Drainage Services in Kettering, Northamptonshire

Kettering grew up on the boot and shoe trade, and it shows in the town's housing — a good stretch of centrally-located period property, much of it built around the original shoe factories and workers' cottages of the 19th and early 20th centuries. That older stock, alongside the newer estates that have spread out from the town, means our engineers see a real mix of jobs here: ageing clay drainage in the tight terraced streets near the station, more recent PVC systems on the modern developments at Cranford Road and Grange Park, and everything in between.

We cover the full NN14, NN15 and NN16 postcode districts, which takes in central Kettering along with Barton Seagrave, Burton Latimer, Rothwell, Desborough, Broughton and Cranford. Because we're Northamptonshire-based, we're rarely more than 15–20 minutes from anywhere in the town — which matters when a downstairs toilet is overflowing on a Sunday morning or a business needs a drain cleared before the doors open.

The older housing stock in Kettering — particularly the Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Rockingham Road, Stamford Road and the streets between the town centre and the station — was built with shared-run drainage that connects multiple properties into a single sewer. That's fine when it all flows, but a blockage in one property often surfaces in the neighbour's garden first, which makes a CCTV survey a much more sensible starting point than blindly digging. It's the sort of local drainage history that only shows up once you've worked in the town for a while.

Newer developments — Cranford Road, Grange Park, the Hanwood Park area — don't have the same aged-clay issues, but we still see plenty of blockages here: fats, wipes and root ingress from the fast-growing landscaping around the newer estates. Whatever the age of the property, the same fixed call-out fee covers the first hour on site, and we always quote before any further work.