Drainage Services in Corby, Northamptonshire

Corby is a different proposition from most of the towns we cover — designated a New Town in 1950 and built up rapidly around the steelworks that drew workers down from central Scotland in such numbers that the town still has one of the strongest Scottish identities south of the border. The drainage inheritance is different too: instead of layered Victorian and Edwardian pipework, Corby's housing is overwhelmingly 1950s–1970s, with more recent expansion around Oakley Vale, Priors Hall and Little Stanion pushing the town's footprint outward.

We cover the full NN17 and NN18 postcode districts, taking in the core estates — Kingswood, Danesholme, Studfall, Beanfield, Hazel Leys — along with the newer edges at Oakley Vale, Priors Hall Park, Weldon and Little Stanion. Because we're Northamptonshire-based, we're inside 20 minutes of anywhere in the town at any time of day.

That post-war housing brings a very specific pattern of drainage work. Many of the original council-built estates share long back-run sewers that connect a whole row of gardens into a single downstream chamber — perfectly serviceable when clear, but a nightmare to trace by eye when one property in the run starts backing up. CCTV surveys pay for themselves quickly here because the alternative — lifting multiple covers and guessing — costs far more in time than the survey does. We also see a fair amount of clay-to-plastic joint failure where estates have been part-relined over the decades.

The newer estates — Oakley Vale, Priors Hall, Little Stanion — are modern PVC and behave predictably, but they aren't immune. Wipes and fat still block modern pipework just as reliably as they block old clay, and the fast landscape growth on newer estates means root ingress can appear quicker than you'd expect. Whatever's causing the blockage, our fixed call-out fee covers the first hour on site, with no hidden costs and further work quoted before we start.