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.
Case study
A job in Romiley
- The problem
- Standing water in the rear chamber that never quite cleared, and a smell in the garden through the summer. No blockage indoors at all.
- What the camera found
- Survey found the run had dropped over about three metres, leaving a section holding water permanently. Ground movement, not a blockage — which is why nothing indoors was affected and rodding had never found anything.
- The fix
- Relined the affected section to restore a consistent fall and seal the joints, working through the existing chambers. The standing water and the smell both went with it.
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.
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 Romiley 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 Romiley?
We cover SK6 and the streets around them — 5 miles from base.