Drainage Services in Swindon

Swindon grew rapidly from a small hilltop market town into a major railway centre from the mid-19th century, and this history is visible underground in the variety of drainage infrastructure across the town. The old railway village and surrounding Victorian terraces sit on Oxford Clay and Kimmeridge Clay, ground that holds water and shrinks and swells seasonally, and the combined clay sewers from this era have often needed repair as ground movement gradually shifts pipe joints.

The town's substantial post-war and later expansion, including large estates built from the 1960s through to the 1990s, generally used clay and then plastic pipework on separate systems, and these perform reasonably well, though root ingress from mature street trees is a common issue in the older of these estates. More recent developments on Swindon's northern and western edges use modern plastic drainage throughout, with occasional early-life issues linked to construction debris rather than material failure.

Our approach in Swindon begins with a CCTV survey to identify which era of drainage infrastructure a property has and to locate specific problems. High-pressure jetting is effective across the town's mixed clay and plastic pipe stock, particularly for clearing root ingress in the older estates, and where ground movement in the clay soil has caused structural damage, no-dig lining offers a practical repair without extensive excavation across Swindon's varied street layouts.