Drainage Services in Aldershot

Aldershot was built as a garrison town from the 1850s onwards, and much of its drainage dates from that Victorian military expansion: clay pipework, some combined, laid to serve barracks, terraced housing and the original town grid. It sits on Bagshot sands and gravels, free-draining ground that generally supports soakaways but washes readily into any pipe that has cracked or opened at a joint.

That combination is behind most recurring faults here. Fine sand entering through displaced joints silts the invert and forms voids in the surrounding ground, so blockages in the older parts of North Town and Cargate frequently prove to be structural. The Blackwater valley edge towards Ash Vale and Mytchett brings a shallower water table and groundwater infiltration into open joints, while post-war and modern estates on the town's fringes have clay-to-plastic pipework with separated systems and generally better falls.

For Aldershot we begin with a CCTV drain survey, distinguishing the Victorian garrison-era pipework from later estate drainage, since the two fail in different ways. Jetting clears silt, sand and root blockages, and no-dig lining is well suited to repairs beneath terraced streets, service roads and hard standing where excavation is impractical. Where groundwater infiltration is found we seal or line the affected lengths rather than simply re-clearing them.