Company warns of drainage "timebomb"
Buildings erected in the second half of the 20th century are facing a potential "drainage disaster" due to poor pipe construction, according to a drainage inspection company.
Auger has said that cheap materials popular during the building boom of the post-war period and into the 1970s are to blame for an increasing number of collapsed drainage systems. The company
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