Brentford's drains, as we know them
Brentford is the newest drainage on our patch and, against every stereotype in this trade, new does not mean trouble-free. The waterside towers and the stadium-quarter developments have filled TW8 with thousands of modern flats, and modern flats mean communal soil stacks: one vertical pipe serving ten kitchens and ten bathrooms. One resident’s “flushable” wipes plus one ground-floor bend equals a blockage with a distribution list. We clear these runs weekly, and we can tell a management company exactly which floor to send the polite newsletter to. (The camera doesn’t lie. It’s one of the many things we love about it.)
Basement car parks and undercrofts add pumped drainage and macerators to the mix, kit that older TW postcodes simply doesn’t have, and which fails at apartment-block scale when it fails. We survey and jet communal systems for Brentford’s block managers on a planned schedule, which is dramatically cheaper than the emergency version of the same visit.
Old Brentford is still here too: the terraces off the High Street and around Boston Manor run on Victorian clay, and the canal and Brent keep the ground interesting where old pipes meet new developments. Flat, house or whole block, TW8 is covered 24/7, one number, prices agreed before we start.
Drain problems we sort in Brentford
Covering all of Brentford
From Brentford waterside, the Grand Union Canal, Gtech Community Stadium, Boston Manor Park and across Isleworth, Kew (over the bridge), Chiswick, Osterley — wherever you are in Brentford (TW8), we'll get to you fast.