Blocked Drains & Drain Unblocking In Market Harborough

In Market Harborough the public sewers belong to Anglian 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 Anglian Water on 03457 145 145. 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 Market Harborough, Little Bowden, Great Bowden, Lubenham and the rest of LE16.

The Leicestershire strategic flood risk assessment is blunt about Market Harborough: drainage lacking the capacity to cope with heavy rain has been a historic and recurring problem, and town-centre flooding is reported fairly regularly. Anglian Water finished a flood alleviation scheme for Coventry Road in 2016, and the county council carried out formal flood investigations into the town centre (July 2013) and Rugby Close (December 2013).

In a town where the public system is known to run full, the private part needs to carry its own load. In many older houses roof water shares a drain with the toilet and kitchen, so a blocked or silted gully at the foot of a downpipe, or a partly blocked run, reaches its limit much sooner in a storm. Keeping those clear is one of the few parts of flood resilience that is entirely in the homeowner's hands.

For everyday blockages we rod or jet the affected run, then run water through to prove it's clear. If the same run blocks again, we recommend a camera survey rather than repeat visits. Blocked drain clearance starts from £120 + VAT.