Fine Landscaping provides Drainage Contractors in Oval for gardens, patios and driveways that struggle after heavy rain. From French drains to soakaways and CCTV surveys, we stop standing water and protect your home’s foundations. Based in Norbury, we’re typically on site in around 20 minutes.
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If your garden holds water, patios puddle, or gutters overflow into planting beds, we can help. Our team installs French drains, channel drains and surface drainage designed for busy SE11 plots and shared access routes. We regularly work around The Oval cricket ground and Oval tube station, where space is tight and drainage needs to be discreet. The aim is simple: move water away safely and keep it off your property.
Oval has a mix of Georgian townhouses, Victorian terraces and mansion flats, often with compact rear gardens and older drainage runs. These properties can suffer from blocked land drains, tired soakaways, and hard landscaping that sheds water towards the house. We tailor solutions for courtyards, basement lightwells and side returns, keeping finishes sympathetic to period features. If you’re in Kennington or Vauxhall, we’ll design drainage that works without overbuilding your garden.
We start with a site visit to map levels, identify water entry points and check existing outlets. Where needed, we carry out CCTV surveys to locate collapsed pipes, root ingress or poor falls before any digging begins. Installations are completed neatly with clear handover notes, and we pressure-test flows where applicable. Homeowners choose us for transparent options, tidy workmanship and a 10-year warranty on qualifying installations.
Working in the London Borough of Lambeth often means restricted access, controlled parking and careful spoil removal. Around Kennington Park and Stockwell, we frequently see older clay pipework and gardens altered over decades, which can hide broken connections. We plan materials deliveries, protect shared paths, and choose drain runs that avoid services and mature planting. Where discharge options are limited, we design compliant soakaways and overflow routes to reduce flood risk.
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Costs in Oval vary with access, depth, and whether you need repairs or a new system. As a guide, CCTV surveys often start from around £180–£350. Small channel drain or gutter drainage upgrades can be £600–£1,500. French drains and land drains commonly fall between £1,500–£4,500, while soakaways can be £2,000–£6,500 depending on size and ground conditions.
Many jobs are completed within 1–3 days, such as installing channel drains, reconnecting gutter drainage, or adding short land drain runs. Larger solutions like a full French drain perimeter or a new soakaway typically take 3–7 days. Timescales depend on access through terraces, the amount of excavation, disposal logistics, and what we find once we expose existing pipework. Weather and drying times for reinstatement can also affect completion.
Most garden drainage works, including French drains, channel drains and soakaways, are usually permitted development because they’re below ground and don’t alter the building’s footprint. However, rules can change if you’re in a listed building, a conservation area, or working near party walls and shared boundaries. We’ll advise on likely requirements, confirm discharge routes, and recommend checking with Lambeth where permissions or consents may apply.
Yes. We provide a 10-year warranty on qualifying drainage installations, covering workmanship and installation-related defects such as failed joints, incorrect falls, or improper bedding that affects performance. The warranty applies when the system is used as designed and not altered by others. We also explain maintenance needs, such as keeping gullies clear and checking gutters, so your drainage continues to perform through heavy rain and leaf fall.
We offer several options depending on appearance, capacity and access. Popular choices include perforated pipe French drains with clean stone, modular soakaway crates, ACO-style channel drains with metal or composite grates, and discreet surface drainage gullies. For gutter drainage, we can upgrade downpipe connections and add rodding access points. We’ll recommend the best layout after checking levels, soil behaviour and where water can legally discharge.
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