0800 772 33 99 — we cover DY6 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 Kingswinford

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

Buying the property. A standard structural survey does not go underground. This one does, and the report is written so it can go straight to a solicitor or be used to renegotiate.

No record of where anything runs. For a good many properties here the site plan the survey produces is the only accurate drawing of the drainage that has ever existed.

All the reasons a CCTV survey gets commissioned

Why drains fail in Kingswinford

Ground conditions decide what fails in a drain and how often, and they vary street by street. Here is what we are working with.

Three eras of pipe within a few streets. Victorian clay, 1930s clay and post-war pitch fibre all appear here, sometimes on adjacent roads. What is true of one property is frequently not true of its neighbour.

Sandstone to the west. Towards Wall Heath and Hinksford the ground is Triassic sandstone and drains freely. Good for soakaways; less good for a defective joint, because fines migrate out and the pipe drops into the void.

Coal and fireclay to the east. The Pensnett side was worked for both, and ground movement over the old workings pulls joints apart.

Which is why we would rather put a camera down the run than tell you what is probably wrong with it.

Who pays

Since 2011 Severn Trent has owned shared drainage and everything past your boundary – relevant on the interwar semis, where paired properties often share a run.

Areas we cover

Bromley, Hinksford, Kingswinford, Wall Heath, Wordsley and Word Hill — DY6.

Same-day reporting in Kingswinford

Kingswinford covers a fair spread of housing, from Bromley, Hinksford, Kingswinford, and this applies to most of it.

The survey is not much use to you sitting on a memory card.

You get the graded report, the coded observations, the still images and the site plan back the same day, which is usually what makes it worth booking in the first place – particularly when it is holding up a purchase or an application.

Recurring blockages: the cheaper order of operations

What holds for Bromley and Hinksford holds across the rest of Kingswinford. DY6 is the postcode district involved.

CCTV view inside a drain showing hard deposits built up on the pipe wall around a joint

Clearing the same Kingswinford drain every few months costs more over a year than finding out why once.

Repeat blockages in one spot almost always have a physical cause. A displaced joint leaves a step for solids to catch on. A length that has lost its fall holds water, and solids drop out of suspension in the flat. A crushed section under a drive does the same.

So: jet it properly rather than rod it, put the camera down while the bore is clear, and get the defect positioned in metres and coded. “There is a problem out the back” is not something anyone can quote against. “Joint displaced medium at 14.2 m, severity 3” is.

What it costs

You get a price on the phone before we come out, so there are no surprises when we arrive.

We do not carry out repairs, relining or excavation. That is worth knowing when you are comparing quotes, because most firms who survey your drains also quote for fixing them

and when a survey says a section is failing, they are the ones who benefit. We are

not, which is also why we are comfortable telling you when a survey comes back clean.

If the blockage turns out to be on Severn Trent’s side of the boundary, we will say so rather than invoice you for it.

How quickly we can get to Kingswinford

Kingswinford covers a fair spread of housing, from Bromley, Hinksford, Kingswinford, and this applies to most of it.

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 – Kingswinford 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.

Common questions

How do I know which era my drains are? The camera tells you in the first few metres. Clay, pitch fibre and PVC look completely different, and which one you have changes what any repair would cost.