SK8 · 4 miles from base
Blocked Drains in Cheadle Hulme
Drain unblocking, camera surveys and drain repairs across Cheadle Hulme. Independent engineer, twenty years on these drains, fixed prices agreed up front.
Same day in most cases — we are four miles up the road.
Local knowledge
Drainage in Cheadle Hulme
Cheadle Hulme is dominated by interwar and post-war housing on generous plots, and the plot size is the drainage story. Rear manholes sit a long way from the house, which means long private runs under lawns and patios that nobody has looked at since they were laid.
Two things follow from that. First, by the time a blockage shows up indoors it has usually been building for a while, because there is a lot of pipe to fill. Second — and this is the one that costs people money — a great many of those runs have been built over. Conservatories, extensions and block-paved drives across the back of the house are common here, and when the damaged section turns out to be under a new patio, no-dig lining stops being a preference and becomes the only sensible option.
Case study
A job in Cheadle Hulme
- The problem
- Sewage surfacing at the rear manhole after every heavy shower. The owner had been told by another firm that the whole run needed digging up and relaying, and that the new block paving would have to come up with it.
- What the camera found
- Survey showed the run itself was sound. The fault was a single displaced joint about two metres before the boundary chamber, holding water back and catching everything that came down.
- The fix
- One patch liner across the joint, installed through the existing manhole. The paving never came up. It cost a fraction of the excavation quote.
What we do in Cheadle Hulme
If the same drain in your Cheadle Hulme 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 Hulme — common questions
Can you fix a drain under a patio without lifting it?
Usually, yes. Patch lining and full relining are both installed through an existing manhole or access point, so the damaged section is repaired in place. That is the whole reason no-dig repair exists. It will not work on a fully collapsed pipe — we will tell you straight if that is what the camera shows.
Who is responsible for the drain — me or United Utilities?
Roughly: the pipework inside your boundary that only serves your property is yours. Once it joins a pipe shared with a neighbour, or crosses your boundary, it is almost always United Utilities' — that changed in 2011 and a lot of people in Cheadle Hulme still do not know it. If we find the blockage is on their side we will tell you, and you should not be paying us to clear it.
What does it cost to unblock a drain?
A fixed price, agreed on the phone or after you send us the details, before anyone sets off — and no call-out fee either way. The full list is on our prices page, along with the things that genuinely make a job cost more, which most drainage firms will not publish.
Blocked drain in Cheadle Hulme?
We cover SK8 and the streets around them — 4 miles from base.