for everything else your drains do to annoy you.

The drain that keeps blocking

Clearing the same drain three times a year isn't maintenance, it's a subscription. Somewhere in that pipe there's a reason: a joint that's dropped and now catches everything passing, a crack letting roots in, or a run laid with barely any fall by someone in a hurry decades ago. Find the reason once and the blockages stop.

That's the investigation work we like: methodical, a bit detective-ish, and it ends with you never needing us for that drain again.

Smells, damp patches and other mysteries

A drain smell with no blockage is usually a dried-out trap. The water in a U-bend is what seals sewer air out of your house, and an unused shower or outside gully lets it evaporate. Jug of water, smell gone. Genuinely, try that before calling anyone.

A soggy patch of lawn that never dries, though, or a new damp line on a wall near a drain run? That's worth a look sooner rather than later. A leaking underground drain undermines slowly and invisibly, and the repair grows with the wait. Minor damage can sometimes be patch-lined from inside the pipe without digging; collapsed sections can't, but a proper diagnosis first means one small hole instead of an exploratory trench through the flowerbeds.

Questions

Drainage questions

The drain smells but isn't blocked.

Dried-out trap, nine times out of ten. Pour a jug of water down every drain in the house, including the ones you never use. Smell still there next day? Now it's worth a call.

Can you fix a drain without digging up the garden?

Sometimes, with patch lining from inside the pipe. Depends entirely on the damage, which is why we diagnose before quoting. When digging is unavoidable, it's one targeted hole, not a trench of hope.

Building an extension. When do drains come in?

At the design stage, please. Moving a soil stack on paper costs nothing. Moving it after the foundations are poured costs plenty. We work alongside your builder and handle Building Regs compliance for the drainage.

Stop re-clearing the same drain

One investigation beats a lifetime of call-outs. Let's find what's actually wrong down there.

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