Cornwall Drainage — Common Questions
Do you cover Cornwall 24 hours a day?
Yes. Exjet runs a 24-hour callout across east and north Cornwall, every day of the year. Our engineers work over the Tamar daily, so this is normal territory rather than a special trip.
Which areas and postcodes do you cover?
PL14, PL15, PL17, PL18 and PL30 to PL32, plus EX23 around Bude — so Launceston, Liskeard, Callington, Gunnislake, Bodmin, Lostwithiel, Camelford, Delabole and Bude, and the villages and farms between them.
Can heavy rain off the moor flood my property?
Yes, and it is one of the most common jobs here. Runoff off the moor and off hard standing arrives faster than an old soakaway or field drain can take it, and once it silts up the water finds the lowest point instead — which is usually a doorway. A camera survey tells you whether it needs cleaning, repairing or replacing.
Do you empty septic tanks in Cornwall?
Yes. We empty septic tanks and treatment plants, and more usefully we can tell you why one keeps filling. Very often the tank is fine and the soakaway has failed; emptying it repeatedly treats the symptom and costs you a great deal over a season.
My holiday let keeps blocking — what can be done?
They are a common cause of trouble. Wet wipes, cooking fat and a much heavier occupancy than the system was built for will block an old run quickly. A planned jet clean between seasons costs a fraction of an emergency callout in the middle of a changeover, and we can set that up as a standing arrangement.
Is there a call-out charge?
No. There is no call-out charge anywhere we work. You get a price before we start, and it does not change because the job turned out to be at the end of a longer lane than expected.
AREAS WE COVER IN NORTH & EAST CORNWALL
PL15 — Launceston, Lifton, South Petherwin, Lezant, Altarnun, Five Lanes and the Tamar valley villages.
PL14 — Liskeard, Dobwalls, Menheniot, Pensilva, St Cleer, St Neot and Doublebois.
PL17 / PL18 — Callington, Gunnislake and Calstock.
PL30 to PL32 — Bodmin, Lostwithiel, Camelford, Delabole and the north coast villages.
EX23 — Bude, Stratton, Kilkhampton and the coast up to the Devon border.
This is a big area and the postcode list is a guide, not a fence. If you are somewhere between these towns — and out here most people are — ring us and we will tell you plainly whether we can reach you and when.
Nearby areas: over the Tamar, see Saltash and Plymouth. North east into Devon, see West Devon.
Why Choose Exjet in North Cornwall
Exjet has been working on drains and sewers across the South West since 1986. We are a South West firm with our own depot, our own tankers and our own engineers — not a booking service passing your job to whoever answers. That matters more the further you are from a city, because it decides whether anyone actually turns up.
No call-out charge, a clear price before we start, and a 24-hour emergency line answered by people who know the difference between Bodmin and Bodmin Moor.
Exjet has been a South West firm for forty years, founded in 1986 and still run by the same family. Read how it started.
Moorland, Coastal and Off-Mains Drainage
Launceston, Liskeard, Callington, Menheniot, Pensilva, St Cleer, Dobwalls, Camelford, Delabole, Bodmin, Lostwithiel, Bude, Stratton and the farms and hamlets in between.
Three things cause most of the work here. Surface water off the moor overwhelming soakaways and field drains that were never sized for it. Root ingress into old clay runs under mature hedgerows and long drives. And holiday lets — a cottage built for one family now taking six changeovers a month, with wipes and fat going into a system that has no idea what has hit it. All three are fixable; all three get worse if you keep rodding them and hoping.
what we do
This corner of Cornwall is granite, moorland and small market towns, and the drainage reflects it. Rainfall coming off Bodmin Moor is heavy and it arrives fast. A lot of the housing stock is slate-and-stone and considerably older than any drainage standard. Outside the towns, mains drainage largely stops and everything runs to a septic tank or a treatment plant.
We have been working these roads for years on the back of our Plymouth and Saltash work, and we cover the whole stretch — Launceston and the Tamar valley, Liskeard and the villages south of the moor, Callington, Camelford, Bodmin and out to Bude on the coast.
Blocked Drains Launceston, Liskeard & North Cornwall
Exjet covers Launceston, Liskeard, Callington, Camelford, Bude and the villages around Bodmin Moor — blocked drains cleared, CCTV surveys, no-dig repairs and septic tank work, with a genuine 24-hour callout.