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Ealing, W5 and W13, grew as the Queen of the Suburbs in the late Victorian and Edwardian years: tall red-brick villas around the Common and Haven Green, long terraces off the Uxbridge Road, 1930s semis in Northfields and West Ealing, and lately a ring of new apartment blocks around the Broadway. The ground is heavy London clay, which swells and shrinks with the seasons and has spent a century easing Ealing’s pipe joints apart.

The villas are the classic call. Big gardens, long private runs, and the plane and lime trees that line every avenue sending roots into every opened joint. A drain that blocks every year is telling you about a specific joint and a specific tree, and the camera names both. Clearing buys a season; cutting the roots and lining the joint buys a generation.

Northfields and West Ealing are the interwar story: shallow runs under long gardens, grease and silt settling on a gentle fall, and extensions going over the run without anyone looking first. We survey before building work, jet rather than rod on anything that has blocked twice, and reline rather than dig wherever a garden or a tiled path is in the way. We cover Ealing, Northfields and Hanwell at any hour from the Brentford side of our patch.