As summer (finally) appears to arrive in the UK, I thought I’d use the opportunity to look back over the strange last year where there have been more call-outs than ever before and considering why?

Blocked toilets and drains in both Norfolk and Suffolk have featured regularly in messages to Darren’s Drains and we can’t help feeling it’s because most of the population has been working from home and / or on furlough.

It’s not just one household reliant on home – we reckon if you carried out a simple visual survey of any street in Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth and Norwich, you’d see many families at home. Schools obviously closed for most of the past year and again this, undoubtedly, put pressure on plumbing and sewage. 

It’s also been a year where many people have taken stock of their working lives and have decided to go for self employment. Darren has been self-employed for many years now and though the job can be relentless with demand, he has zero regrets about setting up and establishing this successful Norfolk drain business.

As in all industries, though, Darren hasn’t stood still and rested on his laurels. He successfully completed extensive training in Doncaster and, even more recently, attained CHAS accreditation.

In a nutshell, this means that this leading Norfolk drainage company is compliant. This covers risk management and involves mitigating risks across the supply chain. As a customer contacting Darren and Darren’s Drains, you have complete peace of mind from knowing your home or commercial premises are in the safest of hands.

With this training and certification, Darren has invested in new equipment for the business and his customers. A new power jetting machine is now part of his daily van equipment, along with thermal imaging cameras to identify and diagnose the optimal solution for both residential and commercial customers.

Talking about the van, Darren’s mileage would shame the Top Gear team. 

He’s covered almost 50,000 miles as a key worker in the past year or so and that’s because East Anglia is so vast an area, encompassing Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex; though Norfolk and Suffolk are the places mostly covered. Darren has also ventured into London (Wembley and Luton) as well as deepest Suffolk, bordering Essex.

Winter is usually much busier for drainage work and luckily, winter seems to have started in October and is just ending as June starts. Summer though is much better in many ways as there’s more daylight hours and bigger tasks like drain lining are easier when the weather is not cold or wet.

Finally, if you’re looking for a reliable person who will turn up on time and carry out drainage work at your home or business, across East Anglia, call, email, Facebook message Darren at any time. Unless he’s sleeping or driving, he will respond promptly.