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Bournville is a largely residential area sitting in the BS22 postcode, about three miles east of central Weston-super-Mare. It's predominantly 1970s and 1980s semi-detached and detached houses, with some later infill estates added over the decades. The drainage jobs we pick up here tend to be blocked drains, slow-draining gullies and the occasional collapsed lateral caused by ground movement under older concrete drives. It's steady suburban work rather than anything exotic.

We usually come in off the A371 or cut through from the Worle direction depending on traffic. The housing stock sits on a relatively flat plain and the pipework is mostly uPVC from the original builds, though you do find older clay connections where extensions or garages have been tied into existing runs. Shared surface water gullies are a recurring issue on the tighter cul-de-sac layouts, and mature garden trees, particularly willows and sycamores on back boundaries, have a habit of sending roots straight into pipe joints. That's probably the most consistent headache we deal with in Bournville.

Most common Bournville jobs

• Clearing root ingress from lateral drains running under rear gardens
• Blocked kitchen and bathroom stacks on 1970s semis where fats have built up in low-gradient pipework
• CCTV survey before a house sale, buyers' solicitors are asking for these more often now
• Replacing a cracked clay-to-uPVC junction that's let in silt and causing repeated blockages
• Surface water gully clearance on driveways and shared estate paths after leaf fall

Services we run from Bournville