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Coates is a small Cotswold village sitting in the GL7 postcode, roughly 3 miles west of central Cirencester along the A433 corridor. The housing is almost entirely older village stock, stone-built cottages and farmhouses with a handful of more modern infill properties. That mix throws up a predictable set of drainage problems: ageing clay pipework, shallow-laid runs under stone flags, and field drainage that interacts badly with domestic systems when the ground is saturated.

We come in off the A433 through Tarlton Road direction, which gives you a sense of how rural the setting is before you've even arrived. Most of the pipework in the older properties dates back decades and was laid in short-jointed clay sections that tree roots find irresistible. There are mature trees throughout the village, and root ingress into drain joints is genuinely the most common thing we find on CCTV surveys here. Low-lying ground near the Thames and Severn Canal corridor doesn't help either, and surface water backing up in heavy rain is a recurring complaint from residents in the lower-lying plots.

Most common Coates jobs

• Root ingress cleared from clay drain runs under cottage gardens
• CCTV surveys on older stone-built properties with no drainage records
• Blocked surface water drains overwhelmed during prolonged wet spells
• Cracked or displaced clay pipe joints repaired by patch lining
• Field drainage interfering with residential soakaways after heavy rain
• Interceptor trap clearance on older properties still fitted with them

Services we run from Coates