Hampton's drains, as we know them
Hampton has water history like nowhere else on our patch. The great Victorian waterworks along the riverfront supplied London its drinking water, and the streets of cottages built around them in the 1850s to 1890s got, naturally, Victorian drains. Parts of Hampton village and Hampton Hill are running waste through some of the oldest clay pipework we ever put a camera into, and honestly, the footage is beautiful. Hand-laid brick inspection chambers turn up under Hampton gardens like little cathedrals. (We photograph them. For the archive. It’s normal.)
Age brings character, and character brings blockages: lime-mortar joints that roots walk straight through, gentle sags where 150 years of ground settlement has let a pipe dip and collect grease, and the odd surprise where a long-gone builder connected something creatively. Between the cottages, the between-wars semis towards Hampton Hill add the usual extension-overload problem, kitchens working drains that were sized for a scullery.
The Bushy Park side contributes magnificent trees and their equally magnificent root systems. All of TW12, village to Hampton Wick borders, is covered 24/7. Old pipes deserve engineers who actually like them, and that is, without competition, us.
Drain problems we sort in Hampton
Covering all of Hampton
From Hampton Court (up the road), Bushy Park, Hampton village, the waterworks riverfront and across Hampton Hill, Hampton Wick, Teddington, Sunbury — wherever you are in Hampton (TW12), we'll get to you fast.