We survey across WS11 and WS12 – Cannock, Bridgtown, Chadsmoor, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Norton Canes, Great Wyrley, Cheslyn Hay and Chase Terrace.

A CCTV drain survey puts a camera through your drainage and produces a record of what is actually there: every run, every junction, every defect, positioned to the centimetre and coded to the industry standard.

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What you get

On newer property the question is usually how well the drainage was laid, not how old it is. Every section is graded, every defect coded to MSCC and positioned in metres, with a site plan and the full video. The report comes back the same day, by NADC-certified surveyors.

What a CCTV drain survey covers

Why people here ask for a survey

A new-build handover or warranty question. Drainage laid during construction is not always laid correctly, and while a warranty still runs the fault may be someone else’s to put right.

Building over or near a drain. Extensions, conservatories and garden rooms frequently sit over a shared lateral or a public sewer. Severn Trent will want the position, depth and condition of the pipe before agreeing a build-over.

All the reasons a CCTV survey gets commissioned

Why drains fail in Cannock

Ground conditions decide what fails in a drain and how often, and they vary street by street. Here is what we are working with.

Mining, and what it left. The Cannock Chase coalfield was worked until the 1990s. Ground that has settled over old workings takes drainage with it, and displaced joints follow. Around Hednesford, Chadsmoor and Heath Hayes this is the single most likely structural finding.

Sandstone and pebble beds. Free-draining ground makes soakaways viable and makes small defects worse: fines migrate out through an open joint, a void forms, and the pipe drops further. Acting early is worth more here than it would be elsewhere.

A young housing stock, which is not the same as a sound one. Cannock is mostly post-1960, so surveys here turn up pitch fibre on the older estates and construction defects on the newer ones – pulled joints, debris left in the pipe, insufficient fall. Both are worth finding before you commit to a purchase, and the second is often still someone else’s liability.

That is the reason a repeat blockage here is worth looking at properly rather than clearing again – the cause is usually structural and it is usually visible.

Who owns the drain

Since the 2011 private sewer transfer, Severn Trent owns shared drainage and everything beyond your boundary. On the newer estates, shared runs are common enough that establishing the boundary is a routine part of what a survey answers.

South Staffs Water supplies the water here but not the sewerage.

A survey in Cannock

A WS12 property at Hednesford – six separate runs surveyed, graded A, with no structural defects found.

Worth saying plainly: a clean survey is a real outcome, not a wasted fee. Six runs on a coalfield town with no displaced joints is a good result, and the recording proves it. We do not carry out repairs or excavation, so we have no reason to find work that isn’t there.

Read the Hednesford case study

If it keeps blocking in Cannock

In Cannock – WS11 and WS12 – this is one of the questions we are asked most, and the answer is usually the same across Bridgtown and Cannock town centre.

CCTV view inside a drain showing debris resting in the bottom of the pipe, partly obstructing the bore

A drain that has blocked twice in a season is telling you something structural, and clearing it a third time treats the symptom.

Rodding punches a hole through. Flow returns and the water goes away, but a 100 mm pipe with a 30 mm channel rodded through it is carrying a fraction of its capacity, with the rest of the obstruction still sitting there.

Jetting works on the whole bore. The nozzle scours the pipe wall as it is drawn back, follows bends that rods will not, and takes the run back towards its actual diameter.

Then put a camera down the same run. Standing water hides everything, so the survey is worth doing once the pipe is clear – which is why we do both in one visit.

Getting to you

What holds for Bridgtown and Cannock town centre holds across the rest of Cannock. WS11 and WS12 are the postcode districts involved.

We work out of Castlecroft in Wolverhampton, and Cannock is close enough that the constraint on timing is the diary rather than the drive.

Ring and we will give you a straight answer on when, and a price before we set off.

Build over agreements around Cannock

Cannock covers a fair spread of housing, from Bridgtown, Cannock town centre, Cannock Wood, and this applies to most of it.

A survey before the drawings are finished is considerably cheaper than a diversion after them.

You cannot normally build over an inspection chamber – access has to be maintained. The options are to redesign around it, relocate it, or divert the run under Section 185 of the Water Industry Act 1991, which obliges the undertaker to divert a sewer where it is reasonably practicable, at the applicant’s cost.

In several of the properties we have surveyed, chambers had been buried by previous landscaping. A chamber nobody knows about is the one that stops a build, so the survey records them explicitly.

We do not carry out diversions or excavation. We produce the plan and the graded report that goes with the application.

Why roots keep finding the same drain

Around Bridgtown, Cannock town centre, Cannock Wood the housing is old enough for this to matter, and WS11 and WS12 is where we see it most.

If roots have been cleared from a Cannock drain once and returned, nothing has gone wrong – that is simply what happens when the way in is still open.

Roots enter through an existing defect: an open or displaced joint, a crack, a break. Cutting them out removes the mass but leaves the opening, and the same tree is still looking for the same water.

The useful question is therefore not how to kill the roots but where they are getting in, at what distance along the run, and whether that length is even yours – which is a camera and a plan, not another clearing.

Commercial and landlord work around Cannock

We cover WS11 and WS12, and this comes up often enough on Cannock property to be worth setting out properly. Bridgtown and Cannock town centre see it as much as anywhere.

The report matters more on commercial work than domestic, because somebody else usually has to be satisfied by it – a landlord, a managing agent, an insurer or an incoming tenant.

Every section graded, every defect coded to MSCC and positioned in metres, a plan of the system and the full recording. That is a document you can hand over rather than a verbal account of what somebody saw.

Planned rather than reactive is the cheaper pattern on a Cannock commercial site: a survey before a lease event, a jetting visit before the season that always causes trouble, rather than an emergency at the worst moment.

Recently built property in Cannock

We survey a good deal of newer housing, and the reason is usually a warranty deadline rather than a blockage.

Drainage laid during construction is not always laid correctly, and the problems tend to surface once the ground has settled – by which time the question is whether it is still covered. A graded report with each observation positioned in metres is what makes that conversation possible.

Common questions

The house is only a few years old — do I need a survey? Often more than you would for an older one. Construction defects are common, and while a warranty still runs they may be someone else’s to put right.