CCTV Drain Surveys In Leicester

Buying a home in Leicester? A pre-purchase survey tells you whether the drains are sound before you exchange — particularly worthwhile on older properties with clay pipes, homes with mature trees nearby, or houses that have been extended. See our homebuyer drain surveys.

Planning an extension in Leicester? If you're building within 3 metres of a public sewer, Severn Trent may require a build-over agreement, and a CCTV survey of the sewer is usually part of a formal application. We can survey the pipe before you finalise your plans.

A great deal of Leicester's drainage dates from its rapid late-Victorian growth. Abbey Pumping Station was built by the Corporation in 1891 to lift the town's sewage to the farm at Beaumont Leys, and around 130 miles of new sewers had been laid by 1912. Houses of that period were connected by their own clay drains, and a pipe that has been in the ground for more than a century can hide cracks and open joints for years before anything shows indoors.

What sits around those pipes varies. The British Geological Survey's explanation of the Leicester district notes that made ground is "most extensive, if not ubiquitous" in the city's main residential areas, lying over glacial till, Soar terrace gravels and river alluvium. Mixed, filled ground settles unevenly, and on camera that shows up as displaced joints, sags where water lies, and fractured sockets.

Our surveys start from £149 + VAT. You receive WRc/MSCC5-coded condition grading, a PDF condition report, the survey footage with stills of every defect, and drain mapping — a plan of the runs showing where each pipe goes and how deep it is.