SK8 · 3 miles from base
Blocked Drains in Cheadle
Blocked drains, CCTV surveys and no-dig repairs across Cheadle and the SK8 postcode. You ring the engineer who turns up — not someone who sells your job on — and the price is fixed before anyone sets off.
Usually with you the same day. Cheadle is about ten minutes from base.
Local knowledge
Drainage in Cheadle
Cheadle is two kinds of drainage problem in one postcode. The older core around the village and Massie Street is Victorian, with clay laterals that have had a century of ground movement through them — the joints open, roots find the gap, and what starts as a slow sink ends as a collapsed section.
North of the village the ground falls away towards the Micker Brook and the Mersey flood plain, and that matters more than people expect. Drainage runs are shallower and flatter there, so they silt up rather than scour themselves clean, and in heavy rain the surface water system backs up before the foul one does. If your gully floods every winter but the drain runs fine in August, that is what you are looking at, and jetting it in August will not tell you anything.
Typical job
The kind of job we see in Cheadle
- The problem
- Interwar semis where the downstairs toilet and the kitchen sink both run slow, clear when they are rodded, and are back to the same thing a month or two later. Repeat rodding is the tell: something is catching debris rather than a one-off blockage sitting waiting to be pushed through.
- What the camera usually finds
- The fault is usually eight to twelve metres out, under the side path or the driveway — an open joint in the clay lateral with fine root through it, and water standing behind it because the section has dropped.
- How it gets fixed
- Cut the roots out, jet the line back to full bore, then patch line the damaged section through the existing rear access. No digging and no lifting the path, and it ends the cycle rather than buying another six weeks.
What we do in Cheadle
If the same drain in your Cheadle property blocks two or three times a year, jetting is not the answer — the pipe itself is damaged. A camera survey will tell you which, and lining repairs it without digging.
Cheadle — common questions
Do you cover all of Cheadle?
All of SK8 — the village, Cheadle Heath, Cheadle Hulme and out towards Gatley. If you are on the edge of the postcode and not sure, ring and ask.
My gully floods every winter but the drain is fine all summer. Why?
That pattern is usually surface water rather than a blockage. North of the village the ground falls towards the Micker Brook and the runs are shallow and flat, so they silt up instead of scouring themselves clean, and in sustained rain the surface water system surcharges before the foul one does. Jetting it in August tells you nothing, because in August there is nothing wrong. It wants looking at in the wet, which is when we would rather come.
The house is Victorian and the drain has started running slow. Does it need replacing?
Very often not. Around the village and Massie Street the laterals are clay that has had a century of ground movement through it, and what that produces is open joints and dropped sections rather than a pipe that has failed along its length. An open joint is a patch liner through an existing access point. Get it on camera before anyone quotes you for a new run.
Wondering whose drain it is, or what it costs? Both are answered here.
Blocked drain in Cheadle?
We cover SK8 and the streets around them — 3 miles from base.