Adur drainage and leak detection.

Shoreham-by-Sea sits on an active flood plain beside the Adur estuary, and that single geographical fact shapes almost every drainage and leak-detection project we undertake in this district. Across BN15, BN43 and BN44 – taking in Lancing, Sompting and Southwick as well as Shoreham itself – Southern Water supplies mains water at a hardness of 280 to 320 ppm CaCO3, which places Adur firmly in the hard-water band. Scale accumulation and premature fitting wear are therefore background conditions on virtually every property we inspect.

The district's property challenge

The dominant stock here is the post-war estate, much of it built between the late 1940s and early 1960s in a concentrated band stretching inland from Shoreham Port toward Lancing College. These properties are now approaching the point where their original cast-iron soil stacks – many still in first-fit condition – are reaching the end of a credible service life. Corrosion, joint-failure and partial collapse are the failure modes we find most frequently when we put a camera down in BN15 and BN43. Add the flood-plain context and you have a district where a blocked or compromised drain is not merely inconvenient: it is a genuine backflow risk during high-water events on the Adur estuary.

247 Rapid Response covers Adur on a scheduled basis, with appointments booked one to two working days ahead and an on-site window of 9 am to 5 pm. We offer two specialist services here – drainage surveys and remediation, and precision leak detection – and we carry no callout fee; the price is fixed after the initial survey. See /pricing for a full breakdown of how costs are structured for projects in this district.