Blocked drains in Hampshire, cleared and repaired
Anytime Drain Solutions unblocks, surveys and repairs drains right across Hampshire, from the SO and PO city postcodes down on the coast to the RG and GU areas up north. We cover the whole county, find out why the drain blocked before we quote, and back our lining and repairs with a 10-year guarantee.
- One crew for the whole county, coast to the Surrey border
- Clogged drains and gullies sorted, most the same day
- We camera the line before pricing any repair
- Lining for clay in the cities, pitch-fibre on the estates
One number for the whole county. Tell us the postcode and what the drain is doing, and we will point you to the right next step.
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0330 043 4305
Urgent drainage help
Fast on urgent jobs, blocked drains, flooding, a gully surcharging across a yard, wherever in the county you are.
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Snap the overflow or the chamber, drop us the postcode, and we will tell you which way the job is likely to go before anyone drives out.
Drainage engineers covering Southampton, Portsmouth, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Basingstoke, Andover, Aldershot, Farnborough, Winchester and the towns between them.
Drainage Issues We Handle Across Hampshire
Most of what we get called to in Hampshire is a drain that needs clearing fast, wherever it is in the county. Some jobs turn out to be a worn pipe underground, and those are the ones we are set up to repair properly rather than keep re-clearing.
Here is what we get called out to most across the county, roughly in the order the phone rings:
- an outside gully or yard drain overflowing, often the first to go on a long shallow run to the public sewer
- a toilet backing up or a sink and shower crawling away
- the same length blocking every few weeks, the classic sign of failing pitch-fibre on the post-war estates
- drain smells indoors or out that no amount of bleach shifts
- roots into the line, common where mature trees sit over old clay joints in the older streets
- a cracked, dropped or leaking pipe found behind a blockage
- standing water on a rural plot where the soakaway has stopped taking it
- urgent faults at homes, lets, restaurants, shops, offices and managed sites
Some Hampshire jobs need immediate clearance because the blockage is causing active disruption. Others need inspection because the symptoms suggest the real fault sits further down the line.
Speak to a Drainage EngineerWhen a Hampshire Drainage Problem Needs Investigation, Not Just Clearance
A drain that blocks once and clears cleanly is one kind of job. A line that overflows again, smells after previous work, or keeps backing up in the same area is another.
A gully on a Portsmouth terrace that floods the same corner after every downpour, a toilet on a Basingstoke estate that keeps struggling weeks after a rod-through, a smell that keeps coming back at a Winchester pub: none of those are surface muck. They are the state of the pipe itself. The blockage you can see is the symptom, not the cause, and that is the point where we stop guessing and put a camera down.
That changes the approach.
The next step often depends on whether the issue is:
- repeating in the same section and needs CCTV confirmation
- showing signs of underground damage that may need repair work
- linked to root ingress, where root removal may need to be followed by lining or repair
- affecting a house, rental, restaurant, office, or commercial premises where access, usage, and urgency all shape the job
The aim is not simply to reopen the line for now. It is to identify the failure properly and recommend the right drainage work based on the condition of the system.
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Drainage Services in Hampshire
Some Hampshire jobs are a straight clear and nothing more. Others lead into a survey, a structural repair, no-dig lining, rainwater drainage work, or a maintenance plan once we have seen what the pipe is actually doing.
Drain Clearing & Unblocking
Blocked toilet, sink or yard gully, anywhere from a Southampton terrace to a Waterlooville cul-de-sac? Most we rod and jet clear on the first visit. On the Southern Water adoptable sewers we sort your side; if the fault sits past the boundary we tell you straight so you are not paying for the water company’s length.
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CCTV Drain Surveys
Across the county the repeat blockage usually comes down to one of two things: a Victorian clay joint that has dropped under the older city streets, or pitch-fibre that has blistered on a post-war estate. The camera tells us which, and how far down. You keep the footage and a note of where the fault sits.
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Drain Repairs
Cracked or dropped clay under a city terrace will keep snagging until the pipe itself is put right. We mend the failed length, in most cases without lifting the path or the drive, and back it with our 10-year guarantee.
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Drain Lining & Patching
A resin sleeve cured inside the existing run rebuilds the bad length from within, no trench. It is what saves a clay drain under a city forecourt and an oval pitch-fibre run on an overspill estate alike, and it carries the 10-year guarantee.
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Root Removal
Up in the leafy commuter towns toward the Surrey border, mature street trees find any joint that has opened up. We cut the root mass out and camera the gap they came through. Where that joint needs lining to keep them out for good, we tell you.
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Drain Installation / Groundwork
New runs, chambers and groundwork for an extension, a worn-out system, or a layout that needs starting from scratch. We lay it to fall, handle the new connection into the public sewer where one is needed, and flow-test the lot to building regs before backfilling.
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Soakaway installations
Out on the rural plots with no surface-water sewer to connect to, rainwater has to go into the ground. The catch is the ground varies wildly across Hampshire, free-draining chalk in one village, heavy clay the next. We dig a percolation test first, then build a soakaway sized to what your ground actually takes and the roof feeding it.
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Pre-Planned Drainage Maintenance
A busy kitchen in central Southampton or Portsmouth blocks on a rhythm of its own, and a let portfolio spread across the county is hard to keep an eye on. We book in jetting and camera rounds so the weak runs get cleared on a set date, not at the worst possible moment mid-trade. Landlords, managing agents and commercial sites alike.
