CCTV Drain Surveys In Mansfield

Buying a home in Mansfield? 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 Mansfield? 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.

Mansfield sits on a geological boundary. The district's flood risk assessment, which draws on British Geological Survey mapping, puts the western half of the town on the dolomitic Magnesian Limestone and the eastern half on the Sherwood Sandstone Group. There's also a strip of alluvium along the River Maun. According to the BGS, the Sherwood Sandstone ranges from dense sand to extremely weak sandstone depending on how weathered it is. That's worth bearing in mind when a camera finds a joint that has been leaking into the ground for years, because it can help explain why two similar pipes in different parts of town have aged so differently.

Surveys are also the key to extension plans. Severn Trent's simpler self-certification route for building over a sewer only applies where the pipe is clay or plastic. A pitch-fibre sewer means a formal application, which asks for a CCTV survey before and after the build or for the pipe under the footprint to be replaced.

Every survey we carry out comes with WRc/MSCC5-coded condition grading, a PDF condition report, the survey footage and stills, and a drain map showing each run and chamber. A Mansfield survey starts from £149 + VAT.