Drainage Services in Roath

Roath is one of Cardiff's largest Victorian and Edwardian residential areas, built up rapidly in terraces around the turn of the twentieth century on clay drainage laid to combined-sewer standards of the period. The lake at Roath Park and the mature street trees throughout the area, particularly around Penylan and the park itself, mean root ingress into old clay pipes is a common cause of blockages in this district.

Ground here is generally clay over river terrace deposits from the nearby Rhymney and Roath Brook systems, and the dense terraced layout means many properties share drainage runs to the rear or under narrow access lanes, which can complicate identifying whose responsibility a blockage falls under. Cathays, with its student housing turnover, sees particular pressure on older drains from misuse as well as age.

Our CCTV surveys map these shared and sometimes complex terraced drainage runs before we recommend any work. High-pressure jetting clears the root ingress that Roath's mature trees commonly cause in clay pipework, and no-dig relining repairs cracked or displaced sections without digging up the narrow rear gardens and access lanes typical of this part of the city.