Blocked Drains Leicester

In Leicester the public sewers belong to Severn Trent Water. If the blockage is in a pipe you share with a neighbour, or beyond your boundary, it's normally the water company's to clear — call Severn Trent on 0800 783 4444. If it's in a drain that serves only your property, it's yours, and that's where we come in. Our engineer finds the blockage first and tells you whose it is before any work starts.

Water pooling around a road gully outside? Road drains are Leicester City Council's responsibility — report it to the council. We clear private gullies, channels and manholes anywhere in City Centre, Clarendon Park, Highfields, Stoneygate and the rest of LE1–LE5.

Storm Henk on 2 January 2024 led to 160 reports of internal flooding in Leicester, mostly from the River Soar in Abbey and Belgrave wards, according to Leicester City Council. The city's Soar flood scheme protects about 4,700 properties.

South Highfields is a conservation area of two-storey red-brick terraces, and Clarendon Park was built up quickly in the 1870s and 1880s. Streets like these usually have shared rear drains, which have been Severn Trent's responsibility since 2011.

Much of Leicester sits on Mercia Mudstone, a clay that shrinks and swells and can attack concrete with sulphates, according to the British Geological Survey — tough on old rigid pipes, and a reason to test before relying on a soakaway.