Brighton and Hove drainage and leak detection.

Brighton and Hove sits on the most demanding ground we work across the South East: a chalk seafront where Southern Water's very hard supply (300 to 340 ppm CaCO3) scales pipework from the inside while salt-laden air corrodes lead, brass and cast-iron fittings from the outside. The combination is why so many BN1, BN2 and BN3 properties book us for planned drainage and leak detection rather than waiting for a failure – here the wear is constant, not sudden.

What the housing stock throws at us

The Regency and Victorian terraces behind the seafront, the tight courts of The Lanes, and the bow-fronted villas of Kemptown were never plumbed for modern loads. We routinely find original lead supply runs feeding 21st-century bathrooms, shared soil stacks serving subdivided houses, and back-inlet gullies long since silted under repaved yards. In the listed core around The Lanes and Kemptown any visible external pipework or reinstatement needs consent, so we plan drain runs and leak repairs to stay behind the building line wherever the layout allows.

How we schedule the work

These are planned, project-grade visits rather than reactive 24/7 callouts – same-day to next-day where the diary allows, with an on-site window between 9am and 5pm. A drainage visit brings jetting, CCTV with a written report and, where a collapse is confirmed, a no-dig relining option that avoids lifting period paving. Leak detection runs on thermal imaging, acoustic correlation and tracer gas, finishing with an insurance-grade report. Pricing is fixed after the survey, with no callout fee – see /pricing.