We establish what is wrong with the drainage and hand you the evidence. Then we are done — nobody comes back with a quote.
Padgate Pipe Surveys covers the north and east of Warrington — Padgate, Fearnhead, Cinnamon Brow, Bruche, Orford, Longford, Poulton, Winwick, Paddington, Fairfield, Howley and Dallam, across WA1 and WA2.
The job is a camera survey of the drainage serving a property: every accessible run entered, every defect graded and located, a written report and the complete video. One price, quoted before we attend.
Most drainage firms survey and repair, and the survey is priced low — sometimes free — because it is the route into the repair. That puts a commercial interest at the other end of a camera pointed at your pipe, and it is why so many surveys find so much.
We removed the repair side. It costs us the bigger job. In exchange, a report from us says what is there, and nothing about what it says changes what we earn.
North Warrington was built as blocks and terraces with shared drainage, and a single run often serves several houses before it reaches a chamber. Since the 2011 transfer of private sewers, a great many of those shared lengths became United Utilities' responsibility rather than the householder's.
Plenty of people in WA1 and WA2 have paid for work on pipe that was not theirs, because nobody established the layout first. Establishing it is frequently the most valuable thing in the report.
£225, fixed, with no call-out fee and no extra for locating or marking what we find. The report and the footage are included, not an upsell.
If a run is fully blocked it must be cleared before a camera can see anything — a separate job, and we will tell you on the phone rather than on the doorstep.