Wandsworth's drains, as we know them
Wandsworth, SW18, runs from the Thames at Wandsworth Town up the Wandle valley to Earlsfield and across to the Common, and the drains come in three distinct generations. The Tonsleys and the streets around the Common are Victorian cottages on original clay. Southfields and Earlsfield add Edwardian houses and 1930s blocks. The riverside has filled with large new developments whose drains are plastic, communal and, for the first few years, full of builders’ leftovers.
New-block calls usually come from a managing agent at an awkward hour: the car park gullies or a ground-floor unit backing up because grout, wipes and a traffic cone’s worth of debris have met at the one shallow bend in the communal run. We clear it, film it and hand over a report that makes the snagging conversation with the developer very short.
Old-house calls are about shallow waste runs and shared clay. Victorian cottages have had bathrooms added wherever they fitted, and the long, nearly flat waste pipe to the stack blocks on hair and wipes long before the drain outside does. The Wandle valley is wet ground, the clay has moved, and the camera finds the joint behind a repeat blockage and plots where your pipe becomes a shared lateral drain. We cover Wandsworth, Earlsfield and Southfields around the clock.
Drain problems we sort in Wandsworth
Covering all of Wandsworth
From Wandsworth Town, Southside, the Tonsleys, Wandsworth Common, the River Wandle, Old York Road and across Putney, Earlsfield, Southfields, Battersea, Wimbledon — wherever you are in Wandsworth (SW18), we'll get to you fast.