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Sandford is a compact village in the Mendip foothills, sitting in postcode BS25 about six miles from central Weston-super-Mare, a drive of roughly fifteen minutes on the A371. The housing is a genuine mix: older stone-built cottages and period semis alongside post-war bungalows and small 1980s infill estates. We cover the whole village and get called out mainly for blocked drains, slow-running toilets and the kind of root ingress you'd expect from mature hedgerow trees growing right next to ageing clay pipework.

We come in through Churchill and drop down into Sandford on the A368 corridor. The older parts of the village have clay drainage runs that date back decades, and tree roots from mature gardens and boundary hedges work their way into pipe joints over time. The newer bungalow plots have plastic pipework that's generally more straightforward, but shared sewer connections between neighbouring properties cause confusion when a blockage hits. Sandford's slightly lower-lying pockets can hold surface water after heavy rain, which pushes silt into gullies faster than most people expect.

Most common Sandford jobs

• Clearing root-blocked clay drains on older cottage properties
• CCTV surveys to trace shared sewer runs between semi-detached pairs
• Unblocking gullies and yard drains after wet weather brings silt down from surrounding fields
• Slow-draining kitchen sinks caused by grease build-up in undersized pipework
• Locating and repairing cracked clay joints where tree roots have forced an entry

Services we run from Sandford