SK3 · 1 mile from base
Blocked Drains in Edgeley
Blocked drains cleared across Edgeley and SK3, usually within the hour. Some of the oldest drainage in Stockport, and the town we can reach fastest.
Often within the hour — Edgeley is on our doorstep.
Local knowledge
Drainage in Edgeley
Edgeley has some of the oldest housing stock in the borough: dense Victorian terraces, tightly packed, with drainage that has been in the ground since the nineteenth century. Shared laterals running behind the rows are the norm rather than the exception, and so is a century and a half of settlement through pipe that was never designed to move.
The practical consequences are open joints, dropped sections and root ingress from whatever is growing in the yards and entries. Access is the other Edgeley factor — narrow streets, limited parking and rear chambers you cannot drive to. It affects nothing about the price when you ring us, but it is a large part of why some of the national outfits are slow to get to SK3, and why a local engineer with a van that fits down the street is a practical advantage rather than just a nicer story.
Case study
A job in Edgeley
- The problem
- A Victorian terrace with a WC and kitchen sink both backing up on the same day, and a neighbour reporting the same thing an hour later.
- What the camera found
- A single blockage on the shared rear lateral, made up of wipes and fat, sitting against a dropped joint that had been quietly catching debris for years.
- The fix
- Cleared the same afternoon so both houses were usable that night, then cameraed the run and showed both owners the dropped joint. Because it is a shared lateral, the structural repair sits with United Utilities — they got the footage and the report to send on, and were not charged for a repair that was not theirs to buy.
What we do in Edgeley
If the same drain in your Edgeley 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.
Edgeley — common questions
How quickly can you get to Edgeley?
Faster than anywhere else we cover — it is about a mile from base, so an emergency call-out here is often within the hour rather than the day.
The whole row is blocked, not just my house. What now?
That is the shared lateral, and it is United Utilities' responsibility, not yours. We can clear it to get everyone running and give you the survey footage to send them for the permanent repair. You should not be paying to replace a pipe that serves the street.
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 Edgeley 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.
Blocked drain in Edgeley?
We cover SK3 and the streets around them — 1 mile from base.