Learn moreA recent Hampshire job: pitch-fibre collapsing on a Basingstoke estate
A house on one of the Buckskin estates in Basingstoke, in the RG22 part of town, had a downstairs toilet and a kitchen waste that kept slowing up within weeks of being rodded. The estate went in during the town’s overspill boom, so the underground pipe was 1970s pitch-fibre, and the pattern fitted: cleared, fine for a fortnight, then backing up again.
We put the camera down from the chamber and found the pitch-fibre had gone oval and blistered along one length, so waste was catching on the lip every time. Rodding was never going to hold. We jetted the run clear, then lined the failed section with a no-dig CIPP liner cured inside the old pipe, so the garden and the path stayed put. A repair like this usually lands in the low thousands rather than the cost of digging the whole run up, and it carries our 10-year guarantee. The toilet has run properly since.
On the post-war estates across the county, a drain that fails on the same few weeks’ cycle is usually telling you the pipe itself has gone, and lining it is cheaper than clearing it forever.
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Why Hampshire Customers Choose Anytime Drain Solutions
Plenty of firms will jet a drain and drive off. The Hampshire jobs that bring people back to us are the ones where the drain keeps failing and nobody has said why. We do the first visit and whatever comes after it, so if a blockage turns out to be a cracked pipe or roots, the same team surveys it, quotes it and repairs it. You are not left chasing a second company.
We work the length of Hampshire for homeowners, landlords, letting agents and businesses, from a one-off blocked toilet in a Gosport flat to a collapsed run under a Farnborough driveway. We find the cause before we recommend the fix, so what you pay for matches the real state of the pipe, not whatever was quickest to clear on the day.
- One Hampshire crew end to end, Southampton and Portsmouth on the coast through to Basingstoke and Aldershot up north
- Out the same day on most urgent blockages and overflows
- We show you the camera footage, so the quote matches what is actually in the pipe
- Homes, lets and commercial sites, all done by us and never subbed out
- Lining, patching or full dig-out, whichever the pipe condition actually calls for
- A written price before a cover comes off, and a 10-year guarantee on lining and repairs
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How Our Hampshire Drainage Service Moves Forward
It is the same on every Hampshire job. We look first, tell you what is wrong and what it costs, then do the work. Some drains are cleared on the first visit; others need a survey because the cause is not obvious or the same section keeps failing.
Tell us what
is happening
Give us the postcode, what the drain is doing, and whether it is a one-off or a run that keeps going. Three lines is plenty to get us moving.
Check the drain using the right method
Rods and a jet shift most of it. If the same section keeps going, we put a CCTV camera down so we are reading the pipe, not guessing at it.
Identify the fault and advise on the next step
You hear in plain terms what the drain wants, a clear, a repair, lining or root work, and the price for it, before any cover goes back down.
Carry out
the agreed work
We do the agreed work and flow-test the line, so the drain that brought us out is not the drain that calls us back next month.
Hampshire Drainage FAQs
How much does it cost to unblock a drain in Hampshire?
Who is responsible for a blocked drain in Hampshire, me or the water company?
Which towns in Hampshire do you cover?
What blocks drains in older Hampshire homes?
When does a blocked drain need CCTV rather than another clearance visit?
Should I get a CCTV drain survey when buying a house in Hampshire?
Do you repair drains without digging up the whole area?
Do you work on flats, rentals, shops and commercial sites across Hampshire?
What causes most blocked drains in Hampshire
Hampshire is really two counties underground, and which one you are in decides what blocks the drain. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces in Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester and the old garrison streets of Aldershot were laid in salt-glazed clay. A century on, the joints have opened and tree roots have worked into the gaps, so the same run keeps catching waste and backs up a fortnight after a quick rod-through.
The other half of the county is post-war. Basingstoke trebled in size as a London overspill town from the 1960s, and estates like Buckskin, Popley and Brighton Hill were drained in pitch-fibre pipe. Pitch-fibre has a life of about forty to fifty years, so it is now blistering, going oval and collapsing inward; waste snags on the lip and the blockage rebuilds itself however many times it is cleared. Andover and the newer estates around Fareham, Gosport and Havant have the same pipe stock and the same problem.
Out in the New Forest and the rural Test and Meon valleys it is different again. Older clay runs, longer private drains, and a lot of properties off the mains on septic tanks and soakaways, where a blocked outfall or a tired soakaway is the real fault rather than the pipe.
We put a camera down before we commit to anything, and line rather than dig where the pipe will take it. Who owns the sewer your drain hands over to depends on where you are: most of Hampshire is Southern Water, while the north of the county around Basingstoke is Thames Water. We will tell you whether a fault sits on your private drain or their main before any work starts, and Ofwat sets out who owns which pipes.
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Areas We Cover Across Hampshire
We work the whole of Hampshire. On the coast that means Southampton and the SO postcodes, Portsmouth and the PO postcodes, plus Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport and Havant. Inland and north we cover Winchester, Basingstoke and Andover on the RG side, and Aldershot, Farnborough and Fleet on the GU side. We are out in the New Forest too, around Totton, Lymington and Waterlooville. We also cover the neighbouring Dorset and Wiltshire areas. If your town is not listed, send the postcode and we will confirm.
Need Help With a Drainage Problem in Hampshire?
If it is urgent, call us. If a drain keeps coming back, send over the postcode and the details and we will tell you whether it needs a clear, a survey or a repair, and what that costs.
Phone:
0330 043 4305
Email:
anytime.drain.solutions@gmail.com
Worth saying up front: where in the county you are, whether it is one outlet or several going at once, and whether anyone has already had a go at this drain before.
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