Drainage
Surface Water Drainage in Kent
Channel drains, gullies and land drains laid to proper falls so rainwater leaves your surfaces quickly.
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- 20+ Years’ Experience
- Trusted & Friendly Team
- Full Project Management
- Competitive Pricing
Groundworks
Drainage for Drives, Patios & Yards
Standing water on paving freezes, stains and finds its way underneath, where it softens the sub-base and lets the surface sink. Every surface we lay has a fall built in, leading water to a linear channel drain across the bottom of a drive or a gully at its low point.
Channels are set in a concrete bed and haunch so they cannot shift, and the grating is chosen for the traffic it will carry, from a garden path up to loaded vehicles in a yard.
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Our Experience with Drainage
We are a family run groundworks business based in Staplehurst, and we bring over 20 years of experience to every drainage job across Kent, East and West Sussex and south-east London.
The same small, friendly team surveys the job, prepares the ground and finishes the surface, so you deal with the people doing the work from the first visit to the final sweep.
We have worked on behalf of Kent County Council and utility companies, our team is registered with the Street Works Qualifications Register, and we are approved under the Trading Standards Buy With Confidence scheme.
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Drainage
Land Drains for Wet Gardens
Lawns and borders that stay waterlogged usually sit on clay. A land drain, sometimes called a French drain, is a trench with a perforated pipe bedded in clean stone and wrapped in geotextile, laid to a fall so it gathers ground water and carries it away to a soakaway or ditch.
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Where the Water Goes
Collected surface water goes to a soakaway on your land wherever the ground allows, which is the first choice under Building Regulations. We build soakaways ourselves, so the drains and the soakaway are designed together and sized for each other.
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What’s Included
- Survey of the levels and where water collects
- Linear channel drains with gratings rated for the traffic
- Gullies and silt traps
- Perforated land drains in stone and membrane
- Connection to a new or existing soakaway
- Making good the surface afterwards
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What Affects the Price
Every quote is written after a visit, so you know what the price covers before any work is booked.
- 01Length of drain runs and depth of trench
- 02Type and load rating of the channel grating
- 03Whether a soakaway is needed or one already exists
- 04The surface to cut through and reinstate
- 05Ground conditions and access
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Free site visits and written quotes across Kent and the South East.
How the Job Runs
Your Drainage Step by Step
Survey
We check the falls, find where water sits and decide where it can be collected and sent.
Design
Drain routes, gullies and the soakaway are planned together, with falls set so water keeps moving.
Install
Trenches are dug, pipes and channels bedded and haunched, and the runs checked for fall before backfilling.
Reinstate
Paving, tarmac or turf is put back over the trenches and the system is run with water to check it.
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Why Choose Us
Why Customers Choose Us
Domestic driveways or council-standard reinstatement, the same team and the same standards on every job.
20+
Years’ Experience
Over two decades of getting the sub-base, levels and drainage right first time.
Accredited Staff
SWQR registered for highway work and approved under Trading Standards Buy With Confidence.
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Free, No-Obligation Quote
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Tell us what you have in mind and where the job is. We’ll come back to you to talk it through and arrange a visit to measure up.
- A site visit to measure up and check levels
- A written price before anything is booked
- Street works registered, Trading Standards approved
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We reply to every enquiry, usually the same working day.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Drainage: Your Questions Answered
Why does water pool on my drive?
Can you add drainage to an existing driveway?
Where can driveway water go?
Do you install channel drains?
Do you clear and repair existing drains?
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Where We Work
Where We Work
From our base in Staplehurst we cover the whole of Kent and reach into East Sussex, West Sussex and south-east London.