Blocked Drains & Drain Unblocking In Newark-on-Trent

In Newark-on-Trent 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 Nottinghamshire County Council's responsibility — report it to the council. We clear private gullies, channels and manholes anywhere in Newark town centre, Balderton, Fernwood, Hawtonville and the rest of NG24 and NG23.

Newark's old centre is packed tightly. The town and parish contain more than 360 listed buildings, many of them Georgian, from the years when Newark was a staging post on the Great North Road, and later maltings and breweries grew up along the Trent. Behind those frontages, drains from older properties can run through yards and passages, sometimes under a neighbour's building, before they reach the sewer. When one of these runs blocks, the first sign might be water rising in someone else's yard rather than your own.

Much of the cause is the same everywhere. In October 2023 Severn Trent said its waste teams had dealt with 34,580 blockages in the previous year, and that they could have been avoided if wipes, fat and other unflushable items had gone in the bin. Its campaign message is "Be a Binner, Not a Blocker", and it applies equally to a Georgian house off the Market Place and a new home at Fernwood.

We clear blockages with rods, electro-mechanical cleaners or water jetting. If a drain keeps blocking, we'll put a camera through it to find the reason. Clearing a household blockage starts from £120 + VAT.