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Planned work · Manchester · from £1,200 per connection

New Drain Installation in Manchester

Extensions, garden rooms, new bathrooms and outbuildings all need waste to go somewhere lawful.

New drain installation in Manchester
No call-out feeNo night or weekend surchargeFixed price before we start12-month workmanship guarantee

We design, dig, lay and connect new runs with the falls right and the paperwork done.

What you get

New drain installation in Manchester: what the price includes

  • 01
    Design and Building Control

    Falls, access points and materials specified to Part H, with inspections booked and passed.

  • 02
    Connections to existing runs

    New chambers cut into live runs without flooding anything, sequencing matters and we've done it before.

  • 03
    Water company approvals

    Building near or over a public sewer needs a build-over agreement, we handle the application before anyone digs.

  • 04
    Soakaways and surface water

    Rainwater handled lawfully, soakaway sizing and percolation tests included where needed.

  • 05
    Built to Approved Document H and signed off

    Falls, bedding, inspection access at every change of direction, and connections made properly at the chamber. New drainage is inspected by building control, and work that was never notified is a problem that surfaces at the point of sale rather than at the point of building.

What this means in Greater Manchester

Local conditions we work around

Manchester drainage is Victorian industrial infrastructure serving housing built for mill workers, and the pattern shows. Terraces frequently share rear drainage runs, so a blockage is often the neighbour's rather than yours and the first job is establishing whose it is before anyone gets a bill. The original salt-glazed clay is still in the ground across much of the city, which means displaced joints and root intrusion, and the hillside districts add long shallow runs that silt up.

Where we do this in Manchester

Covered across Greater Manchester

Same published rate card and the same twelve-month workmanship guarantee everywhere below, there is no postcode loading. Each area has its own page with an arrival time taken from our job records rather than chosen for a website.

Straight answers

New drain installation in Manchester, your questions

What does a new drain connection cost?
From £1,200 for a straightforward new connection to an accessible run. Depth, distance and surfaces move it, the survey fixes the number before work starts.
Do I need permission to connect to the sewer?
Connecting to a public sewer needs the water company's approval, and building within three metres of one needs a build-over agreement. Skipping this surfaces at conveyancing, expensively. We do the paperwork as standard.
Can you do the groundwork too?
Yes, excavation, bedding, laying, backfill and reinstatement as one contract, one guarantee.
Can I connect to the existing drain myself?
You should not. An unauthorised connection into a public sewer is an offence, and a badly formed junction into a private run causes blockages directly above it for the next twenty years. Connections need forming properly and, where they are into a public sewer, agreeing with the water company.
Do I need a build-over agreement?
If you are building over or within three metres of a public sewer, yes, and it is your water company that grants it, not the council. We identify it at the survey, because discovering it after the foundations are in is expensive.
Foul and surface water together?
Only where the existing system is genuinely combined, which much of inner Manchester is. New build almost always requires separate systems, with surface water to a soakaway or a surface water sewer. Getting it wrong is the most common drainage failure on extensions.
Is Manchester drainage different?
It is Victorian industrial infrastructure serving housing built for mill workers, and it shows. Terraces frequently share rear drainage runs, so a blockage is often the neighbour's rather than yours and the first job is establishing whose it is before anyone gets a bill. Original salt-glazed clay is still in the ground across much of the city, and the hillside districts add long shallow runs that silt.
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