SK5 · 2 miles from base
Blocked Drains in Reddish
Blocked drains and drain repairs across Reddish and SK5. Dense terraced streets, shared back-entry drainage, and twenty years of knowing whose pipe is whose.
Often within the hour. Reddish is the closest town to base.
Local knowledge
Drainage in Reddish
Reddish is terraced housing built for the mills, and the drainage was laid the way terraced drainage always was: one shared lateral running the length of the back entry, with every house on the row connected into it. That single fact explains most of what goes wrong here.
It means a blockage is frequently not yours. It also means it is frequently not your bill — a pipe serving more than one property became United Utilities' responsibility in 2011, and a great many people in SK5 are still paying private firms to clear drains that are not theirs to pay for. We will camera it and tell you whose it is before we quote to fix anything. The other local factor is the age of the clay itself: this stock is well over a century old, and open joints and root ingress from the entries and back yards are routine rather than exceptional.
Case study
A job in Reddish
- The problem
- Foul water surfacing in the back entry between two terraced rows, affecting several houses. One owner had already been quoted for a full replacement of their own back drain.
- What the camera found
- The shared lateral was blocked well downstream of every one of the affected properties, with a partial collapse in a section of old clay under the entry itself.
- The fix
- Jetted what could be cleared to get the row draining again the same afternoon, then produced a full survey report showing the collapse and its position. That went to United Utilities as the responsible party for the shared run. The owner did not pay for a replacement drain, because they never needed one.
What we do in Reddish
If the same drain in your Reddish 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.
Reddish — common questions
It is a shared back-entry drain — am I liable?
Almost certainly not. Since 2011 pipework serving more than one property has been United Utilities' responsibility, and nearly every back-entry lateral in Reddish is exactly that. We will confirm it on camera and give you the report to send them.
Can you get to a drain under the back entry?
Yes. Jetting and camera work are done through the existing chambers, and lining repairs go in the same way — no need to break up the entry, which matters when it is not your land to break up.
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 Reddish?
We cover SK5 and the streets around them — 2 miles from base.