Local plumbing and drainage engineers across Banbury and surrounding areas. Send a request online and we pass it to a local engineer.
We help homes and businesses across Banbury with blocked drains, leaks and boiler work. Send a request online and we pass it to a local engineer. Because every job is different, the engineer talks through the work with you before it starts.
We cover the common plumbing and drainage needs in Banbury. In addition, local engineers can handle specialist work such as CCTV surveys and boiler servicing.
Our engineers cover Banbury and the wider Oxfordshire area. They attend homes and businesses across the town, while nearby streets and villages are covered too.
Banbury is the main market town of North Oxfordshire. Its older streets, such as Parsons Street and the High Street, hold homes from the 16th and 17th centuries. Many of these still have old lead or cast iron pipes, and builders have changed their drains many times.
Under the roads, the Victorian sewers laid when the railway came still do much of the work. Some of this pipework is well over 130 years old. As a result, town centre drains can silt up, crack or shift with age.
The Oxford Canal runs through the middle of town, so the water table is high in places. Homes near Grimsbury and Spiceball Park can get damp or groundwater in cracked pipes. Clay soil adds to the strain, because it swells in wet winters and shrinks in dry summers.
Newer estates at Hanwell Fields, Hardwick, Longford Park and Bretch Hill have plastic drains. However, they still join the older town sewers, which can struggle in heavy rain. Hard water also fills boilers and pipes with limescale, whatever the age of the home.
A typical job in Grimsbury is a Victorian terrace with sewage backing up in wet weather. A drain camera often shows shared clay pipes with moved joints and silt in the bottom. High-pressure jetting can clear the flow, while a liner can repair the damaged section.
In short, check shared rear drains in older terraces before they fail. A regular CCTV survey costs far less than an emergency call-out.
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Banbury's tap water is very hard because it comes from limestone rock. Scale builds up quickly in pipes, boilers and appliances. As a result, they work less well and wear out sooner, so a water softener is often worth considering.
Old homes around Parsons Street and the High Street often have drains that owners changed many times over the years. They may mix old clay, cast iron and newer plastic pipes. Because the plans are often missing, a CCTV drain survey is a sensible step before you renovate or buy.
Homes near the canal, such as those in Grimsbury and around Castle Quay, can have a high water table. Groundwater can then seep into cracked drains and cause damp. Therefore, it pays to keep your drains in good order if you live close to the water.
Not always. Estates at Hanwell Fields and Longford Park have modern plumbing, but they still join the older town sewers. During heavy rain this can cause slow drains or backflow, and hard water scales up new boilers just as it does old ones.