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It depends where the blockage sits. Pipework inside your boundary up to the connection point is the owner’s responsibility; the main beyond it belongs to the water authority. A camera inspection locates the blockage precisely and the footage shows which side of the line it falls on, which is also exactly the evidence you need if the fault belongs to the authority rather than to you.

Not automatically. Copper from that era often has decades left; galvanised steel usually does not, and it announces itself with falling pressure and rusty morning water. We assess what materials are actually in the house, which sections are failing, and give you a staged plan: fix what is urgent now, schedule the rest, and leave what is genuinely sound alone.

We do these regularly. The slope usually decides the design: drainage needs fall towards the sewer connection, and on some Oyster Bay blocks that means a pump system rather than gravity. We can review your plans before anything is approved, quote the drainage, water and gas connections as one fixed price, and coordinate with your builder on timing.

Persistent wet patches usually mean stormwater is arriving faster than it can leave: a silted pit, a crushed pipe, or runoff from uphill with nowhere to go. Occasionally the culprit is a slow leak on a buried water line instead, which we confirm with a meter test before any digging. Either way, diagnosis comes first and the fix gets a fixed price.

Exposed garden pipework on terraced blocks cops sun, movement and the occasional animal, and joints weep long before they burst. We repair or rerun those lines in materials suited to outdoor exposure, clip them properly so they stop moving, and while we are there, check the isolation valves so a future failure can be shut off without turning the whole house off.