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Blocked drains cleared fast in Newbury & Thatcham. 24/7 callouts, fixed prices. We also carry out pre-purchase drain surveys and drain repairs.

Blocked drains Newbury Berkshire, our expert drain clearance team carry out drain jetting and drain cleaning to get your drains in Newbury flowing fast. Contact Newbury Drainage ...

We at Newbury Drainage are passionate about what we do, it is our goal to solve any issue that may come your way by using the vast knowledge & equipment our team has at their disposal. We are a local family run with over 10 years of experience & as a company we value the interaction from our customers, to us your voice matters. We provide our service from the front line and don't mind getting our hands dirty when it comes to solving issues, so for that face to face personal experience then Newbury Drainage are the company to call! We cover a wide range of services such as:
-Blocked drains
-Drain jetting
-Drain unblocking
-Drain cleaning
-Drain clearance
-CCTV drain survey
-Drain repairs

04/11/2026

Before anyone lifts a drain cover, one detail tells you most of what you need to know: whether one fixture is backing up, or several.

If the kitchen sink and the downstairs toilet are both slow and gurgling, the blockage sits past the point where those pipes join, so it is out in the main run. If only the one sink is affected, the problem is usually close by, in the trap or the short branch feeding it.

Around Newbury the same rule applies, but the distances change. Older properties in Thatcham, Hungerford and the villages often have long runs out to a private drain or soakaway, and a blockage halfway along a garden that size is a different job from one under a kitchen floor. That is where a CCTV survey earns its place: it shows exactly where the pipe is restricted, and whether tree roots or a displaced joint are involved, before anyone starts lifting paving.

Newbury Drainage — https://newburydrainage.co.uk

03/11/2026

Where a garden floods, the water usually has nowhere left to go. Out through Thatcham, Hungerford and the Lambourn valley, plenty of homes are off the mains for surface water. Rainwater runs to a soakaway in the garden or straight out to a ditch at the edge of the plot. Both have a limit. A rubble soakaway silts up quietly over the years as grit and leaf mould wash off the roof and driveway, until the pit is full and the ground stops taking water. A ditch half-choked with cuttings and silt does the same job. The thing to watch for is a corner of the garden that stays soggy after every spell of rain while the rest dries out. We can trace where your surface water actually goes, jet the gully or pipe feeding it, and tell you plainly whether the soakaway is the problem or the soil is.

We cover Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford, Lambourn, Wash Common and the villages.

Newbury Drainage — https://newburydrainage.co.uk

02/11/2026

After a night of heavy rain, a drain that is backing up is usually telling you where the water has been going all summer.
Rain washes grit, leaves and soil off the roads and drives into the nearest low point, which is nearly always a gully or a chamber. If the run beyond it is already partly silted, that is the night it stops coping.
The first checks are cheap. Lift the nearest cover and see whether water is running through or sitting. Look at the gully on the drive for leaves packed over the grate. If both are clear and the water is still rising, the problem is further along and it needs clearing properly.
Flooding that comes up and goes down again within the hour is usually a capacity problem rather than a blockage, and a camera survey is the way to tell the difference.
We cover Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford and the surrounding villages.
https://newburydrainage.co.uk

01/11/2026

Rainwater downpipes carry more water than any other pipe on the house, and they are the ones nobody checks.
A downpipe that has come apart at a joint, or a hopper full of moss, sends water down the wall and into the ground next to the foundations instead of into the drain. It looks like a damp patch long before it looks like a drainage problem.
At this time of year the usual find is a tennis ball or a shoe wedged in the bend at the bottom, with a season of leaves packed in behind it. Water then backs up the pipe and overflows at the lowest joint.
It is a two-minute check from a step ladder, and it is a lot cheaper than the repointing that follows a season of water down a wall.
We cover Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford and the surrounding villages.
https://newburydrainage.co.uk

31/10/2026

A gully pot that has not been looked at for a year is usually half full of silt, and the half above it is where the water should be going.
Silt comes off the drive, grit comes off the road, and moss comes off the roof. It settles, compacts, and eventually sets hard enough that a hose will not shift it. From then on, every heavy shower runs across the drive instead of away down the drain.
Autumn is when it shows. Leaves on top of a silted pot are the visible half of the problem, and clearing just the leaves leaves the pot as blocked as it was.
Lifting the cover, clearing it out and pouring a bucket of water down afterwards tells you straight away whether the run behind it is clear.
We cover Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford and the surrounding villages.
https://newburydrainage.co.uk

30/10/2026

The first proper rain of autumn finds every gully on the drive at once. Leaf litter, grit off the road and moss off the roof all wash down and settle in the pot under the cover, and the water has nowhere to go but back up.
A gully pot is a small trap set into the drive or the edge of the road, and its whole job is to catch that debris before it reaches the pipe. Once it fills to the outlet, water sits in the pot and spreads across the surface instead of draining away.
Lifting the cover and clearing what is sitting on the grate takes a couple of minutes. If the pot is still holding water afterwards, the run beyond it is the problem, and that needs jetting rather than another scrape with a trowel.
We cover Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford and the surrounding villages.
https://newburydrainage.co.uk

29/10/2026

Fats off the grill tray, plates rinsed off outside, a bit of ash. 🌾 Out towards Kintbury, Lambourn and the villages, plenty of outside drains lead to a soakaway or a long private run rather than a mains sewer — so what goes in can sit there far longer than it would in town.
Worth two minutes before Saturday: lift the cover, clear anything sitting on the grate, then tip a bucket of water down. Drains away quickly and you're fine. Sits there, bubbles, or rises, and there's a partial blockage forming.
We cover Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford and the surrounding villages.
https://newburydrainage.co.uk

28/10/2026

Out towards Hungerford, Lambourn and the villages, weekend drainage works a bit differently. 🌾
If your home runs on a private system — a soakaway, a septic tank, or a long pipe out to a ditch — a quick check now saves a mess later. Lift the outside gully cover and look for standing water. After the next heavy shower, check the soakaway again a few hours later. If water is still sitting there, it is not soaking away the way it should.
We see it most around Thatcham and the Lambourn valley when a dry the warmer months is followed by a wet autumn: the ground bakes hard, then cannot take the water.
📞 01635 598004 | https://newburydrainage.co.uk

27/10/2026

September is back-to-school week across Thatcham and Hungerford — and school canteens are straight back to feeding hundreds of pupils. 🏫 After six weeks of lighter use, kitchen drains can be slow to start: food waste and cooking oil that has had all the warmer months to settle and harden.
That is the classic September school blockage — and it is exactly what high-pressure jetting clears in a single visit. If the same drain keeps blocking, a CCTV look-see shows the real cause before a lost lunch service costs more than the fix.
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📞 01635 598004 | https://newburydrainage.co.uk

25/10/2026

Some things can't wait until morning. A sewage backup or an overflowing drain at 3am isn't something you should be dealing with yourself — and it's not something we'd charge you double for either.
the festive season Day, bank holidays, the middle of the night: we answer, 365 days a year.
Daytime urgent blockages are usually 60–90 minutes away across Newbury, Thatcham and West Berkshire.
📞 01635 598004 — we're awake.

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