See it for yourself
Camera inspections & line locating
A camera turns an estimate based on a guess into a repair based on a picture. It regularly turns a proposed full line replacement into a single spot repair.
A self-leveling camera head is pushed through the line on a semi-rigid rod, sending back a live picture of the inside of your pipe. We watch the whole run with you rather than disappearing to the truck and reporting back, and you keep the footage afterward. It is your pipe and it should be your evidence.
A transmitter in the camera head lets us locate it from above ground with a receiver. That means we can tell you the fault is thirty-four feet out at a depth of five feet and put a flag in the grass directly over it. The difference between that and digging to find a problem is measured in whole days and a lawn.
Worth doing when
- A line has blocked twice in the same year
- Anyone has quoted you excavation or replacement
- You are buying a house built before 1985
- Cabling keeps working but never lasts
- You want to know whether jetting is safe on that pipe
You keep
- The recorded video of the full run
- A written summary of what we saw and where
- Depth and position marked on the ground
- A straight recommendation, including doing nothing
Buying a house?
On a mid-century Jacksonville house with original cast iron, a camera run on the main line is the cheapest inspection you will buy and occasionally the most valuable. A standard home inspection does not go down the drain.
Straight answers
Questions about camera inspections
Can you tell exactly where the problem is?
Yes. The camera head transmits a signal we track from the surface, so we mark position and depth on the ground rather than estimating from the length of rod fed in. That is what keeps a repair to a small dig.
Do I get to see the footage?
You watch it live with us and you keep a copy. If someone has quoted you a replacement, that footage is the thing that lets you check the quote against the pipe.
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