Blocked Drains & Drain Unblocking In Loughborough

In Loughborough the public sewers belong to Severn Trent Water. If the blockage is in a pipe you share with a neighbour, or beyond your boundary, it's normally the water company's to clear — call Severn Trent on 0800 783 4444. If it's in a drain that serves only your property, it's yours, and that's where we come in. Our engineer finds the blockage first and tells you whose it is before any work starts.

Water pooling around a road gully outside? Road drains are Leicestershire County Council's responsibility — report it to the council. We clear private gullies, channels and manholes anywhere in Loughborough town centre, Shelthorpe, Thorpe Acre, Dishley and the rest of LE11 and LE12.

When Storm Henk arrived in January 2024, Leicestershire County Council listed Loughborough among the worst-hit places in the county, with roughly 100 homes and businesses flooded across Charnwood. Charnwood Borough Council names six brooks that run through the town to the Soar as main rivers: Black Brook, Willow Brook, Burleigh Brook, Wood Brook, Grammar School Brook and Hermitage Brook.

Those brooks affect how drains behave. Surface water pipes empty into watercourses, and when a brook is running high the outfall can be under water, so flow backs up the system instead of leaving it. A proposed Loughborough flood scheme is aimed at around 1,000 homes at risk from Wood Brook, Burleigh Brook and the canal, which gives a sense of how many streets sit close to that problem.

So after prolonged rain, a slow drain in Loughborough may be a drowned outfall rather than a blockage. We check the chambers before doing anything, and if the water is simply waiting for the brook to drop, we'll say so rather than charge you to jet a clear pipe. Real blockages — wipes, fat, roots or silt — are cleared from £120 + VAT.