Drainage Services in Liskeard

Liskeard stands on a ridge of granite and slate between the valleys of the East and West Looe rivers, and its historic market town core has Victorian clay drainage, much of it combined, laid over sloping ground that gives generally good natural drainage but can mean fast surface water flow in heavy storms. Later housing on the town's edges uses separate foul and surface water systems.

The surrounding parishes, including St Cleer, Pensilva and Duloe, are part of east Cornwall's granite and farmland hinterland, where many properties, particularly older farmhouses and converted barns, rely on septic tanks or small package treatment plants rather than mains drainage. Mining history in the area around St Cleer has occasionally left variable ground conditions that can affect older pipe runs.

We survey with CCTV to establish pipe condition and route before recommending work, since the ridge-top town's drainage can have unexpected routing down to the valley sewers. High-pressure jetting clears silt from the fast-flowing surface water typical of this sloping terrain, no-dig relining repairs displaced clay pipework, and we carry out percolation testing for the many rural septic tank systems in the surrounding villages.