0800 772 33 99 — we cover WS11 and WS12 from our base in Castlecroft.

Cannock is newer than most of the places we work, and that changes what goes wrong. Far less Victorian clay, far more 1960s-onwards pipework – which fails in its own way rather than simply wearing out.

Ring us and we will tell you when we can get to you. You speak to the people doing the work.

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How we clear it

Jetting rather than rods, and at a pressure chosen for the material. A good deal of Cannock drainage is plastic or pitch fibre rather than clay, and the two want handling differently.

How high-pressure drain jetting works

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.

A coalfield town where the coal came out from under it. Cannock Chase was one of the major Staffordshire coalfields, worked deep and shallow until the 1990s. Ground movement over old workings pulls pipe joints apart, and around Hednesford, Chadsmoor and Heath Hayes it is the first thing we would expect to find behind a recurring blockage.

Sandy, free-draining ground. Much of the district sits on sandstone and pebble beds. Soakaways work well here – but the same permeability means fine material washes out through a defective joint over years, leaving a void for the pipe to settle into. A small defect on this ground gets worse faster than it would on clay.

Built largely since 1960. Cannock expanded through exactly the decades when pitch fibre was standard, and has kept expanding since with PVC. Pitch fibre deforms rather than cracks, so the bore closes gradually and blockages become steadily more frequent. Newer PVC estates fail differently – joints pulled at installation, builders’ debris, too little fall – and those faults are often somebody else’s to put right.

A lot of very recent housing. New estates around Heath Hayes, Norton Canes and Bridgtown regularly turn up construction debris in the runs. It is worth knowing that before a warranty expires.

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.

If it keeps happening

A drain that blocks repeatedly has a structural cause, and clearing it again treats the symptom. We can put a camera down the same run while we are on site — see CCTV drain surveys in Cannock.

Who pays

Shared drainage and anything past your boundary transferred to Severn Trent in 2011. On the newer estates, where runs are frequently shared between several houses, this catches people out – so we will tell you whose problem it is before anything is invoiced.

South Staffs Water supplies Cannock’s water but not its sewerage.

Areas we cover

Bridgtown, Cannock town centre, Cannock Wood, Chadsmoor, Chase Terrace, Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Heath Hayes, Hednesford, Norton Canes, Wimblebury and Wyrley — WS11 and WS12.

Same-day reporting in Cannock

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

The survey is not much use to you sitting on a memory card.

You get the graded report, the coded observations, the still images and the site plan back the same day, which is usually what makes it worth booking in the first place – particularly when it is holding up a purchase or an application.

Reading a survey of your Cannock drainage

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

CCTV view along a sound clay drain, the bore clear and the walls unobstructed

Reports confuse people because they mix two kinds of entry and only one is a problem.

Observations describe what is there – a junction, a chamber, a change of pipe material, the water level. In our surveys these outnumber defects by roughly three to one, and a tidy system with nothing wrong still generates a page of them.

Defects describe something wrong, and carry a severity. It is the severity, not the presence of a code, that matters.

Across every section we have graded, two thirds came back at the top grade. A long report is not automatically bad news.

Getting to the 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.

Most of the variability in a drainage job is access rather than the drain itself.

Older Cannock housing tends to mean shared entries, rear yards without vehicle access, and chambers that have been built over or landscaped out of sight. None of it is a problem

it is simply the difference between a short visit and a longer one, and it is the

part we would rather discuss on the phone than discover on arrival.

Getting to you

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.

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.

Common questions

How quickly can you get here? Ring us and we will give you a realistic time before you commit to anything. The variable is what is already booked in, not the distance.

What will it cost? We will give you a price on the phone before we come out, so there are no surprises when we arrive.