Our Drainage Services

A lot of what we deal with in Newcastle comes down to the city's older housing stock. Jesmond, Heaton, and the West End have street after street of Tyneside flats — the distinctive upstairs-downstairs terraces built with shared drainage runs — and those original clay and cast iron pipes are now well over a century old. Shared drainage between neighbouring properties means a single blocked or cracked pipe can affect more than one household, which is why our engineers treat these older terraces differently to a standalone modern house.

Cross the Tyne into Gateshead and the picture changes again, with redevelopment around the Quayside and BALTIC sitting alongside older industrial-era infrastructure. Out along the coast at South Shields, Whitley Bay, and Tynemouth, sandy coastal ground and a high water table create their own drainage pressures, particularly on the Edwardian seafront properties common in Whitley Bay. Inland, Cramlington's status as a planned post-war new town means a much more uniform, modern drainage network, where age-related wear is less of an issue than in the city centre. Whatever the location, we bring CCTV surveys, high-pressure jetting, and repair capability suited to the specific pipework we find, not a one-size-fits-all approach.