Drain Tracing & Location Services

Not sure where your drains are located? Want to locate your drainage and sewer pipes before you start a new building project?

Clear Drains 4 U offers specialist drain location services for customers who want to gain an accurate understanding of their underground drainage network and discover what kind of condition it’s in, without digging up the landscape and causing an unnecessary mess.

Our trace and locate solutions will also give you an insight into which parts of your drainage system are your responsibility, and which parts are owned by you – and therefore need to be cleaned and maintained or by your local water authority. Knowing exactly how your drains are laid out, and who will be accountable for what, can make fault-finding much easier and ensure any repairs can be completed quickly and accurately.

Drain locating

We use a range of techniques to trace drainage networks, including water flow tracing, dye testing and, of course, drain CCTV monitoring. We provide all customers with full reports and with site drawn plans of the network’s layout for reference.

Sewer tracing

Our engineers can provide detailed information on flow directions, drain sewer diameters that can be used to plan future excavation projects, or that can be submitted to the local water authority as part of a pre-build or post-build survey.

Expert engineers

Our drainage contractors have decades of combined experience in locating and tracing drainage systems. Our engineers have been trained to get the most precise results possible from our drain tracing technologies.

Top tracing equipment

We use the Sonde and Trace system to trace non-metallic drains, sewers, ducts and pipes. We’ll attach a transmitter to our CCTV camera to identify drain and sewer diameters, invert levels, buried chambers, collapsed drains and lateral connections.

Drain tracing prior to construction projects

Drain tracing is particularly important if you are planning to add an extension to your home or construct a new building on your land. To make sure your project doesn’t cause any damage to your underground systems, you’ll need to know exactly where your pipes are located, and how deep they run.

If your local water authority’s drain network runs through or underneath your property, you will need to apply for a ‘build over’ agreement to get permission for the works. If it comes to it, we can guide you through this process and help you deal with all the necessary paperwork.

A client called us one day to unblock their foul drain, unknown to them what caused the blockage was 3 individual broken drain sections due to him erecting new fence posts and panels, three of the posts had broken his foul drain, knowing where your drains are can save a lot of time and money.

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Drain Tracing & Locating