We're on a shared sewer with next door and neither of us knows who's responsible for fixing it. What do we do?

Shared sewers that were adopted before 2011 are usually Severn Trent's responsibility now, not yours. We can camera the drain and pinpoint exactly where the fault is, which tells you whether it's on your private run, your neighbour's, or on an adopted section. That saves a lot of argument and means you're not paying to fix something that's Severn Trent's job.

Drainage · Tamworth · B77

A Tamworth drainage engineer,
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Local Sutton Coldfield drainage engineers covering Tamworth. Blocked drains, high-pressure jetting, CCTV surveys and drain repairs, with a clear price agreed before we lift a cover.

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Drainage engineer clearing a blocked drain

High-pressure jetting & CCTV

Home AreasTamworth

B77~7 miles from town centre20-year guarantee on remedial work

Tamworth sits about 7 miles north-east of central Sutton Coldfield in the B77 postcode, and the housing mix is about as varied as you'll find anywhere we cover. You've got older terraces and semis close to the town centre, a lot of 1970s and 1980s council-built and privately-built estates spreading out from there, and newer cul-de-sac developments on the fringes. We get called out regularly for blocked drains, collapsed clay runs, and root ingress on the older streets, plus the usual slow-draining gullies on the newer builds.

We come in via the A4091 or the A51 depending on where exactly you are in Tamworth. The older parts of town have clay pipework that's been down since the 1950s or earlier, and the bigger trees on some of those established residential roads have had decades to work roots into pipe joints. Low-lying ground near the River Tame corridor means some streets genuinely do flood after heavy rain rather than just getting soggy, and shared sewer arrangements in the denser terraced areas make it harder to isolate exactly whose problem it is. Tamworth has more clay-pipe collapses per call-out than most places we cover.

Most common Tamworth jobs

Clearing root-blocked clay drains on older terraced streets near the town centre
CCTV surveys to find collapsed sections under 1970s estate driveways
Drain jetting after slow-draining gullies back up following heavy rain
Shared sewer disputes between neighbours, working out which run is blocked and where
Relining deteriorated clay pipes without digging up garden paths
Emergency call-outs when low-lying properties flood after the River Tame rises

Services we run from Tamworth

Emergency unblocking Water jetting CCTV surveys Blocked drains Drain repairs Roots & scale Commercial drainage

Blocked drain, overflow, or backing up?

Talk to a Sutton Coldfield drainage engineer now. A clear price before we start.

Tell us what's blocked or backing up, and we'll give you a clear price for the likely job, no call-out fee, plus a realistic ETA, before we hang up.

0121 816 1830 Or request a callback

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Tamworth FAQ

In Tamworth, especially on streets close to the Tame valley, it's often both. A partial blockage or a slightly collapsed pipe that copes fine day-to-day can overwhelm completely when there's a surge of surface water. We'll camera the run to check the pipe condition first, because jetting alone won't fix a structural problem.