0800 772 33 99 — we cover WV7 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 Albrighton

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 septic tank or treatment plant. The run between the house and the tank fails like any other pipe, and it is worth ruling that out before anyone talks about replacing the tank.

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.

All the reasons a CCTV survey gets commissioned

Why drains fail in Albrighton

Most recurring problems here trace back to ground conditions rather than to anything that was put down the drain. This is why.

A Shropshire village with a mixed housing stock. Older cottages and farm properties in the core, then substantial modern development around it – much of it associated with nearby Cosford. That gives Victorian clay and modern PVC within a few hundred metres, failing in completely different ways.

Free-draining sandstone ground. Soakaways work here, which is why so many properties use them. The same permeability lets fine material migrate out of a defective joint until the pipe settles into the void.

Off-mains drainage on the outlying properties. Septic tanks and treatment plants are common towards Boningale, Beckbury and Ryton, and that whole system is the owner’s responsibility.

None of that is visible from the surface, which is why a camera settles in an hour what guesswork will not settle at all.

Who pays

On the public sewer the 2011 transfer applies as elsewhere. On private drainage, all of it is yours.

A survey in Albrighton

A WV7 property in Albrighton – surveyed and graded A, with no structural defects found. A clean survey is a real outcome rather than a wasted fee, and the recording is there if the question ever arises again.

Read the Albrighton case study

Areas we cover

Albrighton, Beckbury, Boningale, Cosford, Donington and Ryton — WV7.

Surface water, foul, or both?

Around Albrighton, Beckbury, Boningale the housing is old enough for this to matter, and WV7 is where we see it most.

CCTV view inside a drain showing heavy orange and dark staining across the pipe wall

Worth knowing which system you are dealing with, because it changes who is responsible and what a blockage means.

Foul takes waste from the house. Surface water takes rain from roofs and hard standing. Combined takes both, which is what a great deal of older Albrighton drainage does.

A gully overflowing only in heavy rain points at the surface water side, or at a combined run that has lost capacity. A toilet backing up in dry weather points at the foul side. Our reports record the use of every section, because a wrong connection – foul into surface water, or the reverse – is a finding in its own right.

Recently built property in Albrighton

In Albrighton – WV7 – this is one of the questions we are asked most, and the answer is usually the same across Albrighton and Beckbury.

We survey a good deal of newer housing, and the reason is usually a warranty deadline rather than a blockage.

Drainage laid during construction is not always laid correctly, and the problems tend to surface once the ground has settled – by which time the question is whether it is still covered. A graded report with each observation positioned in metres is what makes that conversation possible.

The report, and what is in it

We cover WV7, and this comes up often enough on Albrighton property to be worth setting out properly. Albrighton and Beckbury see it as much as anywhere.

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.

What it costs

Albrighton is consistent enough, from Beckbury outwards, to describe in one go. WV7 is the area meant.

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.

Common questions

Do you cover the villages as well as the towns? Yes – Albrighton is about ten minutes from our base, and the outlying properties are often the ones most in need of a proper record of their drainage.