0800 772 33 99 — we cover WV11 from our base in Castlecroft, Wolverhampton.

Two things, both from the same van: clearing a drain that has blocked, and putting a camera down one to find out why.

What we do in Wednesfield

Blocked drains — cleared with high-pressure jetting rather than rods. Drain unblocking

CCTV drain surveys — graded, MSCC-coded, site plan and full video, report back the same day by NADC-certified surveyors. CCTV drain surveys

No repairs, no excavation — so no reason to find work that isn’t there.

Why people here ask for a survey

A drain that keeps blocking. Repeated blockages are a symptom. The survey finds the root, the stepped joint or the broken section causing them.

Settling who owns what. Shared drainage produces a great many arguments about who pays. A recorded survey turns opinion into evidence.

All the reasons a CCTV survey gets commissioned

Why drains fail in Wednesfield

A drain fails because of what is around it, not just what goes down it. Three things account for most of what we log locally.

Short runs serving more houses than they were built for. The terraces here share short, shallow drain runs that were never intended to serve as many households as they now do.

Ashmore Park and the post-war estates brought pitch fibre – the 1950s-70s bitumen pipe that goes oval rather than cracking, so blockages become gradually more frequent instead of arriving suddenly.

Shallow coal underneath. The South Staffordshire coalfield reaches under the whole area, and settlement over old workings is why displaced joints turn up so regularly here.

All of it shows up on camera and none of it shows from a manhole cover, which is the practical reason a survey is worth more here than an opinion.

Who pays

Shared runs are common in the older streets, and since 2011 anything shared or beyond your boundary has been Severn Trent’s rather than yours.

Areas we cover

Ashmore Park, Fallings Park, Linthouse, New Cross, Wednesfield High Street and Wood End — WV11.

How quickly we can get to Wednesfield

In Wednesfield – WV11 – this is one of the questions we are asked most, and the answer is usually the same across Ashmore Park and Fallings Park.

Ring us and you will get a realistic time before you commit to anything. The variable is what is already booked in, not the distance – Wednesfield is inside our unblocking patch and we are through it constantly.

You speak to the person who will do the work, not a call centre, and we will give you a price on the phone before we come out.

The report, and what is in it

Wednesfield covers a fair spread of housing, from Ashmore Park, Fallings Park, Linthouse, and this applies to most of it.

A drainage site plan showing two foul manholes, rainwater pipes, soil vent pipes and the property boundary, with dimensions

Written to be handed to somebody else – a solicitor, an insurer, a water authority – rather than just read once.

Each section carries a DRB grade and each observation a position in metres and a still image. Our reporting software is WRc-approved and MSCC-compliant, which matters when the report has to satisfy a third party rather than only you.

What it does not contain is a recommendations section quoting for work. We do not carry out repairs, relining or excavation, so we have nothing to sell on the back of what the camera finds. The report sets out what is there and how bad it is; what to do about it is for you and whoever does the work.

Extending a property in Wednesfield

Ashmore Park and Fallings Park and the rest of Wednesfield share the same drainage story, so it is worth telling once. WV11 is the ground being described.

The expensive version of this always runs the same way: plans drawn, quotes accepted, foundations marked out, and then somebody lifts a cover in the middle of where the extension is going.

If you intend to build over a public sewer or lateral drain, or within three metres of one, you need Severn Trent’s agreement. Two things catch people out after the 2011 transfer: the pipe down your own garden may be a public sewer if it serves more than one property, and the length beyond your boundary transferred as well.

They will want to know where the pipe runs, how deep it is, what condition it is in and where the chambers are. That list is a description of a survey with a drainage plan, which is why it is worth doing at design stage rather than after.

Commercial drainage in Wednesfield

In Wednesfield – WV11 – this is one of the questions we are asked most, and the answer is usually the same across Ashmore Park and Fallings Park.

Pubs, takeaways, care homes, schools and industrial units all have the same problem in different proportions: more volume, more grease, and far more cost attached to being shut.

Grease is the recurring one. Any kitchen produces it, and where an interceptor is undersized or unmaintained the run downstream of it silts progressively until it stops.

Wipes in a care or nursing setting behave exactly as they do domestically, but at volume.

Yard and forecourt gullies collect silt, leaves and whatever the site does.

We survey and we clear. We produce the graded, coded report a landlord, insurer or managing agent will want, and we do not quote for repairs, so there is no incentive in what the camera finds.

New build and warranty issues in Wednesfield

We cover WV11, and this comes up often enough on Wednesfield property to be worth setting out properly. Ashmore Park and Fallings Park see it as much as anywhere.

Newer housing is not automatically well drained. Drainage goes in early in a build, gets driven over by everything that follows, and settles for years afterwards.

The common findings on recent estates are debris left in the run from construction, sections laid without consistent fall, and connections made after the original work that were never recorded.

Warranty periods are finite. A survey inside that window is worth considerably more than one outside it, because it turns “something is wrong” into a documented, coded, positioned defect that somebody else has to answer for.

Common questions

The drain is shared with next door — who calls it in? Either of you, but establish first whether it is actually Severn Trent’s. A survey and a site plan settles it.