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Gorwell sits on the eastern edge of Barnstaple in EX31, roughly a 10-minute drive from the town centre. It's a mixed area, with a good number of 1970s and 1980s semi-detached houses sitting alongside some later infill builds and older converted properties. The drainage work we pick up here is pretty typical of that era of housing: ageing clay and early plastic pipework, blocked drains from decades of grease and silt build-up, and the occasional collapsed section under garden paths and driveways.

We come in through the eastern routes off the A39 corridor, which gives us quick access to the residential streets that climb and spread across this part of town. The housing from the 70s and 80s often has shared sewer connections between neighbouring properties, which can make tracing a blockage more involved than it looks. Ground levels here vary, and some of the lower-lying gardens hold water after heavy rain. Mature trees are common on the older plots, and root ingress into clay pipe joints is something we deal with more regularly here than in newer parts of Barnstaple.

Most common Gorwell jobs

• Clearing slow-draining kitchen sinks in 1980s semis where grease has built up over years
• CCTV surveys to locate root ingress in clay drains under garden borders
• Shared sewer blockages where the fault is between two neighbouring properties
• Patchy drain collapses under driveways resurfaced without proper inspection
• Unblocking outdoor gullies that back up after heavy rain on lower-lying plots

Services we run from Gorwell