Winnersh Triangle, on the town’s north-western edge in RG41, is a 1.3 million sq ft mixed-use business park with its own railway station and 90 acres of green space, and every acre of it drains somewhere. A park on that scale already runs its building services on a planned cycle, and so do the town’s other multi-site owners. Mulberry Business Park on Fishponds Road adds offices within walking distance of Wokingham station. The council-owned Carnival Hub puts swimming pools, a four-court sports hall that converts to a 400-seat performance space, and a library on one site. Wokingham Borough Council and its housing companies, Loddon Homes and Berry Brook Homes, let close to 2,800 homes between them. A drainage maintenance contract puts the drains on the same footing as the lifts and the fire alarms.
Wokingham’s multi-site premises, and what they drain
On a business park the drainage that gets forgotten is the estate’s, not the buildings’. Each block’s stacks are listed per building, but the schedule’s long tail is outside: car-park gullies by the hundred, linear channels at ramp thresholds and loading doors, the surface-water network that drains landscaped grounds and, on a park with 90 acres of green space, the long runs that carry rain from lawns and planting to the outfall. Those external assets are given their own frequency and their own quiet window, and when the first year’s reports show one gully group silting faster than the rest the interval is tightened on evidence.
Visits around the working week
A business park’s car-park gullies are easiest to reach early on a weekday or on a Sunday, before the spaces fill, and the same slot is kept year after year, so the visit becomes routine rather than interruption. Because the park’s own security and estates teams need to know when a van will be on the estate, the dates for the year are issued with the schedule rather than agreed visit by visit.
The record each visit adds
Pictures of each asset, taken before and after, and whatever the camera showed; a Waste Transfer Note whenever grease or silt is removed, valid because TrueFlow Ltd is an Upper Tier registered waste carrier. Each report is short enough to be read and specific enough to be acted on: asset, condition, action taken, next visit due. The way an FM team uses that record alongside the lift, fire and air-handling logs is described on the page for offices and facilities management.
Pricing shown item by item
A Wokingham proposal is itemised rather than bundled: against each asset sits its rate and its visits, and the products are totalled into a yearly figure, or one per visit, confirmed in writing before signature. How the rates themselves are set is explained on the contracts page; the first look round the premises carries no fee. The work is insured and guaranteed for six months; grease trap emptying and other one-off jobs for Wokingham businesses are on the commercial drainage in Wokingham page.
Wokingham contract questions
Is a contract worthwhile for a small practice with one washroom?
Often not as a full schedule, and it is better to say so than to sell one. A two-partner office with a single washroom and no kitchen may need nothing more than an annual gully clean and a camera pass every few years, which can be booked as one-off visits at the published rates. A contract starts to pay when there are several assets, a kitchen, or a history of repeat blockages.
Can the first visit be split across two evenings for a park with several blocks?
Yes. On a multi-block park the baseline visit is usually split by estate and by building anyway: the external gullies and runs on one evening, when the car parks are empty, and the stacks inside the blocks on another, when keyholders are available. Each part is reported as it is done, and the schedule is issued once the whole site has been seen.
What does the first visit under a new contract involve?
More than the later ones. The first attendance sets the baseline: every listed asset is cleaned, the main runs are put through the camera, chambers and gullies are located and numbered, and the resulting report becomes the reference the following visits are compared against. Later visits are shorter because the engineer knows where everything is and what it looked like last time.
Walked first, then priced
To have a schedule priced, call 0808 175 7440 or leave the premises’ details. Nothing is charged for the inspection, and the proposal shows every asset, interval and rate so the figure explains itself. The town’s homes are covered on the Wokingham page.