Whether you have a non-urgent or emergency drainage issue at your property in the Ramsgate area, it’s understandable to fear the worst. While many problems we handle involve no-dig solutions – such as clearing blocked drains, drain lining, drain repairs, gutter cleaning homebuyer drain surveys and CCTV drain surveys – some of the more extreme require excavations. Because excavating involves digging, it comes with a longer duration, a higher cost and greater disruption. In addition, you may even face the prospect of new drain installations when it’s all over.
Sometimes, however, excavating is the only way for us to undertake the required work on your system. But you can rest assured, BP Drains Ltd only ever performs excavations as a last resort for the most serious situations.
Our team assesses the need for excavations upon arriving at your property in Ramsgate and inspecting the drainage system. Of course, situations vary. But we will likely undertake a CCTV drain survey to uncover the problem.
If the issue is relatively minor, like a slow-draining sink or blocked drain, we typically perform no-dig drain repairs. Common solutions include drain descaling and tree root removal to clear blockage hazards, as well as drain lining to fix leaking or burst pipes.
Unlike installing new drains, no-dig services benefit everyone. They’re clean, tidy, and fast. They don’t disturb surfaces and we keep overall disruption to an absolute minimum.
Our gutter debris removal, gutter cleaning and homebuyer drain surveys and general house drain inspections are also non-invasive.
With some emergency drainage situations, we encounter problems that require excavations. When this happens, you can be sure that there simply isn’t another solution.
For example, if large sections of your drain have collapsed, we can’t carry out drain lining or similar drain repairs. Our Ramsgate-based team needs to get down to system level and work manually.
Likewise, if you don’t perform tree root removal soon enough, you may also need a drain excavation service. If roots penetrate your pipes and grow, they can crack or dislodge them. We simply can’t fix this from the surface.
This is also why regular maintenance checks – including CCTV drainage surveys to avoid blocked drains – are so vital.
Earth subsidence is another unfortunate scenario that could play out at your premises. While tree roots are sometimes involved in this process, they are by no means the only cause. There are numerous reasons behind earth movement, but whichever one you have the misfortune of experiencing, your drainage system will likely disconnect in places.
Such damage requires excavations too, and possibly the installation of a brand-new system.
At BP Drains Ltd, we provide a complete range of drainage services in Ramsgate and the surrounding areas. This includes:
We’re always here to help.
While we may be based in Ramsgate, we also serve customers in Ashford, Broadstairs, Canterbury, Dover, Faversham, Folkestone, Herne Bay, Margate, Thanet and Whitstable.
