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Whitehouse Common sits in the B72 postcode, roughly three miles from central Sutton Coldfield, and it's a mixed residential area with a lot of 1960s and 1970s semi-detached houses alongside some older detached properties on larger plots. You've got families who've been here for decades next to newer owners who bought recently and inherited whatever drainage the previous owners left behind. We get called out regularly for blocked drains, slow-emptying gullies and the kind of root ingress that builds up quietly over years.

Coming in from Sutton Coldfield we typically approach via Whitehouse Common Road, passing the open green spaces that give the area its name. The housing stock from the 1960s and 1970s means a lot of the original clay pipework is still in the ground, with push-fit joints that tree roots find very easy to exploit. Larger plots mean more mature trees, and those roots are the single biggest recurring problem we see here. There are also shared sewer arrangements on several roads that catch people off guard when a blockage turns out to be a neighbour's problem too.

Most common Whitehouse Common jobs

• Clearing root ingress from clay drains on properties with large mature garden trees
• CCTV surveys on 1960s pipework for buyers before they complete on a purchase
• Blocked outside gullies on driveways and patios, often compacted with silt and leaf debris
• Tracing shared sewer responsibilities when two or more households are affected by the same blockage
• Relining cracked clay joints without digging up established gardens
• Slow-draining kitchen and bathroom stacks in semis where the original soil pipe has partially collapsed

Services we run from Whitehouse Common