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Ilfracombe sits at the end of the A361 in EX34, about 25 minutes from our yard in central Barnstaple depending on traffic through Braunton. It's a proper Victorian seaside town with a working harbour, and the housing reflects that, terraced cottages climbing steep hillsides, older guest houses converted to flats, and a mix of 1970s and 1990s residential development on the flatter ground inland. We get a steady run of blocked drains, collapsed clay pipes and camera surveys out here.

The steeper streets near the harbour and the older residential rows inland tend to run clay pipework, some of it well over a hundred years old, and tree root ingress into pipe joints is a recurring problem. We usually come in on the A361 through Mullacott Cross. The combination of steep gradients, ageing shared sewers serving terraced rows, and high groundwater on the lower ground toward the seafront means Ilfracombe throws up more collapsed and misaligned pipe jobs than a comparable-sized inland town.

Most common Ilfracombe jobs

• Clearing blocked drains in terraced properties where shared sewer runs serve three or four houses
• CCTV surveys of Victorian-era clay pipework ahead of property sales or renovation work
• Root cutting and patch lining on older pipe joints in hillside residential streets
• High-pressure jetting to clear grease and debris from converted guest house drainage systems
• Collapsed pipe repairs on steep runs where ground movement has cracked or displaced joints

Services we run from Ilfracombe