County wide

Cesspool and septic tank services across East Sussex

We cover East Sussex alongside Kent, from Rye and Winchelsea along the coast through to Eastbourne and the villages inland. The same tankers, the same crew and the same 24 hour callout.

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KP tanker parked on a narrow country lane with the suction hose run out to a tank

Much of East Sussex sits on heavy clay, which matters more than people expect. Clay drains slowly, so septic tank drainage fields here work harder and fail sooner than they would on chalk or sand.

Working in East Sussex

Coastal and low lying properties often have a high water table, which puts extra strain on older tanks.
We install treatment plants where a septic tank drainage field can no longer cope with the ground.
Domestic and commercial work, with emergency callouts day and night.

Clay, levels and the High Weald

East Sussex asks different things of a private drainage system depending on where you are. Much of the Low Weald is heavy clay that drains slowly, so drainage fields work hard and fail sooner than on chalk. The Pevensey Levels, the Brede valley and the levels around Rye hold water close to the surface through the winter, which pushes groundwater into older tanks. And in the High Weald around Battle, steep valleys and small streams mean treatment plants are common where a field cannot be laid out.

The coast adds its own rules. The shoreline from Dungeness to Pett Level is protected, so a new discharge near it needs checking against the General Binding Rules before anything is designed, and holiday lets put a very uneven load on a tank through the year.

If your tank is filling faster than it should, why a cesspool fills so fast in East Sussex explains the usual causes. Signs your cesspit is getting full in East Sussex covers which warnings to trust on this ground, and the problems a full tank causes in East Sussex explains what an overdue tank does to each kind of system.