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Withycombe Raleigh sits about three miles from central Exmouth in EX8, and it's a genuinely mixed area. You've got older Victorian and Edwardian terraces closer to the village centre, a run of 1960s and 1970s semis spreading out from there, and some newer estate housing on the fringes. It's largely residential, owner-occupied family homes. The jobs we get here are typical of that mix: blocked drains, cracked older clayware, and root ingress on the established streets where the trees have had decades to do damage.

We come in off the B3178 and work our way through the residential streets depending on where the call is. The older housing near the village core tends to sit on clay pipe runs that are well past their best, and shared sewer arrangements between terraced properties cause recurring blockages when one household has a problem. The 1970s semis often have original uPVC that's started to sag or joint. Withycombe Brook runs through the area and the low-lying ground near it can cause surface water issues after heavy rain.

Most common Withycombe Raleigh jobs

• Clearing blockages in clay drain runs under older terraced properties
• CCTV surveys on shared sewers before house purchases or after repeated blockages
• Root cutting and joint repair where garden trees have worked into ageing pipe runs
• Surface water drainage checks on lower-lying properties near Withycombe Brook
• Collapsed or sagging sections of original 1970s uPVC lateral drains
• Unblocking downpipes and gully traps after leaf fall in the autumn

Services we run from Withycombe Raleigh