Projects
Ketton case study
Kevin Miller was a first-time customer of ours, who contacted us following a Google Search, for a sewer connection he needed doing.
Objective
Kevin owns an outbuilding in the picturesque village of Ketton, in Rutland. He wanted a connection doing to the public sewer for facilities within his outbuilding. The nearest public sewer was over 60 metres from the public sewer in a combination of unmade ground, tarmac road and grass verge.
Our Solution
We acted as agent for Kevin in applying for the Section 106 to Anglian Water (AW), as we do for the majority of our clients. Although we normally tend to ask out customers to supply us with a drainage drawing for the application, the nature of the project meant that an architect would not ordinarily have been instructed for any reason. So we put together a basic drawing ourselves, which AW accepted. The application was approved within 10 working days, and was for foul only, with the surface water being discharged separately into the existing land, as is AW’s strongest preference.
With the Section 106 ‘Approval Letter’ to hand, we approached Rutland Highways with a view to making a Section 50 application. We supplied all utilities drawings, a traffic management plan and our accreditations and insurances etc. We have been dealing with Rutland Highways for many years, and the application was turned around in less than 3 weeks.
We started on site a month later, so the whole process from first contact with our customer, quoting for the works, doing the S106 and S50 applications, and starting on site, was completed within an 8-week, which is very quick for a sewer connection.
We started in private property and laid plastic pipes and manhole chambers from the building to the boundary with the Highway. At the boundary we built a demarcation manhole 1.6m deep with a D400 manhole cover to finish, as it would be continually driven over thereafter. From there laid 100mm clay pipes through a grass verge, across a quiet road, and back into another grass verge. The connection was made onto a 150mm existing clay sewer, at approximately 2m deep. AW inspected the connection and signed off with an approval, which we downloaded and gave to our customer for his future reference. All surfaces in the Highway were reinstated as found and the site closed down.
Whilst we were on site we also scraped off the vehicular access track to the property, we laid geotextile membrane and then we laid and compacted Type 1 MOT granite.
Customer review
Kevin was extremely complimentary of our work and of the people working for us on site, and was kind enough to leave the following 5-star review for us on Google:
JW Clark Ltd: 5 Star Groundworks Experience (Lifesavers Included!)
I can’t recommend JW Clark Ltd highly enough! I recently needed some groundworks done to connect a new toilet to my stables. They dug a 60m trench, 30m of which ran through my driveway.
The owner was fantastic. He provided a clear quote that he stuck to, and even offered two helpful suggestions: replacing an ageing water line and finishing the driveway with crushed rock. Both suggestions made perfect sense and added significant value to the project.
The crew themselves were top-notch. They received a perfect 5 out of 5 from me for their quality work. They were friendly, hard-working, and kept me informed throughout the project. They even consulted me on details like the driveway’s turning circle and topsoil placement. Additionally, they came up with a clever way to simplify the drain connection, showcasing excellent communication skills.
JW Clark Ltd left the worksite spotless, exactly as promised. The owner was always responsive to my questions, addressing billing, licences, and access agreements clearly. They’re an honest, reliable, and meticulous company – everything you’d want in a groundworks team. They even kept me in the loop with the project’s progress by sending a series of pictures, as promised.
Here’s where things went above and beyond! Halfway through the project, I had a sofa scheduled for delivery. The long, muddy driveway, blocked by trucks and trenches, made the delivery crew hesitant. Seeing my predicament, the JW Clark Ltd crew offered a helping hand. They used their skid steer loader to carefully transport the sofa from the delivery van all the way to my house!
If you’re looking for top-quality work at a fair price, with a team that goes the extra mile (literally!), look no further than JW Clark Ltd!
It was a pleasure to have carried out this work for Kevin, at JW Clark we speclialise in sewer connections for both commercial and domestic customers, and for existing and new dwellings. For a quote for a new sewer connection click here
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