Garden Drainage in Streatham Hill that stops pooling, protects patios and keeps lawns usable. From French drains to soakaways and pump systems, we design solutions that suit your plot and budget. Fast local response from our Norbury base, around 10 minutes away.
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If your garden floods after heavy rain or your patio stays slick for days, targeted drainage makes a noticeable difference. We carry out garden drainage streatham hill area installations for homes near Streatham Hill station and along Christchurch Road, tackling surface water and soggy borders. Our team pinpoints where water is entering, where it’s collecting, and how best to disperse it safely. The result is a garden you can actually use, even through wetter months.
Streatham Hill’s mix of Victorian terraces, Edwardian houses and mansion conversions often comes with compact rear gardens and shared boundaries. That can mean limited fall, older paving bases and downpipes that discharge into the garden. We’re used to working around extensions, basement lightwells and tight side returns, keeping disruption low. Every design is tailored to the property layout and the way you use the space.
We start with a site visit and, where needed, CCTV surveys to confirm blockages, broken runs or poor gradients. Then we propose a clear plan using options such as land drains, channel drains, catch pits, grading, soakaways or pump systems. Work is carried out neatly with proper reinstatement of paving, turf and borders, and we keep you updated at each stage. Homeowners choose us for straightforward advice, tidy workmanship and a 10-year warranty on qualifying installations.
Across SW2 and the surrounding streets, access can be tight and parking restrictions are common, so we plan deliveries and waste removal carefully. Many gardens have shallow falls and older hard landscaping that sheds water towards the property. We design garden drainage in London Borough of Lambeth with practical gradients, correctly sized soakaways and reliable outfalls. Where ground conditions or levels make gravity drainage difficult, we specify pump systems with serviceable components.
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Costs vary with access, depth, soil type and how much reinstatement is needed. As a guide, small fixes such as a new channel drain or local regrading often start around £600–£1,500. French drains and land drain runs commonly fall in the £1,500–£4,000 range. Larger schemes with soakaways, multiple catch pits, or pump systems can be £4,000–£10,000+. We provide a written breakdown after a site survey.
Most straightforward drainage jobs take 1–3 days, such as installing a short French drain run, a channel drain, or a single catch pit. Medium projects involving several runs, regrading and reinstating paving or turf typically take 3–7 days. Larger systems with soakaways, pump installations or complex access can take 1–2 weeks. Timescales depend on weather, ground conditions, service locations and the finish you choose for reinstatement.
In many cases, garden drainage works are permitted development because they’re below ground and don’t materially change the property’s appearance. However, rules can differ for listed buildings, conservation areas, or if you’re altering levels significantly or connecting to certain outfalls. We’ll advise on what’s likely to be required and can help you check Lambeth guidance where relevant. We also design to manage water on-site where possible, using soakaways and permeable solutions.
We provide a 10-year warranty on qualifying garden drainage installations, covering workmanship and the correct installation of specified components such as French drains, land drains, channel drains, catch pits and soakaways. It’s designed to give peace of mind that the system has been built properly and will perform as intended under normal use. The warranty doesn’t cover damage from third-party works, misuse, or extreme events beyond design assumptions. We also explain simple maintenance to keep everything flowing.
We offer several approaches depending on your garden and where the water sits. Popular options include French drains with clean gravel and geotextile, perforated land drains, discreet channel drains along patios, catch pits for silt control, and soakaways sized to your roof and hardstanding. Where gravity drainage isn’t possible, we can install pump systems with alarms and accessible chambers. We’ll recommend the best combination after checking levels, soil conditions and discharge options.
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