SK6 · 5 miles from base
Blocked Drains in Romiley
Drain unblocking, camera surveys and no-dig repairs across Romiley and SK6. The engineer you speak to is the one who turns up, and the price is agreed before he does.
Same day in most cases.
Local knowledge
Drainage in Romiley
Romiley is a genuine mix — Victorian and Edwardian around the village and the station, a lot of post-war and 1960s–70s estate housing spreading out from it, and semi-rural properties towards Chadkirk and the canal. Each brings its own drainage, so there is no single Romiley problem the way there is a Bramhall one.
The common thread is water from outside the property. The ground here drains towards the Goyt and there are watercourses and culverted brooks running under and between the older streets, some of them barely on any map. When a Romiley drain floods in wet weather and runs clean in dry, the cause is very often surface water entering the foul system rather than anything wrong with the foul system itself — a broken gully, a wrongly connected downpipe, or groundwater coming in through a cracked section. Jetting it will not help. Finding it will.
Typical job
The kind of job we see in Romiley
- The problem
- Standing water in a rear chamber that never quite clears, and a smell in the garden through the summer, with nothing wrong indoors at all. The absence of an indoor blockage is the clue rather than a reassurance.
- What the camera usually finds
- A run that has dropped over a few metres and now holds water permanently. That is ground movement rather than a blockage, which is why nothing indoors is affected and why rodding never finds anything to hit.
- How it gets fixed
- Reline the affected section to restore a consistent fall and seal the joints, working through the existing chambers. The standing water and the smell go together, because they were always the same fault.
What we do in Romiley
If the same drain in your Romiley 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.
Romiley — common questions
There is no blockage but the drain smells. What is that?
Usually a section holding water — a dropped or damaged run where waste sits instead of flowing away — or a dry or damaged trap. Neither shows up as a blockage, and neither is fixed by rodding. A camera survey finds it in half an hour.
Do you cover Chadkirk and the outlying properties?
Yes, all of SK6. Some of the outlying properties are on private systems rather than mains drainage, which is a different job — tell us when you ring and we will bring the right kit.
How do you find where rainwater is getting into the foul drain?
Camera first, then dye. The camera shows water entering where it should not — a wrongly connected downpipe, a broken gully, groundwater coming through a cracked section — and dye testing from above confirms which pipe is feeding it. It matters here because the ground drains towards the Goyt and there are culverted brooks running under and between the older streets, some barely on any map. A Romiley drain that floods in the wet and runs clean in the dry is usually taking water from outside the property, and disconnecting it is a much smaller job than repairing a pipe that was never broken.
Wondering whose drain it is, or what it costs? Both are answered here.
Blocked drain in Romiley?
We cover SK6 and the streets around them — 5 miles from base.