ABOUT DRAINS & SEWERS
Practical UK drainage guidance, made clearer
Drains are essential, but the information around them is often harder to navigate than the problem itself. Drains & Sewers exists to make UK drainage clearer, with practical explanations for homeowners, property professionals, businesses and people working in the trade.
Built on real drainage experience
Drains & Sewers is led by Tony Fowles, who has more than 20 years of experience in the UK drainage industry. That experience covers practical drainage work as well as the operational side of planning jobs, supporting engineers, dealing with customers and managing more complex drainage projects.
The aim is not to make every subject sound simple. It is to explain what matters, where responsibility sits, what a sensible next step looks like and when a problem needs professional investigation.
Our mission: make drains make sense
Drainage advice is too often oversimplified, overloaded with jargon or written mainly to sell a particular solution. Drains & Sewers takes a more practical approach.
- Explain common drainage problems and systems in plain English.
- Help readers understand maintenance, responsibility and repair options.
- Give people a better basis for speaking to drainage companies.
- Develop useful directory and trade resources around genuine industry needs.
What you’ll find here
DRAINAGE GUIDANCE
Practical explanations covering common problems, drainage systems, responsibilities, maintenance and repair methods.
UK DRAINAGE DIRECTORY
A growing route for finding drainage companies by location and service. Company listings and searchable features are being introduced in stages.
TRADE RESOURCES
Technical, operational, equipment, training and business information for people working in or entering the UK drainage industry.
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A practical approach
The information on this site is designed to help readers understand their options and make better-informed decisions. It cannot diagnose every drainage problem remotely, and site-specific issues may still require investigation by a suitably experienced professional.
Whether you are trying to understand a blocked drain, work out who is responsible for a pipe, plan a repair or find useful industry information, Drains & Sewers is here to help you decide what to do next.