Drain trouble in Strawberry Hill? We answer 24/7.

Strawberry Hill is the leafy stretch of TW1 between Twickenham and Teddington, named for Horace Walpole’s Gothic house and built up, mostly, in the Edwardian and interwar years. From a drainage point of view it has a particular character: decent-sized semis on generous plots, long private drains running from the back of the house to the sewer, and a shallow gradient down towards the Thames that never quite gives the water the push it needs.

That shallow fall is the local culprit. A clay run with a gentle slope lets grease and silt settle on the invert instead of washing through, and over a few years the bore narrows until one Sunday it closes. The street trees finish the job: the limes and cherries that make Waldegrave Road and its neighbours so pleasant above ground have been exploring the pipe joints beneath them for a century.

We also see a lot of extension work here, with new kitchens and side returns built over original runs that nobody surveyed first. If you are about to build, a camera survey costs a fraction of discovering the problem after the slab is poured. We are based in Twickenham, so Strawberry Hill is a few minutes away at any hour, and a long, lazy drain is something we genuinely enjoy sorting out properly.